michuk

Facebook taking control of the world is not really that bad. It's only uncomfortable.

It's similar to the Microsoft empire from a few years back. Windows knew everything about you and you were completely locked-in not being able to stop using it because you had all your apps there.

Now you have all your friends there.

From application developer point of view this is actually a good thing - you have a common platform to code for. And it triggers innovation as we don't have to reinvent the wheel - there is the default social network already, so let's build on top of it!

Of course it would be great to have a free, distributed, open source social network anyone would join and leave at any time (think: Diaspora). Just as it would have been so much better if it was Linux or BSD who gained the monopoly on desktops, not Windows.

But we survived then and we'll survive now.

And if Facebook starts being RELALY nasty, people will finally leave it for something more friendly, cooler or maybe just new.

Looks facebookish (not necessarily a bad thing). I would improve the general tagline (there seems to be a few and you cannot decide which one to promote and end up promoting all) and the pictures (current ones are too details, I lost interest in investigating what they show after taking a glance).

Filmaster (http://filmaster.com) has an open source movie recommendation engine based on the ideas developed during the Netflix contest. It's documented at the Filmaster wiki: http://filmaster.org and its source is freely available at bitbucket. Worth a try.