[...] its challenges The continued innovation is spurred by the elusive business model –this awkwardness is a natural outcome of a company in growth.  I’ve heard a couple of times from various [...]

[...] its challenges The continued innovation is spurred by the allusive business model –this awkwardness is a natural outcome of a company in growth.  I’ve heard a couple of times from various [...]

Hey Jeremiah,

I look after social media for the Microsoft MVP Award Program. I understand that you recently with my colleagues in the US.

If there is anything I can help with, please let me know.
I’m @Jas on Twitter.

[...] Interesting post from Jeremiah Owyang about Facebook gradually becoming more public-facing. [...]

Great job Jeremiah on this post and getting quoted on USA Today. I’d like to hear your thoughts on who is going to be the Facebook of the Enterprise. Not in terms of social connections and social identity, but in terms of business to business connections and corporate identity.

For example, who will step up and be the hub for businesses connecting with customers, partners and suppliers? Who will provide private identity management to ensure I am really dealing with a reputable supplier in China? Who will ensure my projects include the best resource for the job internally?

What would this system look like?

It really will be interesting to see how Facebook implements this new stance of openness in the coming years as it continues to grow.

We’ve already seen how they’ve enabled users to be essentially as open as Twitter with their profiles but I’d like to see if they have some innovative ideas of their own in this space.

My prediction is that we’ll see Facebook Connect vastly expanded upon and Facebook’s hold on users data will loosen up in interesting ways (e.g.,through their APIs).

[...] Facebook Das Social Network wird erwachsen, meint Jeremiah Owyang web-strategist.com [...]

[...] Facebook’s Awkward Adolescence « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang [...]

Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for Facebook continues to evolve, incorporating popular features from other social networks, challenging the way we share content and how we interact with friends and peers. The introduction of Facebook Connect impresses me most and hopefully the ‘Everyone’ feature will allow me to share my site activity and conversations on the open web but restrict my personal discussions to people on my friends list!

Facebook has always run into issues with implementation and running ahead of the curve but they have to lead ideas that create adoption. The question is is will their move to openness work with what people are really willing to share.

The challenge is, they have implemented their innovative vision before it’s community and customer base was ready.

As they come out of puberty, they’ll be more mature in setting expectations, educating, and letting users opt-in –at least that’s the trend I see now.

They have already copied e-mail as Gen Y already uses facebook to communicate through private messages. The next thing for facebook is just giving users their own facebook e-mail address for added mobility.

Alex “mail” Ikonn

public sharing feature was first started by myspace, from twitter fbk copied status feeds… and now u get tools to link your twitter & facebook status feeds together

did u guys know, tat when orkut first started, they made scrapbook a place where u write more about yourrself (if you read the help section on orkut 5-6yrs back on scrapbook), but users took it to another level and made it like a conversational tool..

the rest is history.

THink about this;
on Facebook Status Feeds & frnds Updates; first the users Hated the fact that everyone knows what i am doing, and guess what, Now they say I LIKE! it too

question: does facebook decide its strategy??? or is it the users who frame it up

You’re one blog post ahead of me. I’ve one coming about email in a bit.

A little off topic, but since you bring it up: “you do know that email is the largest social network, right?”

Aren’t we going to see a significant transformation of email? While we’re at it, IM, SMS, voice, etc. In other words, a centralized platform for conversation that is filtered via private, public, groups (work, personal, interests, etc.).

I suppose that’s what Google Wave is headed towards. Anyway, that point got me thinking (rare…).

Good observations, I noticed the same. They also replicated Microsoft’s developer platform and call it F8

What’s left to copy? email.