A Conversation with Bret Taylor
summary
Argues that products improve when they add social context and points to concrete features: open graph and the new timeline plus an activity log that lets users browse, delete, and change privacy on every shared item, a checkbox that lets friends export email addresses, smart friend lists and a download your data export, and a Subscribe feature that boosts engagement. Notes the platform supports ~800 million accounts, emphasizes data portability limits are social and privacy tradeoffs rather than technical.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and FriendFeed
- 1:26Google Plus and social products
- 3:52Data portability challenges
- 7:43Privacy controls philosophy
- 8:24Activity logs and timeline
- 10:10Advertising and power users
- 12:41Balancing power users and simplicity
- 14:25Facebook's long-term role
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