FOAF facilitates the creation of the Semantic Web equivalent of the archetypal personal homepage: My name is Leigh, this is a picture of me, I'm interested in XML, and here are some links to my friends. And just like the HTML version, FOAF documents can b
Blog by visiting professor at the Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California. Good links. "Social networks are social systems with abstract and concrete relationships. It can be regarded as social relations that connect informa
Think of trust as the currency of social capital. Managing trusted relationships is a complex and risky social, emotional, and strategic problem. Social networking systems are still fairly new, so while earning the trust of their users is being increasing
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
Social Design, run by John Emerson is focused on what I would call socially-conscious design, whereas I’m exploring design that focuses on how people interact socially. So, do you know of any other people, outfits, orgs that focus on social design? (ot
Good knowledge is clean knowledge where the intent of the creator is to inform, not to promote or sell. On the Internet, preserving the purity of knowledge is exponentially harder because the knowledge, or the visibility of the knowledge, is frequently de
XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people
A page full of buttons for bookmarking (simultaneously, if desired) to sites like del.icio.us, magnolia, digg, furl, spurl, reddit, blogmarks, feedmelinks, and so on.