DISQUS

"Truth is it doesn’t matter." - Robert Scoble. B.S. to that, big time.

http://twitter.com/andrewbaron/status/1219010436

People! The big point here is that Facebook does not need to own it perpetually. Most other platforms will stop use given a reasonable enough time for them to take it down from being publicly available.

It's not needed to operate, its just needed to be greedy. A take-away from people who don't understand what they are doing. Think about how much this increases the assets of the company! One in five people who visited the internet last month, visited Facebook. People are sharing twice as much this year, as they did last year. Facebook *owns* all the media and everything these people are coming to obtain. You do the math. You relinquish your data to the market-pool forever more, but it's the only place where it happens and it doesn't need to be this way.

Facebook has the option to remove the "perpetual" part of this term, just like YouTube, Vimeo, iTunes, Flickr, etc. did.

Chris, you are WAY wrong about this. Consider my perspective with Rocketboom:

When I upload a video to YT, they can do whatever they want, but if I decide to take it down, from that point fwd, YT cant do anything with my videos anymore.

What if in 30 years from now, people look back at Rocketboom to visually track some of the day-to-day trends of the internet and it becomes in demand suddenly for nostalgic reasons; If I want to try and use that content to do business, Facebook could put the content out for free or modify it and include it with other packages, or do whatever the want to compete with me and undercut my sales because they will own the right to forever do whatever they want.

For Christ’s sake Chris, this is very serious. Do you think I would sign a document that I send into the copyright office for my work that includes my name as well as Facebook on every sheet? You think Disney is going to put one of their videos on Facebook without a special contract?

Why should I give away my content to Facebook? They might sell to Disney, and then Disney would have the right to do what ever they want, even after I close down my account.

Please read some more. Here are some links to consider:

Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2009/02/16/facebook-tos-pri...

Slashdot (scroll down to read comments):
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/09/02/16/1347230.shtml

Grasshopper??? That's an inch worm, moving slowly.

Fair enough, thanks for responding.

Mathew, thanks for pointing it out but you are being biased with your interpretation of this story, IMO.

Out of everything Ive said on this topic, dozens of comments - you happen to pick out the single only comment that I leave that is not formal and then you left out the first part of my comment where I mention that *this one comment* was "off topic" and had to do with defending my personal self from Jason, but not the topic matter at hand. Pims and Daddies is his language, check out the tweets he was sending before hand, most people were saying that he was acting like a 3year old. I also had people emailing me saying not to worry about Jason, he speaks without thinking things through but he is a good guy.

Almost everything I have had to say on this topic had been formal and academic and the reason why I bring it up is because Im tired of being poked by Jason. He started this, he perpetuates it and now its part of my life. I can choose to ignore it, but instead choose to defend myself, just like Im doing here.

Also, conspicuously, and on the contrary, Jason has had only one formal thing to say recently and you found it. The other 99.9% of his response has been to attack me personally while avoiding the questions about Mahalo.

I'm lucky I have the choice to not live *right on top* on an active fault line, on the side of a steamy volcano, or in the path of a regular Hurricane or Monsoon season.

I wonder if her lawyer got paid in doll hairs.

Nice one Chris, how do you turn this stuff around so fast?

Leon, Im glad I found you here. I wanted to message you on Twitter but of course I couldn't because clearly you dont follow me.

I did want to say that for sure you are taking it the wrong way. This is not how I treat my friends, this is social experiment that came out of a creative moment before I deleted my account.

I think you are right, though now the trend will be to bring it all back together.

Way to go Robert!!

Hey yall, we have one of our field correspondents who has been in Kenya all this time. We have three episodes up already here:

http://rocketboom.wikia.com/wiki/Kenya

On Monday eve, we have another one coming in, its getting worse, not better.

I would suggest as just one option looking into a relationship with just one or two mid-to-long term sponsors who already understand the value of Mashable (and maybe that you already know) to help flip the bill to get you up and running.

Then, once you are up, you can take some more time to look for ad solutions as they mature.

Lots of different ways still yet uncovered to be forged.. . .

Sarah Meyers will be there **live** full-time with Popsnap:
http://www.popsnap.net

Cheers Robert! As great as this post was, I have to say, it was just another post in context of all of the great posts you have cranked out, thanks for spreading all the great insights and info in such a positive way.

Plenty of good inspiration for 2008!