Data portability grabs Myspace, Facebook and friends
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Myspace and Facebook were also quite active suitors of social data this week, and both are willing to share. Myspace is calling its plan Data Availability and is partnering with Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter. Ian Schafer offered an analysis of how the deal would work with each partner. Gigaom's Stacey Higginbotham felt that it was Myspace's attempt to become the 'Intel Inside' for social networks and notes that they will retain tight control as the hub of the sharing network.
On Friday Facebook announced Facebook Connect (Google's Friend Connect wasn't announced until Monday). Caroline McCarthy documented this major step in Facebook's difficult history in managing and using customer data. Groundswell's Charlene Li outlined the Facebook plan along with examples of how it would work.
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Reading habits worth considering
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Jeremy Schoemaker’s pragmatic mantra is “prioritize potentially profitable projects". His internet life began in 1995 when a customer (Schoemaker was selling Sears appliances) offered him a job with his ISP. The customer knew that Schoemaker spent a lot of time on the computer, not knowing that it was mostly spent playing games. But the customer, as always, was right. Schoemaker quickly gained the technical skills and retained the marketing instincts that told him there was money to be made with the vast audience the internet was sure to attract. There was, and he did.
He is guided today by a discipline of spotting new trends and keeping an eye out for small changes that can add big profits. Schoemaker's popular blog is called 'ShoeMoney® - Skills To Pay The Bills' and its posts usually point to revenue opportunities (although he seems to have gotten the Twitter bug that is going around). True to form, he now tweets his old mantra. His blog
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Described as a search engine that can read sentences and not just keywords, Powerset went live this week, with the lofty expectations of being both a Google killer and a Microsoft takeover prospect. The new engine was given a thorough test drive by David Chartier blogging in Ars Technia. Several bloggers, including Dana Farber uncovered problems with the search results and Center Network's Hank Williams argued that the reading comprehension of semantic competitor Hakia showed far more potential. There might be some merit to that argument -- a list of Powerset's self declared "Factz" on George Washington reveal that he took an oath, used influence, visited North America, avoided temptation and delivered President Woodrow Wilson. While the first four Factz are arguably true, Woodrow Wilson was most likely delivered by a midwife 57 years after Washington died.
