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If you don’t want something to be seen by your fiance’s parents, a future employer, or your grandkids, don’t put it on the internet.

via In Mark Zuckerberg’s world, lying is the only way to be yourself | The Verge.

The web is a big, stinky museum filled with all sorts of things. Your personal data is not a special exhibit – you’re just one of many. But if you feel particularly sensitive this kind of thing, here’s a solution … don’t put your stuff on the web to begin with. Keep it out of the museum.

In truth it’s pictures and vision. Facebook users will continue to upload a significant fraction of a billion photos every day. With luck, Google will get something going with Glass. These things can thrive side by side. If Google is truly successful, POV images and video clips will start showing up on Facebook, too. Everything mixes and merges.

via Pictures and vision.

The future is in photographs.

Rafe Needleman makes a great point about the new Facebook App Center. I firmly believe that standards-friendly HTML5 is where things are going, and I hope that the Facebook App Center will help push us in that direction.

So what can Facebook actually sell to users on the site? Non-platform-specific apps, or HTML5 apps. Facebook will take the customary 30% fee for app sales (Microsoft charges less, by the way) and may well make some money from this, but the real win for Facebook isnt retail sales of apps, its getting developers to build apps for the platform-agnostic standard of HTML5 instead of for proprietary operating systems.

via Facebook App Center: More showcase than store, actually | Internet & Media – CNET News.