How can I not blog about this?

There is little that I am compelled to say that Danny Sullivan has not already said about this, but at the very least I wanted to throw up a post with a link to his post, as this is a really important move by Facebook.

Amidst, a see of people referring to Facebook as a walled Garden, or AOL 2.0, the move to open up public profiles seems to contest these accusations. 

But what does it all mean? To start, a lot of the new, people search engines, are going to be in trouble, but to be honest, that is of little interest to me. I am much more concerned with the implications this will have on SEO, as well as matters pertaining to digital identity and the move towards creating a single, public digital identity online; one which has the ability to aggregate information from all social networks (eliminating the need to recreate yourself and regain creditability across various engines).

That is all I have to say for now. I am going to keep digging through articles, formulate my thoughts and get back to you

…at least they give you the choice and make it easy to find how to opt out of being public.

Tags: Facebook, Walled Garden, AOL 2.0, SEO, Search, Public Profile