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20 Oct 09

Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to Face - NYTimes.com

  • But for many urbanites in their 20s and 30s, two other questions are just as important: Where are you, and can I come join you?
  • “On Twitter, there are more than 3,000 people that follow me, and Facebook is more of a business community now,” said Annie Heckenberger, 36, who works at an advertising agency in Philadelphia. “Foursquare is more of the people that I actually hang out with and want to socialize with.”
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10 Aug 09

Cosy social networks 'are stifling innovation' - tech - 05 August 2009 - New Scientist

  • IT'S a dirty job, but someone's got to do it: for innovation to thrive on the internet, we must break up the very social networks that the web has made possible.
  • Previous research has shown that certain patterns of social interaction make radical innovation more likely. Bold ideas are typically incompletely formed when first conceived and easily shot down by criticism. Hence, they emerge more readily in communities in which individuals work mostly in small and relatively isolated groups, giving their ideas time and space to mature.
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12 Jun 09

apophenia: Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody

  • What Dylan is pointing out is that the issue is that Facebook is public (to everyone who matters) and Twitter can be private because of the combination of tools AND the fact that it's not broadly popular.

apophenia: is Facebook for old people?

  • I asked her if her friends also gathered on Facebook and her face took on a combination of puzzlement and horror before she exclaimed, "Facebook is for old people!"
  • He messages with his mother and his youth pastor on Facebook and he waxes elegantly about how he thinks that Facebook is just as popular among adults as it is among teens. He believes that the reason that people switched to Facebook was because it was more "mature."
13 May 09

Pasek

  • A recent draft manuscript suggested that Facebook use might be related to lower academic achievement in college and graduate school (Karpinski, 2009).
  • In none of the samples do we find a robust negative relationship between Facebook use and grades. Indeed, if anything, Facebook use is more common among individuals with higher grades. We also examined how changes in academic performance in the nationally representative sample related to Facebook use and found that Facebook users were no different from non–users.
12 May 09

The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is What's Next - NYTimes.com

  • Paul Buchheit built the first version of Gmail in one day. Then he built the first prototype of Google's contextual advertising service Adsense, in one day as well. Now he's working on a much-watched startup called FriendFeed that he believes just brought to market the next big form of communication online: flowing, multi-person, real-time conversations.
  • "The open, realtime discussions that occur on FriendFeed," he says, "are going to become a major new communication medium on the same level as email, IM and blogging." That's a pretty ambitious claim, but Buchheit has the credibility to make it.

Rest in Peace, RSS

  • It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift.
  • All my RSS feeds are in Google Reader. I don’t go there any more. Since all my feeds are in Google Reader and I don’t go there, I don’t use RSS anymore.
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07 May 09

Luv is all around MySpace | Technology | The Guardian

  • The majority of comments throb with emotion, and that cool aunty comment has a positive emotional strength factor of five.
  • That is, according to Professor Mike Thelwall, who is analysing hundreds of thousands of MySpace comments to understand how people use emotion when they communicate with friends in social networks, and whether there are good strategies for applying it.
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10 Apr 09

Facebook privacy settings 'could mean users give away personal information' | Technology | guardian.co.uk

  • "People don't even think this graph data, these connections between people, is private information, but it's very useful for certain kinds of individual," Joseph Bonneau, the paper's lead author, told the Guardian.

    "It's something the intelligence services realised some time ago – when they wiretap a phone, the most useful information is who calls who, not what's actually said."

    Identity fraudsters and phishers – scammers who pose as one of their target's friends, encouraging them to click on a message that downloads a virus onto a computer – are among the prime candidates for abusing such information.

    "If you have a person you're targeting, you can use the Facebook public listing to look at their friends, compromise them and then see your target's information," Bonneau said.

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