Need to Know About facebook Changes

I've got a link roundup here, with a little context to help you make the most of it.

First, you can watch the keynote on Facebook's official site.

Next, please be sure to familiarize yourself with Bobbi Newman's writeup over at Librarian by Day that noted you have to opt out of the setting. If you'd like to do that, you can:
1. Go to your to your privacy settings --> Applications and Websites and uncheck box at the bottom.
2. Then click on the links to Yelp, Pandora and MicrosoftDocs.om on Facebook and click on “Block Application”

Mashable wrote about Facebook's Open Graph: What it Means for Privacy

One of their most important takeaways: "Public no longer means 'public on Facebook,' it means 'public in the Facebook ecosystem.'" - i.e., the Web. That's right. My old chestnut is more true than ever: whatever happens in Vegas stays on Google.

ReadWriteWeb has The Definitive Assessment for Publishers, Users and Competitors (and upon reading it, I agree - it is definitive)

Summary: For users, it's about privacy. For publishers, it's an opportunity to make your content sociable, ratable and part of a pseudo-CRM system. And competitors are essentially on notice to collaborate or die.

And if those didn't answer your questions, GigaOm has Your Mom's Guide to Those Facebook Changes.

Another Blip on the Radar
As if Facebook's announcement didn't send enough of a shockwave through the privacy ecosystem, Friday brought another concern. Blippy, a social sharing site that lets friends know what you purchased, screwed up royally when they released some credit card numbers of members. The full credit card numbers that Blippy members used to make purchases were visible via a Google search.

Blippy then went on to explain exactly how it is that something like that could have happened. But the damage was already done. While they may not have lost a ton of customers, there may be a good number of them who'll simply never return. And Blippy's tepid response to the crisis, was slow and lacking in empathy; their original blog post on Friday, April 23 (which has since been changed, I might add - tsk, tsk) stated: "While it looks super-scary and certainly sucks for those few people who were affected, and is embarrassing to us, it's a lot less bad than it looks." They updated their stance as of Monday the 26th, but as I said, it may be too late for them already.


So that's the last week in privacy. If you don't mind sharing your identity, feel free to jump in with a comment on your thoughts on the latest developments.