One of the ways in which Web 2.0 can be characterised is by sites which deal with “presence”, i.e. short form communication, which is constrained to bite-sized chunks of information.
Twitter is a contemporary web phenomenon which illustrates the phenomenon very well. Calling itself a “communication utility” Twitter recently announced it has raised US$20.4m of funding. [...]
Category Archives: Social Networks
Micro-blogging: When Does A Trickle Become A Flood?
July 30, 2008 – 6:48 pm
Social Media Network Theory
July 23, 2008 – 10:22 pm
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This excellent slide show by Jyri Engestrom seeks to shed some theoretical light on the way social media networks function in terms of “social objects”. It’s pretty easy to make sense of even without the accompanying lecture, and if you’re interested in the way social networks currently function and [...]
Can Social Networks Improve Productivity?
July 18, 2008 – 11:23 pm
Social networks are having an increasing impact upon behaviour at work. For well over year now, we’ve been seeing press reports about one corporation after another banning the use of social networking sites such as Facebook. Yet we’ve also seen many reports of management using information found on social networks to make decisions to hire [...]
Using Video Conversation For Brands
July 17, 2008 – 1:54 pm
Using online video in ways which resemble more everyday communication has brought some key new players into the online world. Leading the way is Seesmic Inc. of San Francisco, which has been followed by Poodz, Viddyou, and the UK-based Phreadz. All of these sites offer “video conversation”.
In practice, this means that users get the facility [...]
Dabbling in Dopplr
June 2, 2008 – 12:10 pm
Recently, the New York Times interviewed Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, and when asked what his favourite non-wiki website was. His immediate response was “Dopplr….. I love it.”
Mr Wales has good reason to sing Dopplr’s praises; it really is an extremely innovative and original website, and one that is increasingly growing in presence and [...]
Google and the Social Graph
February 20, 2008 – 9:49 pm
Recently there has been mention of Google’s new social graph API (an API is n interface for letting a program communicate with another program over the web), the main question of course is what is it?
Well the best explanation we have so far, is
“it’s an automated tool that pulls all your social data [...]
Facebook leads the growth of Social Networks over the last 12 Months
February 8, 2008 – 4:20 pm
2007 was the year Social Networking (SN) really hit the mainstream and Facebook was its poster-child. The site, originally conceived for use by US college students, threw open its doors to the general public in September of 2006 and took just 12 months to reach and ultimately surpass all of its competitors. Audience figures from [...]
Facebook’s First Fight of 2008
January 3, 2008 – 6:40 pm
This story is still rumbling on, it started this morning when highly influential blogger, Robert Scoble, had his Facebook account locked. He had been violating the terms of service by running an automated script on FB to see if he could integrate the data he had on FB with that on Plaxo. As the day [...]
Recommendations as Search Results
December 28, 2007 – 12:58 pm
Recommendations have always been an important part of any decision making process when seeking out what you need. And the art of recommending is officially as old as the hills, so it comes as no surprise that in this modern age, a recommendation still holds a lot of weight.
After posting my last article about the [...]
What is Google Open Social?
December 14, 2007 – 2:40 pm
You may have seen a lot of talk about Google launching Open Social - so what is it? Well in a nutshell it is an API standard that other companies can use to open up their site and connect with other sites and apps. For people or companies looking to create an app to go [...]
