On the other hand, what might really kill Facebook is the fact that somehow, fan pages are now part of the suggested friends list. As you know, I’ve always had complaints about the way Facebook tries to figure out who you might be friends with, based on who else your current friends are connected to….
Normally, I respect what Preston Galla writes about over at Computerworld, but yesterday’s article just seemed like a whole lot of FUD to me. The BBC reports that researchers at the University of Texas at Austin were able to take completely anonymous data from Flickr and Twitter, run an algorithm on it, and from that…
I’ve written about this before, with Facebook’s “People you may know” tool, but I’m reminded again today because of some “recommendations” of groups that are starting to appear on LinkedIn and other sites as well. As I mentioned before, just because you read this blog, and maybe I follow your blog, and we’re “friends” on-line,…
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