Comments on: A Potential Business Model for Facebook II?

By: Jeff Mann

Jeff Mann — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:40:49 +0000

I’m not so sure, Coffee. I tend not to believe in conspiracy theories. It could be that the intense backlash made them decide that the change wasn’t worth it, no matter what their intentions were.

By: coffee

coffee — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:55:15 +0000

the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were wrong in the first place

By: Philip Allega

Philip Allega — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:13:04 +0000

Corporate implications abound…

Consider a furtherance of this supposition for a potential future corporation.

LONDON – 19 Feb 2025

In a related report, Facebook II announced the purchase of data and associated transactions for BigCo, a current Fortune 100 company who has used the Facebook platform since its inception in 2008. Emails, multimedia, corporate secrets, presentations, sales information, client connections, supplier relationships – all were accesible to BigCo employees on the Facebook platform. An insider reports that the undisclosed payoff to Facebook II was “very large and painful”. A BigCo spokesperson has refused comment.

By: Irregular Enterprise mobile edition

Irregular Enterprise mobile edition — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:16:35 +0000

[...] businesses we all love to hate and will pillory at the first opportunity. Somewhat tongue in cheek, Gartner is already fictionalizing Facebook’s future. Others spring to mind like our friends up in Redmond aka Microsoft. Goodness knows how much [...]

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:24:52 +0000

And they changed it back anyway…

By: Jeffrey Mann

Jeffrey Mann — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:59:36 +0000

BTW, before someone points it out, I know that patents aren’t generally valid for that long a period.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:52:36 +0000

A dystopian, but not unrealistic, prediction of what the changes in the ToS might cause.

Nice one.