Comments on: Facebook: the New Publisher http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:29:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GigaOM » VA Tech Response Reveals Force of Web http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139645 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:31:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139645 [...] Dan Gillmor writes, “We used to say that journalists write the first draft of history. Not so, not any longer. The people on the ground at these events write the first draft.” It actually sounds pretty similar to Mark Zuckerberg’s idea of Facebook as the new publisher. [...]

]]> By: Winstonian http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139644 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:46:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139644 “Zuckerberg’s a genius, sorry, it’s just true. And I love hating people…”

uhhh….what? How is he a genius?

]]> By: Phil http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139643 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:56:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139643 Zuckerberg’s a genius, sorry, it’s just true. And I love hating people…

]]> By: donloeb.com » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-25 http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139639 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:37:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139639 [...] Facebook: the New Publisher interesting. and, yes, facebook and myspace users understand “subscriptions” as that’s what they do via networking (tags: facebook aggregation publishing rss citizenjournalism) [...]

]]> By: Facebook: the New Publisher » KOKYUNAGE NEWS » http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139642 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:49:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139642 [...] in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal today ((The kid did go to Harvard..ego thing?))read more | digg story These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new [...]

]]> By: links for 2007-03-26 « David Black http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139641 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:21:48 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139641 [...] GigaOM » Facebook: the New Publisher Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: “you can start weaving together real events into stories. As these start to approach being stories, we turn into a massive publisher.” (tags: internet socialmedia socialnetworking facebook citizenmedia participatory journalism ugc) [...]

]]> By: Jamie http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139640 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:16:24 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139640 Zuckerberg is the new Steve Jobs. Arrogant? Yes. But he gets it.

]]> By: Eloquation » Blog Archive » Facebook is Telling Stories http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139638 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:15:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139638 [...] I just found a great post on GigaOM about Facebook becoming the new publisher, where Liz Gannes sums it up quite nicely: “So [...]

]]> By: mike grishaver » Blog Archives » transparent web, transparent world http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139637 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:54:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139637 [...] “web 2.0″ applications. But I think the combined effect of location-based mobile data, robust social networks, increased automation and bandwith will lead to an entirely new experience. I’ll call it the [...]

]]> By: sc http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139636 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:46:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139636 We don’t even have time to read human generated content, and now we have machine-generated content.

Paparazzi for the masses!

]]> By: sheesh http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139632 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:41:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139632 Oh christ.

I’m so sick and tired of people who aren’t even IN school making grandiose statements about facebook’s future…

College students (and to a much lesser extent high school) are and will continue to be its bread and butter – and until you can turn back time I don’t think any journalists should be making comments about how well received the news feed and all the other crappy ‘innovations’ have been.

]]> By: Yohay http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139633 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:41:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139633 The guy invented arrogance!

]]> By: Mosites http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139634 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:30:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139634 His arrogance is astounding. I think they’ll quickly find that conversations are best left on a personal level, rather than aggregated by a system and force fed to users. Part of the solution here is of course to build out Facebook as a communications platform, but that is outside the scope of their business and I think doing so would cause them to lose focus on their most effective products.

Otherwise, I agree with Winstonian’s acknowledgment of the third person as an indication of how they see their role in the community.

]]> By: Winstonian http://gigaom.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139635 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:07:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/facebook-the-new-publisher/#comment-139635 I wonder what exactly constitutes a ‘use’ of the feed feature. The feeds appear on every users homepage as soon as they log in. So whether or not a user likes or wants the feeds, they are still stuck with seeing them (which may mean ‘using’ them as well) if they don’t know how to turn them off.

I think the critical flaw to this feature is that Facebook is using software to automatically publish and stream news that IT deems worthy and in a format of ITS chosing. In this scenario, the user is just a source and all the fun stuff like crafting the medium, is left to Facebook and software.

One example of this disconnect is how Facebook feeds and updates all refer to people in the third person.

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