[Sociam-soton] Re: Facebook buys fitness-tracking... (theguardian.com)

[Markus Luczak-Roesch]

And there is more centralization of consumer services to come: 
http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/22/first-national-bank-of-facebook-could-be-a-real-friend-for-consumers/?__lsa=a3fa-7dce

On 25/04/2014 00:37, electronic Max wrote:
>
> Ahh, I see that everyone's finally catching up to my Twitter feed -
> (haha! I couldn't resist, sorry :)
>
> I had a conversation with Tweeps earlier today about Moves, and lots of
> divided reaction. On one hand, people are happy it will survive; on the
> other, that it will be used for advertising in FB with an uncertain
> future.  The worst case scenario: moves's developer-friendly side gets
> shuttered just so that the team can deeply integrate their technology
> into service FB's needs,  so that they have all of your private
> information AND prevent you from accessing it too.  But I think
> realistically FB will probably make a developer API available... maybe.
>
> I'm never happy when innovative companies are acquired; the likelihood
> that moves will quit being maintained and be shuttered goes up
> significantly, although perhaps not as much as it would have with Google
> (which is famous for killing-after-eating). Moves is one of those
> endpoints we have *solely* relied upon up to now for high resolution
> contextual user data for INDX.  It's time for us to reconsider.
>
> This is key reason that I shy away from services.  You never know when
> they're going to go away - and leave you high and dry.  Had a really
> lively argument at the Linked Data Workshop this year after the Linked
> Data Fragments paper which cited that the major core linked data cloud
> endpoints have an average uptime of  ~90%, which makes them entirely
> unsuitable for use in deployment. Moves has had a much higher
> uptime/reliability, but now we realise how fragile things really have
> been. As TimBL said at WWW, "we need to build architectures of autonomy"
> - so if INDX is going to serve that need, we can't rely on services like
> Moves.
>
> So the appropriate reaction to the Moves acquisition regarding long term
> strategy is two fold 1) well, we really need a better solution that
> doesn't leak all of your private data to some server in Finland anyway,
> and 2) it will all probably be integrated into iOS/android by sometime
> next year anyway.  3) maybe some OSS hacker who has more time on his
> hands than I do will build one.
>
> I am just hoping the door stay open long enough for us to do our CHI
> studies this summer.
>
> In other news, Moves is now free again on the iTunes App Store. So, if
> you don't mind FB having all of your data, now's a good time to buy!
>
> Best,
> Max
>
> On Friday, April 25, 2014, Ramine Tinati <rt506 at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> <mailto:rt506 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     And also, Nike is stopping Fuelband...
>
>     http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/nike-fires-fuelband-engineers-will-stop-making-w
>     earable-hardware/
>     <http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/nike-fires-fuelband-engineers-will-stop-making-w
>     earable-hardware/>
>
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>     Subject: [Sociam-soton] Facebook buys fitness-tracking...
>     (theguardian.com <http://theguardian.com>)
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>     Facebook buys fitness-tracking app Moves
>     http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/facebook-buys-moves-fitnes
>     s-tracking-health-data
>     <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/facebook-buys-moves-fitnes
>     s-tracking-health-data>
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