Modern Oil War of Web: SOCIAL DATA WAR

Facebook the Social Data Queen vs. Google the Personal Data King

“fight in the recommendation field”

Many people, including me predict that the next step of web technology will be about personalization. It will be about web, understanding and providing each users needs. This personalization  will be done by recommendations as a result of Semantic web. When the recent issues between Google’s Friend Connect service and Facebook are considered, it might be seen that the value of social and personal data, which are essential for personalization/recommendation engines, are increasing. In this post, I am going to discuss recent issues of Social Data War and what do companies aim to do with this data. I am also going to talk a little about a project of mine: Iletken which is much related to the issue. The last issue I am going to discuss will be the difference between Social and Personal data, which is hard to distinguish and rarely discussed. This discussion between the two data types can hold light to the real reason of the war between two data holders: Facebook the Social Data Queen, and Google the Personal Data King

Intellectual Property Rights & Life of a project: Botego

In this post, I am going to give a brief summary of how did one of my projects: Botego turned into a real commercial product and the reasons why I am not a part of it any more. The best lesson to be learned from the story below might be understanding how important it is to sign legal papers.

Edit: Ekim Nazim Kaya, old partner of mine stated that he will be taking legal actions against this blog. He stated that he will go to court and ask wordpress.com to shut this blog down. Even though I am nearly sure his application will not get any result because of the facts I presented in this article and also because I am not demanding anything, I’ll keep this post updated about what is going on in this issue. I also use my personal website: www.denizoktar.net

Edit2: Things are getting serious. People from botego started to insult  me. Check it. ( TURKCE )

Edit: Added some information about the early steps of the project. They will be in this colour.