Re: [Social-discuss] Adoption dynamics (and why your intuition fails)

[Rob Myers]

On 06/08/2010 05:33 AM, Hellekin O. Wolf wrote:
> An important point of OpenGraph is that it allows already public
> content to fit the data model of Facebook.  It's another version of
> the Mechanical Turk.  In a world of freedom, free work goes to the
> king!
>
> All right, I can live with good restaurant ratings too. But in the
> future, there are a bit more important things to give attention to
> than marketed products.  Things like culture, education, poverty,
> health, food, that are not following "the charts".

http://blog.dataportability.org/2010/04/25/assessing-the-openess-of-facebooks-open-graph-protocol/

"While some of the approaches are indeed open, the overall outcome is an 
attempt to further lock in Facebook’s dominance over the web’s social 
infrastructure and capture as much attention data and social graph data 
in proprietary formats and API’s as possible."