( image ) Dialing in from the department of Pure Speculation… As we all attempt to digest the implications of last week’s Google+ integration, I’ve also be thinking about Facebook’s next moves. But I don’t think Facebook will create a search engine, at least not in the way we think about search today. MORE >>

In this post I will share a sample high-level action plan from these efforts. Listed below are a set of sample suggested steps and a sequence. Sample initial action steps are listed under each main step. Write the “about this blog section” which covers your objectives, content coverage and any relevant policy issues. MORE >>

But even as Lessig was putting the finishing touches on the second version of his manuscript, a new force was erupting from the open web: Facebook. In Code , Lessig enumerates several examples of how online services create explicit codes of control – including the early AOL, Second Life, and many others. That word was “Facebook.” MORE >>

One of my pet peeves about our industry is how slowly we change – I understand it takes a long time to gather consensus (it took three years to get AdChoices rolled out, for example) – but man, why don’t the big players, like Google, innovate a bit more when it comes to display advertising? MORE >>

For his part, Robert Scoble says that Google’s rollout of brand pages is flawed in a number of crucial ways, despite the fact that the company has been working on this feature for some time, and has an obvious model for how pages should work in Facebook. Can Facebook offer that? Facebook Google Google Plus social networks MORE >>