----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Ladner" <samladner@gmail.com> To: "AoIR mailing list" <air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:07 PM Subject: [Air-L] Facebook's Friends Data Has Already Left the Barn
Folks,
See a story on TechCrunch that describes a new service that allows users to export their facebook or bebo (among others). Users can put their data into a feed for their own Web sites, for example. The article describes how this might complicate facebook's ability to guard users' privacy.
I'm a little more interested in what it means for the digitization of identity. Are people's identities becoming "co-mingling bits", as Negroponte would have us believe?
I'm interested in what others on this list might have to say.
Here's the article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/17/facebooks-friends-data-has-already-left...
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