links for 2007-09-07

• Doc Searls Weblog · Maybe they should call it ButtBook
  Doc weighs in on the new move to make parts of our Facebook profiles searchable via Google, etc. "Seems to me this is not what its members bargained for when they joined up. ..."
  (tags: facebook privacy search socialnetworking internet business)
• Closing the Open Facebook - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
  "Is being half open like being half pregnant? That’s a critical question for Facebook as it tries to invite developers to build applications that can be woven into its intricate social fabric."
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking identity search internet)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Adam Greenfield: Culture, and the adaptation of technology
  "Will [things like RFID] become surveillance systems, or will they remain innocuous? The answer is probably not the product of technological determinism - it’s an intersection of the potentials of the technology and the reality of how a culture chooses
  (tags: technology culture privacy surveillance identity rfid internet wireless)
• Facebook Opens Up To Public Search « GigaOM
  "This move transforms Facebook from being a social network to being quasi-White Pages of the Web...."
  (tags: facebook identity privacy internet socialnetworking culture business)