Yahoo 360! Gets into Blogging and Social Networking
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Yahoo 360 blends bl0gging, social
networking
Yahoo 360 blends bl0gging, social
networking
03/17/2005 03:49 AMXinhua News Agency Mar 17 2005 7:19AM GMT
Yahoo Service Combines Blogging, Social
Networking
Yahoo Service Combines Blogging, Social
Networking
03/17/2005 03:23 AMYahoo will begin beta testing Yahoo 360, which combines blogging tools
with social networking, as it aims to help people "do a better job of
keeping up with the relationships that they already have."
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive
Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First
Social Site to Integrate Blogs with
Social Networking & Online Dating
Features
08/13/2004 12:47 PMeTwine.com integrates new interactive blogging tool with its existing
social networking, online dating, and event planning features.
Members can share their blogs entries with friends and other members,
as well as rate other blogs, add comments to any entry, and sort
entries by most popular and highest rated in this unique feature.
[PRWEB Aug 13, 2004]
Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
05/22/2004 05:16 PMI'm speaking at the Churchill Club on blogging and social networking,
June 3rd in Palo Alto. Should be lively event, moderated by Dan
Gillmor and Tony Perkins. Other panelists include Jason Calacanis,
Charlene Li, Mark Pincus and Ben Smith. These...
Churchill Club Event: Blogging & Social
Networking: Who Cares?
Churchill Club Event: Blogging & Social
Networking: Who Cares?
06/20/2004 05:17 AMChurchill
Club Event: Blogging & Social Networking: Who Cares?
Marc Canter, The Devil's (or Angel's?) Advocate
Last night, the Churchill
Club sponsored an event entitled, "Blogging & Social Networking:
Who Cares?" As it turned out, at least 250 people who attended the
event care. In fact, by the time we arrived, the Crowne Plaza Cabana
Hotel parking lot in Palo Alto was already filled with Mercedes, BMWs
and Porsches. (Somebody must have made money during the dot com
boom.)
The whole evening had a "1994" feeling to it. There was a sense of
optimism and enthusiasm that we hadn't seen since we attended the
first Internet World Conference held in San Francisco in September
1994 at the beginning of the Internet boom.
The meeting was a moderated discussion with the following
participants.
Panelists:
* Antony Brydon, CEO, Visible Path Corporation
* Jason Calacanis, Chairman, The Weblogs, Inc. Network
* Marc Canter, CEO, Broadband Mechanics
* Charlene Li, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
* Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext
* Ajit Nazre, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
* David Pell, Electablog.com
* Mark Pincus, CEO, Tribe Networks
Moderators:
* Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News
* Tony Perkins, Creator & Editor-in-Chief, AlwaysOn
The stage when thus set to talk about what many of the panelists
described as Internet 2.0, with Internet 1.0 spanning the 1994-2002
timeframe. Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News said that blogging
and social networking have now enabled the Tim Berners Lee's initial
vision for the web as a "read-write" environment as opposed to the
"read-only" content consumption focus of Internet 1.0.
Ross Mayfield of Socialtext put further meat on the bone by asking
the question: What changes might we expect when:
1) Weblog software platforms drive the cost of publishing to
zero?
2) Social networking platforms drive the cost of creating and
organizing group activities to zero?
A number of the panelists pointed to the significant impact of
weblogs and social networking on politics with Howard Dean's
presidential campaign held up as a prime example of the savvy use of
these platforms. As a San Jose Mercury News article dated 2/10/2004
said, "The forces the [Dean] campaign unleashed -- and the people who
discovered they had a chance to change things -- aren't going to be
rebottled anytime soon."
Dan Gillmor asked the most interesting question of the night
saying, "How long will it be before a President of the United States
is elected that had a weblog as a teenager?" What makes this an
interesting question is that anything that we contribute to the Web is
effectively "unerasable."
Staying in the political realm, David Pell of Electablog.com
imagined that, "Sometime soon, maybe even now, oppressed women in Arab
countries will begin using anonymous weblogs to draw attention to
their plight in a way that 60 Minutes never could."
