Openbook (Facebook)
Encyclopedia
Openbook is a Facebook
-specific search engine
, built upon Facebook's publicly available API, which enables one to search for specific texts on the walls of Facebook subscribers en masse which they have denoted, knowingly or unknowingly, as being available to "Everyone," i.e. to the Internet at large. Both an avowed parody
of Facebook and an Internet privacy
advocacy
website, it was built by San Francisco website developers Will Moffat, Peter Burns and James Home within a few hours on May 12, 2010, and has received nearly six million page views in its first two weeks on-line from over a million people in over two hundred countries. The website has received extensive media attention from, among others, the Wall Street Journal, NPR and ABC News
, including international coverage.
facebooksearch.us offers similar functionality without the pro-privacy commentary.
Fbcounter.co.nr is another facebook specific search engine that offers the ability to see realtime ajax powered results on how many people are talking about a specific topic on facebook. It was launched on 23rd June 2011 by Toni Edward Solarin.
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
-specific search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
, built upon Facebook's publicly available API, which enables one to search for specific texts on the walls of Facebook subscribers en masse which they have denoted, knowingly or unknowingly, as being available to "Everyone," i.e. to the Internet at large. Both an avowed parody
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
of Facebook and an Internet privacy
Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively...
advocacy
Advocacy
Advocacy is a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an...
website, it was built by San Francisco website developers Will Moffat, Peter Burns and James Home within a few hours on May 12, 2010, and has received nearly six million page views in its first two weeks on-line from over a million people in over two hundred countries. The website has received extensive media attention from, among others, the Wall Street Journal, NPR and ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
, including international coverage.
facebooksearch.us offers similar functionality without the pro-privacy commentary.
Fbcounter.co.nr is another facebook specific search engine that offers the ability to see realtime ajax powered results on how many people are talking about a specific topic on facebook. It was launched on 23rd June 2011 by Toni Edward Solarin.