The social web: All about the small stuff - The Diigo Meta page

• 23 Sep 08
  

  Brynn Evans

  From the Google blog: they argue that the benefit of the social web and social technologies is that people are able to stay close to friends because they are aware of the small events going on daily in their lives.

  social web technology lifestream

  • I'd argue that a big part of it is the small details that you know about each other.
  • ie they saw two nights before. Closeness often comes from knowing the small things, not just the big things. Distance makes knowing those small things harder. When you live together, either with your family or your friends, knowing the small things is easy. They get con
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  • • The promise of the social web is about making it easy to share the small stuff -
    • Social features will be embedded and around and through all variety of spaces and places on the web
    • The web will connect people to the small moments that in many ways matter most.
    • We're just now starting to navigate all the intersections between sociology and engineering on the web
• 16 Sep 08
  

  Rene Clausen Nielsen

  "We're just now starting to navigate all the intersections between sociology and engineering on the web."

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• 15 Sep 08
  

  Ejner Jensen

  @ToRead SocialNetworking

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