The Hidden Genius of Facebook
It’s no secret that people look to Facebook as they push out their new features, UI changes, and their ever growing API… I’m one of those people.
Sitting here thinking about it today, I realized that in opening up users’ status feeds to outside applications, Facebook is essentially growing their data mining and acquisition rate exponentially.
Think about it, not only do people post all of their personal likes, dislikes, and data mining information into Facebook (which is why it’s a gold service)… Now, people can import even more structured data for Facebook to collect.
It’s one thing for you to put your favorite books into your profile… but it’s a whole other thing when your blog posts, movie reviews, book reading habits, and etc get imported and stored on Facebook servers.
For every single application that gets built and plasters stuff on your news feed, the more data that Facebook gathers…
Genius
I'm a Ruby developer that loves to play with science, math, and gadgets. Previously, I was part of a startup called drop.io, acquired by Facebook. I live in Fort Worth, TX with my wife, 2 dogs, and baby boy. I'm a foodie, a gamer, and a self proclaimed scientist.
