http://grahamchastney.com/2007/09/facebook-and-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=facebook-and-me The rambling of a technologist trying to find a way through Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:12:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://grahamchastney.com/2007/09/facebook-and-me/#comment-286 Stu Downes Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:49:30 +0000 http://grahamchastney.com/?p=165#comment-286 Facebook is an application which requires regular interaction, this is a benefit and an issue, especially for those of us working inside the corporate firewall with logged usage. I think the question should be would a web 2.0 style profile application with the ability to build a network, combine presence, location and activity information into a stream accessible to collegues be useful? My answer would be yes to that. I think facets of facebook are useful to the enterprise and if the API allowed for enterprises to leverage just those useful elements for a fee then we may see some more openess to applications like facebook. This view must be balanced with the security concern and requirements for many enterprises to retain data on their own networks, which is where tools like the Aqualogic suite from BEA or Connections from IBM (and others) come into their own. Facebook is an application which requires regular interaction, this is a benefit and an issue, especially for those of us working inside the corporate firewall with logged usage. I think the question should be would a web 2.0 style profile application with the ability to build a network, combine presence, location and activity information into a stream accessible to collegues be useful? My answer would be yes to that. I think facets of facebook are useful to the enterprise and if the API allowed for enterprises to leverage just those useful elements for a fee then we may see some more openess to applications like facebook. This view must be balanced with the security concern and requirements for many enterprises to retain data on their own networks, which is where tools like the Aqualogic suite from BEA or Connections from IBM (and others) come into their own.

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