Politics aside, the real question on many people's minds was: "Can
you make money doing this stuff?"
There was a significant amount of disagreement on this topic with
the CEOs of the social networking companies predictably saying that
"There's gold in them "thar" hills," and Marc Canter, also
predictably, playing the devil's advocate, telling the VCs to "Stay
away and not screw things up."
My own personal feeling is that the impact of both the social
networking and weblog platforms will be significant but, speaking from
a biased perspective as an entrepreneur in this space, the financial
benefits will accrue to the "little guys." I believe this because, I
share the viewpoint made last night that, both weblog and social
networking software platforms will become open-source commodities. The
value-add will come as entrepreneurs apply these platforms to
under-served niche markets. These markets, by definition, will be
small in scale creating many small profitable private companies but
very few, if any, large public companies.
Perhaps Internet 2.0 will allow thousands of entrepreneurial
flowers to bloom creating an era of "Cottage Commerce," a term coined
in the early 90's by my long-lost friend, Michael Grant, formerly of
Apple Computer and Macromind.
Then again, I could be dead wrong. What do you think?
Use the power of Internet 2.0 to share your comments.
-Tim Fredel, Co-Publisher, RuggedElegantLiving.com
Yahoo! 360, Social Networking and Viral
Marketing
Yahoo! 360, Social Networking and Viral
Marketing
04/01/2005 10:39 PMSearch Engine Journal Apr 2 2005 2:58AM GMT
Yahoo tests blend of bl0gging,
networking
Yahoo tests blend of bl0gging,
networking
03/17/2005 03:49 AMGlobe and Mail Mar 17 2005 7:25AM GMT
Blogs + Social Networking + Photo
sharing = Yahoo 360š
Blogs + Social Networking + Photo
sharing = Yahoo 360š
03/17/2005 02:48 AM360.yahoo.com
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Yahoo To Combine Blogs, Social
Networking (TechWeb)
Yahoo To Combine Blogs, Social
Networking (TechWeb)
03/17/2005 04:08 AMTechWeb - Yahoo said it will launch in beta at the end of the month a
service that combines web logs with social networking.
Yahoo Buys Flickr To Boost Social
Networking
Yahoo Buys Flickr To Boost Social
Networking
03/25/2005 04:56 PMCIO Today Mar 25 2005 9:19PM GMT
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
03/23/2005 04:46 AMLaunched this month, Apcala is a web system that allows you to share
photographs, audio, video, documents and personalised profiles with
friends, family, other Apcala users and the Internet at large. It’s
advertising free and free to use. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]
Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
Online Dating Innovator eTwine.com
Officially Launches its Wildly Popular
Social Networking and Online Dating
Website with Several Thousand Members
Following Completion of Beta Testing
Phase. Unique website integrates online
dating with social networking, event
planning, and bl0gs.
09/15/2004 02:13 AMeTwine.com has officially launched its unique online dating and social
networking website after several months of beta testing. eTwine
integrates online dating with social networking, event planning &
management and an interactive blogging tool to create the most
complete social site on the net. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
Social people don't need social
networking
Social people don't need social
networking
12/14/2003 09:54 PMKevin Werbach points out that social networking sites like LinkedIn
and Tribe and so forth have very little to offer highly connected
people like Esther Dyson, who would nevertheless be a real asset to
the network:
Esther and Pierre don't need LinkedIn to reach pretty much anyone they
want to contact. Yet there are a whole lot of folks who want to reach
them, and don't have a personal connection to do so. So the service
worsens their email overload with little corresponding benefit.
LinkGet Yer Social Networking Here
Get Yer Social Networking Here
01/24/2004 09:30 PMSometime in December, somebody flipped a big switch and all of a
sudden everyone was inviting me to join their
Linkedin network. Then suddenly
last week the Kozmick Finger pointed at
Orkut, and near as I can tell, all
the geeks on the planet have spent this weekend busily inviting each
other to be Orkut pals. It all seems mostly harmless; mind you, I
haven’t actually got any use out of either of ’em. For what
it’s worth, all the Orkutians seem to be heavy geeks, while about
half the Linkedincrowd is VCs and businesspeople. I don’t think
it’s gonna change the world, but I’ve been wrong before. To those
whose invitations I’ve declined: sorry, nothing personal, it’s
just that I feel I ought to either have spent some face-to-face time
with you or been in some substantial online interaction.
