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7 Visions Video & Future of Facebook Project Wrapup

13 Monday Aug 2012

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How long will Facebook be around? Is Facebook prepared to defend against clever new startups? Can Facebook successfully transition to mobile? How will Facebook cope with Augmented Reality?

Open Foresight and The Future of Facebook team are pleased to announce the completion of the Future of Facebook interview and video series featuring the likes of David Kirkpatrick (author The Facebook Effect), Kevin Kelly (author What Technology Wants, co-founder Wired), and science journalist Rita J King. The Kickstarter- and patron-funded project, launched in early 2011, has generated a volume of open source Future of Facebook content including 6 Expert Focus Videos, 150 Vision Clips and hundreds of user-generated predictions on Quora. All the material has been made available to academics, students, businesses and other organizations via the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 license. Continue reading →

Future of Facebook: Environment [video]

25 Friday May 2012

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Will the distinction between the online world and the offline world soon dissolve? Might our physical world soon have a Facebook-powered augmented reality layer? Will we become nodes and sensing objects in a new kind of location-based web experience? And what role will social networks play in climate change?

The “Future of Facebook: Environment” is the fourth video in a six part series exploring the implications of social networking technologies on our lives.

Using the Open Foresight model, we’ve generated forecasts by combining expert opinion with insights from the public. All content is licensed under Creative Commons, making it free to remix and reuse, with attribution.

Add your voice to the mix by creating a video response on the futureoffacebook youtube channel, sharing your thoughts on twitter with the hashtag #fofb, posting on the Facebook page, or putting in your 2¢ on our Quora questionnaire. Follow the full project at futureoffacebook.com.

Produced by Venessa Miemis, Alvis Brigis, Sean Park, Shane Valcich and Innotribe.

Social Media and the Evolution of Consciousness [video]

16 Friday Mar 2012

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This is my favorite talk I’ve given so far. No notes, no real prep… just sharing my views about the web, the co-evolution of humanity and our technologies, and where we might be taking ourselves. Continue reading →

Future of Facebook: Politics [video]

25 Tuesday Oct 2011

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The second installment in the 6 part Future of Facebook video series, a project to explore the impact social networking technologies are having on our lives.

Thanks to interviewees Chris Arkenberg, David Kirkpatrick, Alex Howard, Howard Rheingold, and Valdis Krebs; to all the people who contributed to the kickstarter campaign, and to Innotribe, our corporate patron. Continue reading →

Survey: 4 Questions for the Future of Facebook

08 Saturday Oct 2011

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As we continue to roll out the Future of Facebook video series, I thought it might be nice to supplement it with a report. So, I’m excited to say I’ve teamed up with John Smart, president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, who is fleshing out a great overview of key trends, issues, and recommendations for Facebook’s future.

Part of the ‘open foresight‘ aspect of this project has been pulling in thoughts and opinions from the public as well as the experts. Though we have a series of questions available to be answered on Quora, we decided to put together a separate short 4 question survey with some of the juiciest questions for you to gnaw on, which will be integrated into the final report.

So, if you have a few minutes to share your thoughts on biggest threats, the “next big thing,” and what you’d do if YOU were at the helm of the Facebook ship – please help us out!

Click here to take the Future of Facebook Survey.

Thank you!

Future of Facebook Project Launch on CNN.com

02 Tuesday Aug 2011

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It’s not every day I can say our little project was featured on CNN.com, so here’s us sharing our victory. 🙂

For those that are regular readers, you know that at the beginning of this year my friend Alvis and I decided to do a forward-focused video project about the future of facebook. We’ve been busy since then doing interviews, transcribing, writing scripts, and building the project. Below is the article that just launched on CNN’s Global Public Square yesterday. Huge thanks to our creative team – Shane Valcich for the video work, Erica Glasier for imagery, and Mark Plattner for designing the futureoffacebook.com web site. Please help us spread the word about the project, and let us know what you think of the first focus video – Future of Facebook: Economy. Continue reading →

Visual.ly – Twitter Data-Generated Infographic

14 Thursday Jul 2011

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Data visualization community Visual.ly just released a cool free infographic tool. Enter your twitter handle and get your stats transformed into a nify picture. It’s not totally accurate (hey, I’m more than 9% enthusiastic! and i’ve never worn a necktie.), but definitely fun. Get your own infographic here.

Facebook: The Social Accelerator?

