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That became part of the new mission statement for Facebook: "Giving people the power to share, in order to make the world more open and connected...
Zuckerberg may want his users to think of Facebook as a movement, but to the grown-ups it's a business - and one that's working very hard to be profitable. But it's got a ways to go before it's in the money, and all this "movement" talk makes me suspicious - like Zuckerberg's putting something over on me. I'm not saying he is. I'm just saying...
Yesterday, while he talked about the movement and how Facebook's goal was to be a place that promotes sharing and connecting, I couldn't help thinking about Beacon. You might recall that Beacon, an advertising play, was intended to broadcast Facebook users' purchases from external websites. Initially, it was forced on users; there was no opting out. But that turned out to be a nightmare for the young company. Zuckerberg had to apologize and retreat. "We made a lot of mistakes during the past year," he admitted yesterday. Clearly, explaining to your users how advertising works on a social...
...movement we're a part of, it's important for us to have a very clear sense of our mission and the purpose behind what we're all doing," the new "What, Me, Beacon?" Zuckerberg told the audience. Then he launched into a story about how he and the Facebook team were trying to come up with a mission statement for the movement about six months ago, when he had to go on vacation to Istanbul right in the middle of the discussion. Once there, he had dinner with a local entrepreneur and had a terrific time, feeling a powerful...
...Sharing" at the conference referred to the new features that Facebook unveiled this week for its redesigned user profile pages, which now make it even easier for me to broadcast the stuff I like. "News feeds" (a Facebook term I've always found vaguely offensive, since it trivializes actual news) are now simpler to manage. When you read a "story" on your news feed and find out a friend has just enjoyed a Big Mac, you can comment on it ("OMG! Me too!!!"), right in the feed. And FacebookConnect, which will start showing up on finer websites and blogs everywhere...