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. [...]
Topic Archives: Social Networks
Micro-blogging: When Does A Trickle Become A Flood?
July 30, 2008 – 6:48 pm
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 [...]
Facebook, Beacon or Burden?
November 30, 2007 – 2:54 pm
Facebook have recently released Beacon. Beacon, part of the sites ‘new’ business products, enabling a brand or business to capture their user’s actions on their own website and send those actions to Facebook for Social Ad distribution into the News Feed.
This new form of behavioural targeting leverages the way social networks work in a new [...]
