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Facebook shouldn't own your social graph

It's time to force Facebook (and others social media providers) to open up the social graph. Via legislation. This won't solve every problem with social media but it's an important first step.

Facebook Interoperability

Social networking should work like email, not CompuServe. We need legislation to mandate interoperability between platforms.

Apparently you can’t build an alternative to Facebook without Facebook integration…

Altly prepares to launch an alternative to Facebook... and it has a Like button!

Fight Facebook with Email

Could Facebook and Twitter be destroyed with a simple email address?

Circles

Did the Google+ Circles concept revolutionize social networking, and what we should have instead.

bye, bye, Miss Deprecated API

I'm done with the Twitter API

Bye Skype

Memories of Skype, including building a backup business on it, that mysterious cat emoji, and a landline with Skype built in. We'll miss you!

Top 5 reasons to hate the Facebook like button

Why can't you link to an existing page? How can you have a like button per blog post on your home page? Are we headed towards a world with only one verb?

GetvCard shutting down at the end of 2013

GetvCard, the contact information sharing service based on vCard, shut down at the end of 2013 and is no longer available.

Digital Services Act

Could the Digital Services Act force interoperability between social media platforms?