A great speech by Jyri Engestrom, co-founder of Jaiku and sociologist. In the first part of his presentation he explains his concept on socio-material objects. 49:40, very down-to-earth.
"iPhone users are the perfect group to launch the network to. They’re passionate and elitist, and will like the idea of being in an iPhone-only club. Go to a party and see a picture and first name of everyone there who’s holding an iPhone - then meet
"22% of Americans use SNS. Broken down by age range, 67% of those age 18-29, 21% of those 30-39, and 6% of those 40+ use SNS. Based on 1430 respondents, margin of error should be about +/- 3%."
"Die Plattform für Studenten ändert zum Jahreswechsel die Geschäftsbedingungen. Folge: Die persönlichen Daten der vier Millionen Nutzer können an interessierte Unternehmen verkauft werden. Handynummern, Mail-Adressen, Hobbys, Musikgeschmack – alles
"Die meisten Befragten gaben vielmehr an, bisher keine Geschäftsbeziehungen über die Plattform geknüpft zu haben, oftmals aber interessante Kontakte aufgebaut zu haben, von denen sie sich in der Zukunft einen Nutzen versprechen. Statt durch neue Verbin
"It’s not enough to petition the likes of Facebook to give us our data. We need to create the rules by which our data can be used. When we sign on as “members” of some company’s “social network”, they need to sign our terms as well. From the s
"Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks."
Mashable Invites is a place to swap invites for "Web 2.0" sites that are currently in private beta mode. Just add your name to an invites list and other Mashable Invites members will drop by and invite you.
In the last several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of many social web applications. While most of our attention gets paid to the hugely successful ones like YouTube and Facebook, we can also learn a lot from those that have failed. Here are some of