Facebook sees opportunities to harness Friend Feed’s aggregation technology to develop a richer, more developed internal search engine. By organizing personal information, status updates, and other Facebook activity into a user friendly format, users will more easily be able to search for anything or anyone they want on Facebook.
What is the role of e-commerce and Web 2.0 technologies in Facebook’s widespread popularity?
The facebook platform provides third party developers a platform for applications like games plug in features for users’ profiles and other programs which are fully integrated with the facebook site.
Describe the weaknesses of Facebook’s privacy policies and features. What people, organization, and technology factors have contributed to those weaknesses?
The company has encountered more than its fair share of problems during its time mostly involving its handling and usage of the extensive information it collects from its users’.
Does Facebook have a viable business model?
Facebook has created a lot of hostile users’ because it has no privacy it remains to be seen whether or not it can turn its heavy traffic and trove of personal information into a new revenue stream.
If you were responsible for coordinating Facebook’s advertising, how would you balance the desire to become increasingly profitable with the need to protect the privacy of your users?
In my honest opinion I really don’t believe that is possible because of the nature of facebook and what has been established on the site already. Only way it could happen is if everyone on facebook found a better site and removed their profiles then maybe it could venture or maybe become something new or different.