{"id":3709,"date":"2010-10-14T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manuprasad.com\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2010-10-14T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T04:21:05","slug":"facebook-groupie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2010\/10\/14\/facebook-groupie\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Groupie"},"content":{"rendered":"

What kind of a blog would this be if we didn’t discuss Facebook’s new announcements<\/a>. At a simplistic level, it would seem that Facebook learned a lot from that Google study<\/a>. (via a conversation with Mahendra<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Though i can’t access it yet, I’m very happy with the backup option<\/a>, and hope that its a step towards portability. The new chat availability ‘visualisation’ seems slightly better than the old one. I can’t see the app dashboard yet.\u00a0 But the other big announcement was the revamping of groups. I’d been categorising friends using lists for a while, but didn’t actually utilise them for anything specific. Though its easy to see this as a wall within a wall, from initial usage, I think the new Groups allow that one layer that needed to be added to generic ‘friendships’ – context, not to mention better control over who sees what. And from what I see, I don’t even have to be friends with a person to share things and have a great conversation on a topic both of us like. There are other advantages<\/a> too. Of course, there are a a few issues<\/a>, and as always, Facebook kept everything as public as possible (as default) but changes in this version is as inevitable as the waves of outrage that follows all Facebook announcements.<\/p>\n

I’m still debating whether I’d like the Groups to be integrated better in the newsfeed (with ways to filter as per importance) or whether its current location (sidebar) is a better approach. From a signal-noise perspective, perhaps it should stay the way it is. I’m not very convinced about looking at Groups as ‘Friendfeed going mainstream<\/a>‘ or even Wave<\/a>. But that does make me wonder whether the next version will also have a feed aggregator, directly, or indirectly – allowing apps like Networked Blogs. That might actually get RSS to go mainstream. \ud83d\ude42 If that happens, I am also wondering about the implications on Google Reader, and actually any other network which serves as a content distribution\/consumption channel.<\/p>\n

Groups can be made ‘Secret’, and I’m still not sure how ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ groups will show up in Facebook Search. Also, since I still don’t have access to Places, I can only wonder whether ‘Location’ can also be made a group feature. I’m seeing both the above from a brand perspective. Would a brand, for example, be able to highlight a location specific group on their Page, as part of a local promo? Even if the brands do not get information about the groups, Facebook would still have it, and that would definitely help target ads better.<\/p>\n

Groups are not really a silver bullet, but I don’t think Facebook is aiming for that now either. Its just that they’ve not missed the starting gun, to slice and dice my social graph – that’s useful for me, as well as advertisers.<\/p>\n

until next time, group on \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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