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.
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
In social networks, some individuals interact with more people and more often than others. In this context, one may wonder: under which conditions are social beings willing to be cooperative? Current models proposed in the context of evolutionary game the
This post is part contribution to the general Web 3.0 / Data-Web / Semantic Web discourse, and part experiment / demonstration of the Data Web. I came across a pretty deep comments trail about the aforementioned items on Fred Wilson's blog (aptly title
Del.icio.us tags aren’t like meta keyword tags because of the Del.icio.us Lesson. Meta keyword tags provide no personal value whatsoever. All of their value is social. They’re for aggregation engines to find and tell other people about. In other words
A user with an XFN Friendly blog, blogroll, or web site, can use that site as a nexus for linking together all their otherwise disparate and isolated social networking sites, by linking from those sites to their blog, and then linking from their blog to t
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
Automatic semantic annotation of information content is an open problem, but is crucial to the realization of the Semantic Web. Annotation systems require the initial definition of an ontology and as well as a knowledge base. Both of these resources work
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
Sample blog post: Valdis Krebs, June Holly, and Jack Rizziuto have launched a web site for their collaborative, Networkweaving, from which they also blog. (Great picture, guys!) Their work truly is collaborative and they are finding resonance in their wor
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
Hawkee is a social network that focuses on social software and social shopping. Our members are active developers and consumers who share a fond interest in technology. From video games to PHP scripting we cover a variety of topics for the technically inc