Comments on: We Can’t Ignore Facebook

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Metrics, This Time For Web Accessibility « UK Web Focus — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:21:07 +0000

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By: Hazel Edmunds

Hazel Edmunds — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:57:20 +0000

Don’t play down your interest in “folk” a) because many of your serious followers are also into folk in its many guises and b) many innovations come from leisure interests (setting up event pages for a folk festival, sharing information on a local knitting group etc).

By: Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:22:05 +0000

Thanks for your comment. You are correct - Facebook's use of RDFa in the Open Graph Protocol isn't new - the news item referred to developments which were mentioned in yesterday's conference. Sorry that my post was ambiguous. You're right that we should continue to monitor the implications of Facebook developments. As well as the privacy implications which, for example, I highlighted in the context of the Guardian app, there's also a need to monitor associated user behaviours. Looking at the stats for the Guardian app in the short period of time since the app was announced it seems that as of today at 13.15 there have been 115,794 likes of the main section, 6,895 of the Guardian Media, 5,294 of Guardian Football, 4,025 for the Guardian Culture, 3,776 for Guardian Music, 3,678 of Guardian Technology, 3,174 of Guardian Science, 2,039 of Guardian Data and 1,965 of Guardian Society. Will these numbers drop as people become aware of the implications - or grow, perhaps indicating that privacy issues aren't felt to to outweigh the benefits?

By: PeteJ

PeteJ — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:48:41 +0000

I don’t think Facebook OGP use of RDFa is a new thing? e.g. “We’ve based the initial version of the protocol on RDFa”
http://ogp.me/ “Last updated December 10th, 2010.” I think maybe they’ve just updated to RDFa 1.1? I could be wrong though.

On the broader point of “we can’t ignore Facebook”: oh, I agree, I follow with interest and concern their ongoing attempts to erode privacy, shape the information we see, and to extract ever more information from individuals in order to support their customer base of advertisers.

I’m always mightily relieved I don’t have an Fb account though! :)