Social Networking?
Social Networking?
08/17/2004 05:42 PMSo I have this account - that I spent some time setting up and
inviting people to by the way - on one of the social networking
services, but I can't remember which one.
Anti-social networking
Anti-social networking
06/17/2005 04:25 PMGlenn Fleishman writes in the NY Times about a Seattle cafe that gives
free wifi on weekdays but is wifi-free on weekends in order to
encourage conversation......
Social networking for fish
Social networking for fish
11/17/2003 03:07 PMKen Rinaldo's amazing 'augmented reality robotic fish tanks' will have
their first showing in Lille on the 6th Dec: "Augmented...
Rescuing Social Networking
Rescuing Social Networking
06/17/2005 03:27 PM
Recent reports of the demise of
Social Networking Applications (SNAs), voted "technology of the year"
by Business 2.0 just two years ago, are increasing. Most recently
C|Net's Molly Wood reported on Five Reasons
Social Networking Doesn't Work. While LinkedIn and eCademy are
hanging in there, many of the other entrants into the SNA space are
really struggling. I reported
last year on what I thought was wrong with the first generation of
social networking applications, and I haven't seen any significant
improvements become mainstream since then.
Wood complains that existing SNAs offer the user little to do, take
too
much time, don't provide a customized audience, are socially awkward,
and don't provide much that other features of the Internet don't do as
well or better. It's not clear what problem they're trying to solve,
other than to provide a list of not-very-well qualified contacts for
people online who are looking (mostly for customers, employers or
dates). They remind me a lot of Chamber of Commerce meetings, with
consultants and agents outnumbering 'real' businesspeople, five
sellers
for every buyer. I belong to several SNAs but use them rarely, since
my
blog provides me with a more robust network than any SNA could ever
hope to do.
The challenge, as with most business and social problems, is getting
attention. Because good stories, useful, researched advice and
helpful,
informative conversations command attention, these are the tools of
the
trade in face-to-face networking events. Face to face meetings also
provide a huge amount of non-verbal information that allows people to
make considered judgements and to establish trust, which virtual
forums
can only accomplish awkwardly, and over time.
The lowly telephone, and Skype, are an improvement. Most of us can
converse iteratively faster and more competently in a voice
conversation than in a message thread, and get past the awkwardness
and
misunderstandings faster as a result. I've had some excellent Skype
conversations with people I have never met in person, and some ghastly
ones. I have proposed
a more robust, multimedia, multi-view Simple Virtual Presence (SVP)
tool such as what is illustrated above. There are people more
technologically competent and agile than I am who are achieving such
presence using a combination of tools now, but for most of us this is
still just a dream.
SNAs are therefore inherently not very good for building relationships
or for collaborative work. How are they at finding people for valuable
personal or business relationships? Once again we're back to the too
many sellers, too few buyers problem (it's the same with dating
services, I'm told). Useful SNAs need to be under the control of the
customer, not the vendor. They would be better advised to reinvent
themselves as a kind of very detailed person-to-person 'yellow pages',
to separate users' 'what I have' and 'what I need' personas, and to
focus specifically on the former, in a lot more detail, with
credentials and samples of offerings. In a way, that's what blogs do,
providing a space for one individual to exhibit as much of himself as
possible in as much detail as possible, which is why many recruiters
are now starting to peruse blogs in the search for extraordinary
people
or matches for very difficult fits. So a good SNA could offer a
condensed version of this: Who I am, What I offer, Who recommends me,
and Samples of what I do. Then the buyer can browse this 'catalogue'
and, if he thinks I might have what he's looking for (personally or
professionally) he is given contact information (ideally with the
richness of Simple Virtual Presence) to confirm through conversation
that my offer meets his requirements. Simple as that. Forget about the
discussion forums and the form-filling and all the other bells and
whistles that just complicate use and chew up time. Just give me a
yellow pages on steroids.
