5 days ago
Linkorama : Know the Net - When you know the net you can quickly get to the information or resources you need in your local community.
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28 days ago
philgyford : BuddyPress " About BuddyPress - "The idea of BuddyPress is to take a standard vanilla installation of WordPress MU and turn it into something that represents more of a community building tool, or niche social network." (via Oblomovka)
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28 days ago
philgyford : About The DiSo Project : DiSo Project - Building social networking tools using open tools and standards, starting with WordPress. Not enough there for me to quite "get" it yet. (via Oblomovka)
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1 month ago
Linkorama : Wealth of Networks Event - With each step in how computing networks have emerged, first connecting machines and then connecting people, the value has increased exponentially.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : [reboot] Jyri Engestrom on “Nodal Points” - Jyri Engestrom, whose company, Jaiku, was bought by Google, is talking about “Nodal Points: The emerging real-time social Web.”
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Linkorama : How a G.P.S. Can Predict Group Behavio - Reality mining raises instant questions about privacy, especially when cellphone data is involved.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Data chart of the week: social networks around the world - If you have the bandwidth of south korea, usage is huge!
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5 month ago
Linkorama : SocialText Putting A Little Social Into…Enterprise Wikis - TechCrunch
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Socialtext enterprise wiki getting social network features - Webware
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Enter the socialprise - Socialprise applications sit at the junction of traditional enterprise applications and social networks, and they are a mash-up of the information and the user experience between these converging universes.
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere - This kind of social intelligence can be applied across many services on the open web. Better yet, if there is no pressure to make a business out of it, it can remain intimate and discreet.
factoryjoe : Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com - Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: facebook, social networks, bebo, aol
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6 month ago
philgyford : Lunch over IP: What social networking site is popular where - A map and charts showing relative popularity of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, etc in different continents. Amazing how much it varies. (via ChrisDodo)
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6 month ago
plasticbag : Kellan points out some of our interesting choices on Fire Eagle. The things he points out are spot on... - I really think is worth talking about why we didn't do a social network. Lots of services manage the social graph and Fire Eagle can be hybridised with all of them. Why would we make the effort?
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9 month ago
Linkorama : The only real social networks are personal ones - Third, I’m not sure social networks are “built” in any case. Seems to me they’re more organic than structural.
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Social Cognition Made our Heads Explode - On the dunbar number of 150
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12 month ago
Linkorama : We Are Opening the Social Graph - An open social graph is just as important as an open identity.
Simon Willison : Six Apart: We Are Opening the Social Graph - Six Apart: We Are Opening the Social Graph. Six Apart put their cards on the table with respect to the social graph problem—focusing on OpenID, XFN and FOAF as enabling technologies. Be sure to watch the screencast demo of their new social graph visua
factoryjoe : Six Apart - News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph - Dave details the Six Apart approach to opening up the social graph. Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: six apart, portable social networks, social networks, social graph, dave recordon
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16 month ago
jonhicks : I'm socially inept, but I joined Facebook anyway
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Cumulative Advantage and Social Influence - The common-sense view, however, makes a big assumption: that when people make decisions about what they like, they do so independently of one another. But people almost never make decisions independently — in part because the world abounds with so many
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18 month ago
Linkorama : twittermap - VERY cool mashup
Khoi Vinh : Twittermap - Twitter plus Google Maps mash-up.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Shuzak.com explores the anatomy of a successful social network - It's not a particularly surprising article—suggestions include have a purpose, don't push reputation, be useful, be niche, don't whore your ads too much—but it's still pretty clear and reasonable...
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Putting the Fun in Functional - Amy Jo Kim on game design
WillPate : Game mechanics in social software
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Danah Boyd is trying to collate current research on Social Network Sites - I might steal this idea. I'm looking to find some interesting stuff around collective intelligence and social motives.
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26 month ago
Linkorama : Closure - An important feature of social capital is what Coleman termed “closure†– where the people one knows also know each other.
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