rwwmike

Maybe you can connect with friends on Quora and maybe you can ask specific people questions, but Facebook Questions is gonna far outpace Quora for asking your friends simple questions.

Agreed. HP is pretty behind. Sure, they put out a ridiculous number of devices when you count computers and printers, but I think I have ONE friend using a Palm phone...though some folks are now even recommending the TouchPad over the iPad 2.0

HP is definitely showing some commitment to an idea here, though.

Biased? As in not completely accepting of the idea that everything Apple does automatically wins? You "expect more from RWW"? Really?

WSJ had "the inside scoop"? Really? An entire story based on the fact that the next iPad is going to be lighter, faster and thinner? That's the silly part.

I wrote the article. I wasn't thinking at all about "user engagement." I was thinking "Look, there's another article on this same thing, and that one takes issue with this method." And then I thought, "I don't see any issue at all."

Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb co-editor, got his start...

[I think Marshall might keel over if he heard you call him that.] :)

This is what I've been wondering ALL DAY.

Gotta say - doesn't matter if you're in or not at SXSW. Maybe for the interactive, you can't go to the panels...but there's parties..and then during music? There's so much free stuff all over the city it's insane.

Aww hell, and I already booked my flight.

Part of what Facebook has done has continually push what we're willing to share online, I think. And really, the entire Internet has changed what we're willing to share online, not just Facebook. As we're able to do more and more online, we need to provide more and more information online. It's just whether or not that information remains under our control that's really the big question, I think.

Here's the follow-up story...

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_identity_the_c...

You are correct. I write for ReadWriteWeb, wrote the article and I think that the URL has that code in it because I clicked on the Hacker News button on the article to share it.

:)

Who owns your online identity is a completely different thing than letting this sort of contact information leak through the carelessness of your friends. Other profile information of yours, if you don't correct FB's settings, can be given to third-parties by way of your friend saying okay.

That is, thankfully your friend can't decide they want to share there contact information with some app and vicariously share yours too.

Big difference.

1) With many permission requests, there will be far more than just two items on the screen. Look at other dialog boxes for FB permission - just one or two options is not the norm, it's just the example...

Hackers + Google TV units = cool ass shit, IMHO.

I really expect SnapStick to come out with some stuff that is going to put some of these screen-specific technologies on their knees.

You can't watch network websites or basic Hulu? How long can that really fly?

FYI: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testi...

The part I didn't really include is their list of 7 requirements, which are... 1-The acceptable A/V container formats (e.g. Fragmented MP4, WebM, etc.); 2-The acceptable audio and video codecs (e.g. H.264, VP8, AAC, etc.); 3-The streaming protocol (e.g. HTTP, RTP, etc.); 4-A way for the streaming protocol to adapt to available bandwidth; 5-A way of conveying information about available streams and other parameters to the streaming player module; 6-A way of supporting protected content (e.g. with DRM systems); 7-A way of exposing all this functionality into HTML5

So...yeah, definitely DRM. And not coy, as you point out.

What I really want to know is, what did I leave out? And how long is it until "real-time" is a given? Sorta like calling something "social"?

Interesting, I just looked into this the other day. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikileaksorg_is_back_up...

Just reached out to the owner of mirror.wikileaks.info

I think there's a lot of assumption going on here in terms of who is in charge of what and who's responsible...

Ads, when not overdone, really just don't phase me honestly.

I tune them out.

I agree. Facebook having complete ownership and control over my identity is a scary thought. The site is far too reckless and cavalier with its banning of people, business sites, apps, etc. I've read far too many accounts of banishments without any given reason or response to complaints...

Actually, that's not at ALL why I wrote that. I wrote that because I found it hard to not wonder if the two things were connected. Suddenly, user names are becoming @facebook.com email addresses.

I also wrote this line before Facebook ever responded to our questions (which they did just a moment before posting) and didn't remove it. Before the explanation, Boy Genius Report was speculating that it was a hack because of the request for a government ID. A quick Google search showed that a government ID request seemed to be a standard thing when Facebook wants to reactivate certain accounts, so I figured that wasn't the case and postulated that perhaps it had to do with Facebooks latest change...its messaging system.

The only reason I ever put links into a story is so that if you don't know about that, and it's readily accessible, you don't need to search for it. :)

I still want to believe that, somewhere out there, there actually is Free Public WiFi...