Tantek moderated and asked for comments via Twitter “@supernova2008″ and showing the results on S-u-m-m-i-z-e.

Twitter was allowing summize to summarize all hash tagged tweets. Twitter wins.

Am citing this as a prime example of ‘backfiring forward’ in my book, “What They Dont Teach You At Stanford Business School”

@larrychiang or text me @650-283-8008

Just another reason why I keep my facebook activities to a minimum.

What makes Facebook different than any other social network is the ability to customize those very things you bring up.

Don’t want you picture shown to random people? Turn it off in your privacy controls. Just as if you were to walk down Market St., you cannot opt-out of random people seeing your face — but on Facebook you can opt-out of random people seeing your face.

Facebook has A LOT of customization when it comes to your privacy. You can turn off all of the items you brought up in your post.

“they will sell our data if it makes money” — No, they won’t. In no way does that align with their business goals.

Facebook is the worst thing for privacy since Nazis started taking names! It shows all these pictures from others that have you in them to your employers, and it’s up to you to find them and untag them. Even worse, everything they do is opt-out, so by default all your information is shared all the time with everyone. I agree with Frank, at least the search results from Google don’t contain my personal information, until it’s my Facebook profile that pops up on the search!
Facebook blows chunks, they will sell our data if it makes money – and when you signed up you gave them a license to use the data for any purpose which they see fit….

Facebook and Friend Connect aren’t rivals, they complement each other. In one you actually do the work, and the other is a tool to have one global ID among several websites.

The idea of data portability is creating some problems, as everyone wants “open access” but only if they are the ones providing the service.

So what exactly are they going to pour over those documents. Gravy sounds good. You might think of poring over this post by the way.

I think its wrong question: the user *can* access/extract/whatever its own data. Its all about using Google to access my data. If Google with the agreement with Facebook got access to all my data without my permission, it would be horrible. But if its all about allowing Google to passing (organizing) data for me, with my clear permission and only when I want it, I won’t protest.

http://blog.fac...post=7584397130

“Ryan Merket is dumber than any other person…” – and with that I’m done with you.

Beacon apology:
http://blog.fac...post=7584397130

“We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.”

“Ryan Merket is dumber than any other person…” — and with that comment. I am done with you, for good. Go troll somewhere else.

Their (and Arrington’s) stance on the topic is disingenuous at best. Why on earth would a company allow an invasive parasite like Google to have at one of their core assets?

If you won’t admit that this is a business decision and nothing else, we have nothing further to discuss.

Ask Gilmor or Arrington.Genius.

Allowing my usage of 3rd party sites to be displayed was merely an oversight. My purchase at Overstock was really their business, sure. You want some vodka in that kool-aid?

If facebook was concerned about privacy Beacon would neve have happend. this is about business, nothing more. Google knows and so does facebook, but your are too ignorant to be aware.

Ryan Merket is dumber than any other person I have seen comment here on Techcrunch ever, period (b/c I don’t thin he is even paid directly by them). Dumber than a rock.

Facebook servers belong to Facebook. Do you get it? If Facebook blocks Google or anyone else trying to get access to their server, since it is their property, then they have every right to do just that. Sorry, you’re misguided, in thinking that it is YOUR decision. The server is not yours, it is the property of Facebook and the decision is theirs.

Here is a suggestion to you. How about take your data from Facebook and put it on your own website, heh? In that way, Google crawler can then index your detail. See, you then make that decision for yourselves, since the decision to allow the Google crawler to index your detail is yours alone (after all, the page with your detail on it is your property).

It is time that people should stop moaning & thinking that they have a legitimate say in what other property owners do with what is theirs.

The user should have the choice of who and what can access his/her data.
Sorry Facebook – but we can make that decision for ourselves – after all – we chose to trust you, sign up and put our data into your application didn’t we? I love Facebook for the utility and ease of access (still a great iPhone app) – but the fact is my professional contacts are on LinkedIn, my school contacts are on friends reuinited, and I have friends on Ning, Plaxo and a dozen other networks/tools. Thats’ great – it demonstrates that today people can choose whatever networking product suits their needs.

So be a good chap, quit the Microsoft stance (yeah – they talked a lot about “open” standards for years as well) and be a part of the community…

Facebook has spoke out and apologized for the way Beacon was initiated. Now ALL Beacon sites are required opt-in ONLY. Please do your research before trying to call me out.

Have you ever given thought that maybe your friends don’t want to be able to take their data to 3rd party sites? Sure, the information YOU enter in Facebook is YOUR data, just like the information your friends enter into Facebook is THEIR data. What Google is essentially doing is neglecting the fact that your friends may not want you to take that information to other networks.

Privacy, Frank… Privacy. That’s why Facebook is growing, and that’s why they are stopping the Google siphon.