When entering data into Facebook, you're sending it on a one-way trip. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Unless they also have an account, they can't see it. Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a w
people all over the world are making a list of 365 people they've met during the course of their lives - people who left an impression and whose name they remember - then they're randomly writing a set number of words about someone on their list. They're
The real appeal of Twitter is almost the inverse of narcissism. It's practically collectivist — you're creating a shared understanding larger than yourself. [Meeting] Misha for lunch [after a month's absence], I already know she was nervous about last w
I want a social networking site for academics where we can upload journal articles, book chapters, whatever source material we want, tag them appropriately, and create knowledge/school constellations depending on what we’re currently reading and working
I'm a big believer in Information Architecture as a community of practice, and I also believe it's good for such a community to have a "home base," especially if they're a virtual organization spread all over the globe like ours.
Social networking sites create a central repository of personal information. These archives are persistent and cumulative [18]. Instead of replacing old information with new materials, online journals are archive–oriented compilations of entries that ca
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Profilactic is a digital lifestyle aggregator that makes it easy to keep up with all of the content you and your friends create online. Aggregate all your online profiles. Mash up all your created content. Aggregate your friends' content. Clip and archive
Reviews social networking site aggregators (profile aggregators): Spokeo, Hypeit, Profilefly, ProfileLinker, and Profilactic. Commenters discuss portals: Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle...and lifestreaming, social streaming, or streaming presence sites li
Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.
The age of ubiquitous computing is here: a computing without computers, where information processing has diffused into everyday life, and virtually disappeared from view. How will we learn to make wise decisions about something so hard to see?
For social networks, the key representational issue is the development of network models whose properties reflect the social reality. Future network models must represent aspects of this reality in a social context, including individual agents’ beliefs
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Walls of an auditorium were covered with thousands of sheets of paper — printouts from MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and other online sites that were filled with back-stabbing gossip, unflattering images, and details about partying and dating exploits.
When it comes to online privacy, I keep these two things in mind: 1. Eventually, despite your best efforts, any information (personal or otherwise) could become universally accessible. 2. The only way to protect yourself from the potentially neg
“Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes
Landscaping firms says "We choose not to work for homosexuals" in response to email from prospective client. Like any true WOM phenom, an email received by a gay couple in Houston TX has been making the rounds online and bloggers are jumping on this emai
Basically, you don't...you do not pitch to webloggers. Or, at least, if you plan to do so do not expect an answer because there are great chances that people will ignore you and move on. So what can you do then ? [A]s a company who is eager to share prod
"Use The Network To Find An Expert Or Locate Implicit Knowledge Only a fraction of an organization’s "knowledge" exists in databases. Another fraction exists in the form of explicit documents and reports that may be found on an organizational intranet
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Spannerworks, a search engine marketing company, has published a handy dandy guide to social media (PDF). The ebook covers the basics of blogs, podcasts, social networks, tagging, communities and Second Life.
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Clickable article giving an overview of history, distinctions and definitions, potential uses, current manifestations, and permutations of this thing called (conveniently, but not accurately) 'Web 2.0.'