Facebook division of labor and the rewired society < PopMatters

Zuckerberg also channels his inner Tom Peters and lectures investors on the “Hacker Way,” which is his appropriated term for a horizontalist management scheme in which everything is always beta. “Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic”—of course it is, just like neoliberalism, or capitalism itself. Markets always let the deserving “win.” I’m sure the employees really love the “hackathons” he describes, where they are forced to create products on spec and participate in a corporate tournament to see who among the employees will need to be humiliated for failure to innovate. The hacker way is the precariat way: employees bear all the risk but the company will take all the value they create in the process.

4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

Facebook’s new Timeline will lock people into their Facebook identities from birth. Speaking at Facebook recently, Poole told its developers that they set the bar for identity, but he has since realized he was wrong: we, the users, do. “We’re about to sacrifice something that’s valuable, and it’s special.”

“I would ask us all to strive for this ideal when we design products, and as users on the Web, what we demand of services,” Poole said. “Facebook and Google do identity wrong, Twitter does it better, and I want people to think about what the world would be like if we did it right.”

Dumping friends on Facebook helps make you secure - tech - 30 August 2011 - New Scientist

It turns out that unfriending the least discreet friend increases your security by an average of more than 5 per cent - worth it for a casual acquaintance, but perhaps not so easy if your best buddy is a blabbermouth. “There are some friends you cannot remove, irrespective of their vulnerability,” admits Gundecha.

Bursting the Filter Bubble: Seeing Who Facebook Thinks You're Most Interested In - Forbes

A file that contains information on who Facebook thinks you’re most interested in: You can see it yourself by dragging this link — Facebook Friend Ranking — to your browser bar, and then clicking on it while you’re on Facebook.com (if you’ve enabled secure browsing, you’ll have to turn it off).

Note: I’m not sure you’ll be able to “drag that link” from this Tumblr post, but if you click through you can drag it from the thing I’m linking to here. Make sense? Anyway, it’s pretty interesting, I recommend it.

Intel’s Cool—or Creepy—Museum of Me - Tech Europe - WSJ

In Intel’s greatest gift to narcissists, the Museum of Me is a site they have built that displays your entire Facebook life in what appears to be a virtual museum  hosting a rather unsettling retrospective on you.

When you visit the site you have give it permission to connect to Facebook in the usual way. It then goes off and grabs your whole world of stuff to build the virtual museum which it displays to you in the form of a rolling movie clip.

Facebook Opens Photo Feature to Product Placement

Tag those products and brands, y’all.

Study: 27% of Americans Use Facebook Mobile in Bathroom

The results underscore the proliferation of consumer social media usage and their strong need to stay connected,” said Thomas Harpointner, CEO of AIS Media. “For businesses and brands, social media offers an opportunity to engage potential customers like never before.”

How do people say stuff like this with a straight face? (Or, maybe he didn’t.)