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Last night in New Hampshire: The 'Facebook debate'

11:51 AM Sun, Jan 06, 2008 |
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ABC News/Facebook/WMUR debate: It's the Facebook part that stops me here.

Google News was full of wire reports about the debates themselves, but I was looking for background on Facebook's entry into the branding bonanza that leads to college football games named Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl and Roady's Truck Stops Humanitarian Bowl ("stops" is a noun there).

Google itself landed me at an August post at a Dublin blog pointing to an October real-world discussion of Facebook: The Facebook Debate. (Sorry if this link leads you to "You must log in to see this page." Facebook is like that.) The agenda:

Some of the views expressed so far include:

1) It's like AOL with a 'walled garden'
2) It's a black whole because it's easy to import information from other sources, but I'm unable to get my information out
3) It flies in the face of open standards
4) It reduces employee's productivity
5) It's the next Google with lots of trusted people recommending content that's approproate for me
6) It helps me to communicate with people more easily
7) It encourages me to communicate more often, helping me to build stronger relationships with people and organisations
8) It helps me to raise awareness for my products, services, events or brand.

It knows who you are.

Eventually, I found today's NYT Caucus blog post: Youth Enter Debate Through Facebook -- it provided a realtime focus group.

As for the debates themselves, The Two Debates Tonight Were Eye-Openers: Republicans Can't Even Get Along With Each Other! at OpEdNews and Instapundit's links wrap

Vaguely related: Which of the Presidential Candidates would you rather have a beer with in 2008? This might have been an Onion-like satire on likability trumping ability, but it's a promotion by the National Beer Wholesalers Association.

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