One site to rule them all
After the backlash over Beacon, many news organizations are churning out stories about possible competition for Facebook. The latest story in the Telegraph suggests that LinkedIn might be about to give Facebook a run for its money.
Oh, it is to laugh. Although it’s true that LinkedIn is planning to launch a redesigned site which includes […]
After the backlash over Beacon, many news organizations are churning out stories about possible competition for Facebook. The latest story in the Telegraph suggests that LinkedIn might be about to give Facebook a run for its money.
Oh, it is to laugh. Although it’s true that LinkedIn is planning to launch a redesigned site which includes several new tools (not applications! tools!) for its users, tools which will be designed by outside developers, the appeals of the two sites are so different that I find it hard to consider them as competitors. Distant cousins, maybe.
The Telegraph describes LinkedIn’s redesign as “The latest move in the battle against the soaring popularity of social networking site Facebook.” I like the image this conjures up of all the other websites in the world banding together in a scrappy alliance to overthrow the tyrant Facebook. Just throw the ring in the lava, guys, and be done with it.
We’re also seeing more stories about the dangers of Facebook, including this one in The Toronto Star about a teenager using Facebook to post death threats against some of his peers. And, of course, no one is quite ready to let the Beacon fiasco drop yet: a Wired article speculating that Blockbuster’s participation may have broken the law is titled “New Ways Facebook’s Beacon May Have Broken the Law,” bringing it all back to Facebook’s error once again.
In cheerier news, “facebook” is being considered for Merriam Webster’s Word of the Year this year. According to the San Francisco Chronicle article, “Merriam-Webster defines ‘facebook’ as a verb, as in ‘to look up someone’s profile on the popular Internet social network Facebook.’” Vote it in while you still can, guys. Maybe before long we’ll be saying “linkedin” instead.
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