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Is Facebook’s Social Graph Beacon 2.0?

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With its incredible growth (200 million to 400 million users in the last 12 months), and announcement at its April 21 F8 developer conference of new capabilities, Facebook seems to have become, as Chris O’Brien of the San Jose Mercury News says, “the most important company on the Web.”. All of this raises interesting privacy concerns.

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The Power of Google+: Privacy "Circles" the Entire Experience

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Facebook has always had one strength that no other social network (other than perhaps FriendFeed ) has seemed to fully get: The fact that you could add friends to lists, and target your updates so only those lists, and specific people you chose, can see the updates you post. With Facebook, the friendship is always 2-way.

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Facebook to Google+: "Hey Look, We Have This Too - It's Right Here!"

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Facebook announced an expected update to its service today that is scheduled to be released on Thursday. I wrote about the release of Facebook Friend Lists back in 2008 when Jason Alba and myself launched my first book, I'm on Facebook--Now What??? It is basically just an interface change from the functionality they had before.

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Upcoming social media events in DC

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Not one, but two events that I’d love to attend are just around the corner– The Social Graph Clinic DC , and What’s Next DC. The Social Graph Clinic DC. Looking at the speakers, I’d love to hear from Stephanie Schierholz, the social media manager for NASA–what a cool job!

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"Follow" Networks and The Creep Factor - Why It Isn't a Facebook Play

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It's going to be a really tough battle for Google to get passed this without any sort of 2-way friend relationship like Facebook if they want a mass audience. Marshall Kirkpatrick had a great post where he mentioned that Google+ could be Google's move to try and make Facebook a more open environment. It's simply too risky.

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Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook

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It's hard to imagine that there is a Facebook killer somewhere around the next tech innovation, but there probably is. It just seemed so much easier and simpler than the more complex neediness of Facebook. It just seemed so much easier and simpler than the more complex neediness of Facebook. Canada, UK, etc.). We're there.

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Google+ Just Beat Facebook to the Future

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Facebook's entire purpose has been to get to this moment. They've already been rumored to be working on a much stronger mobile strategy, bringing Facebook's powerful platform to the apps you use on the mobile devices you carry, to every place you go. However, it seems in one fell swoop Google just beat Facebook to their own game.

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