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Is Facebook’s Social Graph Beacon 2.0?

Socialized

The most far reaching announcement is the introduction of what is called the Social Graph API, a convention that allows developers (anyone with a Web site or a blog) to easily embed “Like” buttons and other functions on their sites, allowing users to “bring” their Faceboook identities wherever they go on the Web, outside of Facebook’s walled garden.

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

Stay N' Alive

Not just that, but the default privacy setting on Google+ is nothing. In a sense, this puts Google Circles at a greater risk to putting Twitter out of business, as it takes the Twitter follow model and lists, and adds privacy settings to it, using those lists to make that happen. It's that simple.

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Upcoming social media events in DC

SocialFish

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

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Soon after, Facebook made it possible to finely target posts to just those audiences - I use this feature often, although up until this Thursday, it has been buried under an interface that didn't seem to put privacy and the realization of privacy at the forefront of the experience. This in and of itself is a very big change.

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What Websites Are You the One True Fan of?

Justin Levy

The service leverages your Twitter social graph so there’s no need to go out and seek followers all over again, which is always an annoying feature of many new social networks. One concern that has continually been brought up with location-based services is privacy.

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

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It's a different type of social graph than Facebook's. In the end, yes, this is a battle for your social graph. I do think there are different types of social graphs though, and the battle right now is over the less personalized graph and the more public information.

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The Social/Anti-Social Network

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In tinkering with Google + and listening to what some of the cool kids have to say about it online, it's very clear that the majority of people see Google + almost like an online social networking "do-over!" the most common response is the ability to segment the social graph (Google + calls them, "circles").