Facebook is building an enterprise product dubbed "FBWork"
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Just use it to keep in touch or get back in touch with people you otherwise would not be able to.
Sure, they're like any other company and will relentlessly push for your to share more and do whatever they can get away with to access more of your personal information, but that sort of comes with the territory. They are basically an identity management company after all.
And don't use any websites that use any of Facebooks third-party script embeds or use something like HTTPSwitchboard and make sure you never load anything from any present or future Facebook property.
Also don't use any services Facebook has bought or will ever buy (I personally got bitten by WhatsApp and Moves).
Sounds easy. Thanks for the advice.
Firstly, that's incorrect. Facebook also knows what other people tell it and what it is able to correlate from other data sources. To be fair to them, they've handled the issue with group photo tagging fairly well, but only after there was uproar about it.
They are in the business of collecting and monetising your data. That's fundamentally not in your interests and it's incredibly difficult to stop them from doing it, especially outside the EU. That is why a lot of people hate them.
Paying for a service and not recieving the service is I would think "fundamentally not in one's interest".
If one then cannot avoid that, then that would probably be potentially irritating.
I'm not sure how much they collect from non users though. Don't they get things from cookies on embedded facebook comment forms?
I hate when phrases like this are thrown about; the collection of your data CAN be very much in your interests, and the monetization thereof makes it free, which is also clearly the preference of most.
The fact that everyone I keep in touch with uses the same system has amazing utility for me. Privacy protections are important, but harping on them as if there is no conceivable personal benefit to data collection turns these discussions into partisan bickering that's hard to take seriously.
Whether or not FB as a platform is useful is irrelevant to the issue of data ownership. Where people have a particular issue with FB, it is, ignoring Mark Zuckerberg's own statements, that as a business they are reliant on what you might call adversarial data collection: i.e., they will take whatever they can get, not just what you explicitly give them.
Contrast that with say, Google, who have been heading in a similar direction for a while now, but they don't predicate their entire business model on it.
If Google stopped collecting your data today they would still have a very viable business selling advertising based on search terms. If FB stopped collecting data, the company would shut down. Thus any utility you get from Facebook is being paid for by a specific model of data collection that happens to be contrary to your best interests.
You might be happy with that trade-off but a lot of people aren't. I for one an unhappy with the fact they have become a defacto standard that's getting increasingly difficult to avoid.
They buy every even remotely successful app, so it's hard not to.
Check us out at: https://dapulse.com/
What's the appeal over something like JIRA?
daPulse is a collaboration tool, so R&D, design, marketing, management - everyone in the company uses it.
It is a bit like you described, PM + social + tasks, but it's designed to help everyone focus on the 'big things'. What it really does is gives everyone in the company one unified view of top priorities, so everyone's in focus on what's important and it gets everyone collaborating with zero e-mails.
As well as task tracking, reports and categorisation there's all kinds of dashboards, agile views (swimlanes, etc), as well as social features like commenting and @mentioning.
Facebook could do some real damage there.
Salesforce, Microsoft, SAP, JIVE, Tibco, VMWare etc. etc. etc. make competing products.
Because social products are much more about engagement and usage vs sales, it would be applicable for IDC to include that metric and weight it heavily in rankings of social enterprise software packages.
Reminds me a lot of the (buggy, modular, quirky) PHPFox (recently changed ownership name to moxi)
The money comes in when a team member leaves... as individuals sign up, the company had no means to deny the individual access to these little spaces. So the company would purchase some plan or other, and be able to manage enterprise access. As someone who used Yammer in the early days, this felt like an extortion play.
It was years before Microsoft purchased them, and somewhere around this time they had moved from short statuses to longer posts and various groups, files, etc... a real-time team collaboration space based around a stream of messages that started to look like "Facebook within your organisation". In many ways Yammer became what SharePoint should have been for the collaboration features.
That's the v. brief history of Yammer.
Either way, for a real collaboration tool that's more than a place to chat, and that has beautiful UI and is used by Uber and Fiverr and other cool startups with names ending with "er", try http://dapulse.com/
One has to wonder whether we will be doing our timesheet tracking/payroll in Facebook instead of $MISC_HR_SOLUTION.
> Facebook only knows what you tell it.
Facebook collects lots of information on you if you're a member or not, and much more than you tell it. Don't believe me? Search on those keywords.
http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/facebook-finally-adm...
Facebook should build a social analytics company, takes Hootsuite outta biz.
Facebook should build a social data company, take Gnip outta biz.
Heck, they should build a search engine (Not Graph Search, that thing is silly hard to learn how to use)
Facebook would be entering a market that is already crowded. I'm not saying they couldn't make a big splash, only that it's not monopolized by Yammer.
If you give credence to IDC, IBM is actually the market share leader, with Jive in the second position and Microsoft in 3rd.
It's actually worked (although publishing to it on my part isn't consistent), and makes me feel much better that my content is stored on my server, in a format I control almost completely.
Made me giggle quite a bit.
I guess as a working adult, LinkedIn should be my go-to network, but no thank you. Hmm, maybe that's where Facebook is going with this.
I take this as further cementing of the fact that they cannot give the returns to investors that is well expected and now overdue.