Neomeme

Forget the privacy-infringing, faux-not-evil Google Beast. The real beast, growing rapidly and devouring everything in its path, is Facebook. Facebook huge right now. Super-huge. Almost Google-huge. CEO-bitch “CEO,bitch” Mark Zuckerberg is hailed as a modern-day DaVinci. Even old fogeys like Robert Scoble are transitioning to Facebook, because it’s as cool as iPhone. A cottage industry, complete with eager VCs has sprung up around Facebook Applications, and startups rise and fall on Facebook apps alone.

And now, Facebook is jumping into the acqusistions game, buying up a startup before it even launches and outbidding Google. When you outbid Google’s billion-dollar cash reserves, you ‘re not fooling around. You mean business. Read more »

Facebook is seeing the first sides of its own Facebook platform working against it. Facebook Platform, as you recall, is the service that allows anyone to build their own application to be embedded in Facebook profiles. It was only a matter of time before someone built an application to replace Facebook’s own services, and the first one to be popular has arrived. Read more »

Panoptic means all-seeing. And that, increasingly, is what our web is becoming. Every single thing we do online, every post, comment, and registered account has been indexed and catalogued. Google your name. Google the username you used on a forum five years ago. I bet you’ll be surprised at how many results you find, going back years and years. The web can see into every corner of your digital life- and so can anyone else who cares to look. Read more »