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Last month, video provider Hulu made changes to its social sharing features. For Facebook users, it was great — Hulu made it easy to turn sharing on and off so that you don’t accidentally tell all of your Facebook friends that you just watched a video about ‘sex dice.‘ But for non-Facebookers, it was awful. the latter lost all their social features (including their friend lists) and were told they have to connect their accounts to Facebook if they want them back.
Before last month’s change, all Hulu users had “the ability to have friends, the ability to IM friends, and the ability to see friends’ activities and comment streams,” says a user named Karen. without warning all those functions suddenly disappeared and she was told to connect her Facebook account if she wanted them back.
People who were previously connected on Hulu through other means, such as Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo, were essentially disconnected; they can no longer share their activity on Hulu. the company says it prefers to use Facebook Connect because it’s such a strong social platform.
“Any friends that you had that were not Facebook-connected are gone off of your list now,” says JenSciFi, another Hulu user. “Any of your current Facebook friends that are also connected on Hulu were automatically added to your Hulu friends… You also can’t friend people on Hulu anymore, you have to friend them on Facebook, in order for them to show up on your Hulu friends page.”
Hulu users who prefer to keep their video friends separate from their Facebook friends were upset, complaining to the company and launching a Change.org petition. the protests are reminiscent of complaints about Spotify forcing users to sign up for their music service using Facebook accounts.
This is why I think Eric Jackson is wrong when he says that Facebook “could disappear in five years.” Facebook has set itself up very effectively as the identity management service that lots of other companies are using. It’s becoming the social spine of the Internet. Increasingly, we’re offered to opportunity to sign into a service using our Facebook accounts. And in some cases, as with Hulu and Spotify, that’s the only option we’re given.
The downside of this is that it’s harder and harder to keep separate identities on the Web, as Facebook’s one-identity ethos is adopted by other companies eager to use its platform. That’s bad for the “privacy and anonymity movement”… and could also be bad for Facebook. If too many companies make Facebook the only platform for social connections, antitrust-sensitive regulators in D.C. who currently have Google under their thumbs may start paying closer attention to the Google competitor.
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WASHINGTON — Comedian Bill Maher is putting his money where his mouth is.
The comedian and talk show host who has long railed on the weakness of the Republican presidential field announced at a stand up comedy show on Thursday that he would donate $1 million to Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama Super PAC.
“my surprise tonight is I would like to tonight announce a donation to the Obama Super PAC–which has the very unfortunate tongue-twister name ‘Priority (sic) USA Action’,” Maher said. “I know, it was named by Borat. but tonight I would like to give that PAC one million dollars.”
The concert, which was live streamed on Yahoo!, was held in San Jose, California and was billed by Yahoo! As the first stand-up comedy concert to be streamed live online.
In a tweet after the event, Maher said the announcement was a surprise to the Yahoo! organizers.
“Thank u everybody who’s hit me up after the show, and a great San Jose audience. Obama donation was a surprise to Yahoo too fyi!”
Maher, whose comedy show is called “CrazyStupidPolitics,” has not been shy about his opinions of the 2012 race and when he spoke with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, he said that other than Ron Paul, the Republican candidates running for president have “horrible society killing ideas about America.”
“The rest of those people are, of course, selling their souls to the corporate interests who back them,” Maher said. “they all act like god created the world in January of 2009, and then Barack Obama completely screwed it up.”
When asked in the same interview who he thought was going to win the 2012 electron, Maher quickly tapped the president as the eventual winner.
“my money is still on Mitt Romney,” said Maher when asked who the eventual Republican nominee. “And I think he’s going to get the nomination, and then I think Obama is going to beat him like a runaway sister wife, yes, I do.”
Maher’s million dollar donation will substantially boost the coffers of the Super PAC which raised only $58,815.83 in January, according to a report filed earlier in the week with the Federal Election Commission.
– CNN’s Matthew Carey contributed to this report.
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