Like locked cell phones and copy-protected music, Facebook is on the wrong side of the open-network debate. Facebook is a sealed bubble. Facebook users are locked into Facebook, just as iTunes locks music fans to Apple's iPod.
Enterprises lack understanding around value added and "competitive advantage" derived from the social tools such as social bookmarking & social networking sites. This is driven by fear.
"If Facebook allowed users to differentiate between their professional and social relationships and control what parts of their profile are visible based on relationship type, it" could be the end of LinkedIn...
The Ning Playground is a language-neutral sandbox/run-time for creating and running social networks and applications. Today, applications on Ning are created in PHP and Javascript, using our PHP and Javascript APIs. In the future, this architecture can be
Combine all of your social sites, bookmarking sites, blogs, personal or business websites, playlists, and more into one personal 'folio,' or 'profile.' Massive number of options and sites available. Privacy concerns? Well...
A human-filtered collection of the best writing from the Social Media Collective, a diverse group of bloggers, consultants, investors, entrepreneurs, journalists, and analysts who represent the web's best thinking on social media...
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