Aaron Strout : Citizen Marketer

Zuckerberg Gets a Redo

• (from me) Care to elaborate one what went wrong during yesterday's Keynote? You got a lot of negative press on Techmeme, TechCrunch and from Scoble.
  
  Zuckerberg: We actually had this developer's garage meetup scheduled. Given the fact that one of the biggest knocks on yesterday's session was the fact that people didn't get a chance to ask enough questions, I thought it would help to come by and do some additonal Q&A.
  
  
• Why do people spend twice as much time on MySpace as they do on FB?
  
  Zuckerberg: I don't think that's true.
  
  
• Will some of the "friends lists" be given out to developers so that they can incorporate some of the new privacy features into the applications that they are creating?
  
  Zuckerberg: Yes, there are API's for friend lists.
  
  
• I don't know if I'm unique but I have a different set of behaviors that I like to display to different constituents. Is this addressed by new privacy settings?
  
  Zuckerberg: You can have a friendlist of one. You can also decide who sees what types of activities. Our goal is to allow
  
  
• Can you talk about your plans for commerce? Also, can you talk about OpenSocial and whether or not you can committ to all social networks - at least those of size?
  
  Zuckerberg: No, I can't commit to that because I'm not convinced that other social networks may or may not do it right. The best that we can say now -- and that should be demonstrated in our actions -- is that we are philosophically aligned with the concept of data sharing. Right now, we're taking a wait and watch approach. Regarding commerce, we're just creating a commerce platform for developers (yes, this was as much of a non-answer as it sounds like.)
  
  
• How are you approaching internationalization? China in particular?
  
  Zuckerberg: We're thinking a lot about how we go into other countries, particularly China. We are trying to decide on whether or not we have servers there and become subject to their laws. It's tricky.
  
  
• I have a number of friends that signed up for FB a while ago and they are active on the Web but they are no longer using FB.
  
  Zuckerberg: We've done a poor job incentivizing people with the ecosystem. For instance, if someone adds your application, limiting the number of people they can send the application to will be removed provided they aren't spammy. Otherwise, they will have stricter rules they will need to follow. This might be judged by number of downloads. This should be good for everyone and increase engagement.
  
  
• Lena from Hallmark asks if Zuckerberg can talk about roadmap. Can developers get access?
  
  Zuckerberg: Additions to the Beacon program are happening. One of the important issues is data portability.
  
  
• Scobleizer asks a question about getting kicked off FB for a day. He got a lot of pushback from his readers about doing this i.e. this was wrong. Scoble asks if Mark would care to comment?
  
  Zuckerberg: This is a really important question but I'm not sure if anyone knows the answer to this question. As I mentioned earlier, we are definitely philisophically aligned with data portability. We need to iron this out, particularly with bigger social networks. In your particular case, you were data scraping which is against our policy.
  
  SIDENOTE: Scoble asks a question about getting re-instated. He's heard that a number of people around the world are getting kicked out. Zuckerberg says that he didn't hear the question. ;)
  
  
• There have been accusations of discriminating against groups, in particular Palestinians and Israelis.
  
  Zuckerberg: We've decided to follow the United States regionalization laws so that we can get out of the middle of the politics.
  

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