25 Wednesday May 2011

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image by ericaglasier.com @EricaGlasier

We live in a world of accelerating change. As our communication technologies evolve, it becomes easier to connect more and more of us around the planet to each other. The web collapses space and time, dissolves geographic boundaries, and gives us windows into each other’s worlds.This is causing shifts in the way individuals perceive themselves, their immediate relationships with friends and communities, and the context of how they relate to society at large.David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect, prognosticates, “Just by increasing the efficiency of communication and reducing friction in relationships between people, particularly on a global basis, it will lead to a more integrated sense of humanity.”

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5 Key Issues Impacting the Future of Facebook

04 Friday Mar 2011

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As part of the Future of Facebook Project and Open Foresight process, we’re asking the crowd for their opinions and forecasts on the same 15 questions we’ve asked our interviewees. Questions are posted on Quora, but can also be answered here on the blog or on our Facebook Page.

Here are some interesting and thought-provoking answers we’ve seen so far. We’ll be integrating our favorites into the final video series, so add your thoughts and join us as producers of the future!

1. Social Graph & Sentiment Data Usage


I believe the biggest issue facing Facebook is how it chooses to use the massive amounts of data it collects on everyone of us. Facebook is a unique window into our minds and has the potential to know what we want even before we do. How it chooses to capitalize on this fact and the tools it builds could propel commerce, content and communication for the next 5 to 10 years.

– John Hazard

2. Partnerships with Brands


Let’s face it – brands are the ones who are bringing the revenue. But as of today, Facebook has a very closed-in environment with very limited support for brands and limited consideration for brands’ needs. They have also been missing some key things brands are looking for (like capability to easily segment audience within one fan page for the brand to avoid defragmented fans base/presence across Facebook, etc).

– Ekaterina Walter

3. Higher Education

The London School of Business is already offering an International MBA delivered via a Facebook App…. The quality of Facebook Higher Education delivery will be no better or worse than current online and blended online and face-to-face courses already being offered by universities. The difference is that instead of using walled off course management tools offered by universities and publishers, Facebook will deliver an open and transparent education that allows more real time interaction and collaboration with experts in the outside world. Students will not be limited by location and will shift to educational brands that deliver quality social experiences online forcing many local and regional Higher Education institutions out of business in the next five years. The world will truly be the classroom.

– Dr. William J. Ward

4. Signal to Noise Ratio

I think a major issue going forward for Facebook, and other social sites, will be finding a better way to sift out relevant posts from noise. We’re all guilty of following / friending more people than we actually care about. Social graphs contain invaluable personal data; being able to analyze that data and make content more meaningful, contextual and separate value from the noise will be critical as social networks continue to explode .

– Mike Beauchamp

5. How We See Ourselves and the World

…my focus tends to be on the utility of FB and its popularity as a vehicle for emergent properties… it will be interesting to not only see how social media continues to play a part in physical protests against oppressive governments worldwide, but how that same spirit of revolution loops back into the virtual world and online psyche – a place where we are only beginning to understand the implications of global connectivity (i.e. virtual cities of thought/memes that supercede physical city, national, corporate and cultural boundaries; open source educational models and the reframing of “learning”; speculative gaming as a means for simulation/big picture solutions; etc.).

– Frank W. Spencer IV

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Add your views to the Future of Facebook Project topic on Quora!

Check out our kickstarter video here

Thanks to Producers Sean Park, Dr. William Ward, and Debra Farber, and to all supporters of the Future of Facebook Project!

What is Privacy? a rant about Facebook & the open source movement

23 Sunday May 2010

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I’ve been reading through danah boyd’s recent posts, Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated and  Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) and all the other posts out there about Facebook and this privacy issue – and would like to add my voice to the mix.

Everything seems to be coming to a head, and I haven’t seen anyone really tackle the emotional aspects of what’s going on, so I’d like to take a crack at it.

Everyone is up at arms and pissed, but do we know why? What’s the big deal with privacy? What is privacy? What are we really talking about here?

My take:

When conversations get commodified, we are lost.

Tell me, besides being physically intimate with another human, what is more sacred than the space where you share yourself and your life with others?

Whether this be a conversation, sending a photo of what you’re doing, a text message, or any other form of communicating information about the way you feel or the things you think – what else is there?

This is us being human.

In my opinion, people are not so much upset that Facebook is making this sharing of ourselves more transparent, it’s that this sharing of ourselves is being commodified, and people are making money off of it. Continue reading →

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