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My Name is Baratunde, and I’m a Facebook CurmudgeonSmall Presentation Thing for Web Community Forum 2007
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Comedian, Author, Vigilante Pundit
About Me
Political comedian, writerBlogger for Huffington Post, Jack & Jill Politics, baratunde.comFormer strategy consultant for mediacommwebstuffRecently joined The Onion as Web Editor
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Rich User Profiles!
NamePhone NumberMailing AddressClass Year
MajorEmailDorm RoomOffline-Poking
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Rich User Profiles!
NamePhone NumberMailing AddressClass Year
MajorEmailDorm RoomOffline-Poking
Multi-Platform
Messaging
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Rich User Profiles!
NamePhone NumberMailing AddressClass Year
MajorEmailDorm RoomOffline-Poking
Multi-Platform
Messaging
Behaviorial Targeting
Data
www.baratunde.com
Rich User Profiles!
NamePhone NumberMailing AddressClass Year
MajorEmailDorm RoomOffline-Poking
Multi-Platform
Messaging
Behaviorial Targeting
Data
Location-Based
Services
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Things to Fix in the New FacebookWebAdvertisingSocialPlatform 2.0 Service
Bad for whales (partially resolved)Bass ackwards contacts & messagingThe (Spam) PlatformOther WhiningConclusion
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The Day Facebook Died to Me August 17, 2007
900 frnds, 600 in grp
replaced email list. trapped
used for promo
BLOCKED
>> Angry BloggingPhoto by B I R D, via Flickr
Status: Partially resolved by Pages
Presence
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Groups vs. PagesHow about Grages?
Status: Pages wins for me.
Presence
Feature Groups PagesBulk Messaging w/o Limit ? Y
Members Can Reply to Msg Y --Target Msg by Geography, Other -- --
Invite Mechanism Y -- *Use for Event Invites Y -- *
Applications -- YUsage Metrics (vid plays, etc) YEasy to Find (via directory) Y -- *
* = likely to be fixedwww.baratunde.com
I have 1,224 friends Now what?
Create Custom Groups: Affiliation: high school, conference, illegally wiretapped
Geography, etc.
Let Me Do Things with themMessaging
Event invites
View and interact with apps (e.g. popular books among subgroup)
Status: Still Sucks
Contacts
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MySpace Flashbacksor Never Abandon Basic Features that Work
Folders???
Search???
Group Messages???
Flagging???
Filters/Blocking???
Export/Download???
Status: Still Sucks
Msging
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MySpace Flashbacksor Never Abandon Basic Features that Work
Folders???
Search???
Group Messages???
Flagging???
Filters/Blocking???
Export/Download???
Status: Still Sucks
Msging
EMAIL!!
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If I get one more Zombie invite...I’m digging up a corpse, injecting it with the Rage virus and setting it loose on the Facebook developers
Give me a Dashboard w/ total & friend users
Build in ratings
Create a category for “stupid”
Let me opt out
Status: Getting better. Doesn’t email me
CrApps
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Networks and BeaconNow I’m just piling on
Let me join multiple city networks
Give users explicit control of their data
Whining
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Facebook has massive potentialMay one day be as good as
The End
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Facebook has massive potentialMay one day be as good as
The End
The Internet
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