Once some standards emerge on formats for this information, it could
then be possible for people to post this information anywhere, in the
agreed-upon 'SNA2' format, so that we would no longer have to post my
information to each SNA 'yellow page' directory -- the SNA tools could
go out and harvest it automatically wherever we posted it, so we would
only have to maintain it once
(perhaps on our blog-jacke
t, personal website, or other online space).
So then we would have three
easy-to-use SNA tools, working in tandem, all built around the
'customer', the guy looking
for something:
- The
standard-format 'yellow pages' displaying our personal 'offerings',
- A Simple
Virtual Presence tool to qualify those offerings and to enable
powerful conversations, and
- Blogs as
'personal filing cabinets' that people could browse if
we were away from our phone/SVP tool, or if they wanted to see some
more of our stuff before attempting to call us and offer us a job, a
contract or a date.
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What
would really make SVP cool would be if we could meter
it, so that
the tool could track time we spent on each call and, with the
agreement
of the
other party, automatically bill them and pay us for our time at an
agreed-upon rate. Because it's the value you add person-to-person,
helping them in their personal context, once the introductions are
over
and they know they've found the person they want to 'hire', that could
finally realize the promise of online commerce.
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Bringing social networking to everything
Bringing social networking to everything
04/25/2004 02:40 AMI'm sorry I disagree.....[read response after
article].......
The next
big thing in online social networking.
According to Reuters Social networking sites, which look to
introduce friends of friends or people with common interests, have
grabbed the attention of Internet users and venture capitalists but
many are still looking for ways to make money.
Online dating siteTickle (
>2million profiles) launched a People Search
service on its network that includes AskJeeves' . The partnership fuses the
uncertain social networking phenomenon with a search model that has
proven invaluable to both consumers and marketers on the public
Internet.
Kolabora news expert Scott Allen blogs in his Social Networking
News: According to Tickle CEO James Currier, “Search is a natural
way for online social networking to move forward”. (..) "Tickle
people search brings online search full circle, back to letting us
find the right people to talk to.”
Reuters press release (April
22)
read more in the full articles quoted from three blogs
- Ask Jeeves Brings Search to Tickle (ClickZNews)<
BR>- Jeeves, what’s the next big thing in online social
networking? (Online Business
Networks)
- Education — the real "next big thing" in
online social networking (Online Business
Networks)
[Smart Mobs]
I'm certainly in favor of putting social networking into context -
but search is not a context. It's sort of like getting it
backwards.
It's not about bringing search to social networking. It's
about bringing social networking to everything.
Transcendental Social Networking
Transcendental Social Networking
02/10/2004 09:21 PMStewart Butterfield and Co with some really groovy stuff. Motto: Don't
build application, build contexts for interaction. The architecture of
entertainment has been shaped by the idea of Immersion. Play is about
people, not places [Thumbs Up] to this. Architecture...
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
Lycos tries to tap into social
networking with new look
02/11/2004 08:34 PMAnother recently debuted site is Orkut.com, designed by a Google
engineer, though the site's connection to the search company is
unclear. ...
Decentralised social networking
Decentralised social networking
01/05/2004 10:24 PMI know I'm late to the party, but my recent experiments with
LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of
software that bulids on top of people's own social networks. There's
just one thing that's been bugging me, best explained by this quote from Om Malik:
The question I have is: why the F**K should I share my network of
contacts with these commercial entities. They are like BlogSpot that
does nothing for my brand equity and in many ways chews me out after
making the network connections. Thus what I want is a "MoveableType"
of social networking. Blogs took off because it was about one person -
me. My social networks should be of my making for me. Lets figure out
a way to cut out the middlemen.
Via John Battelle, here's the
answer: Plink, a social search engine which uses information crawled
from decentralised FOAF
files. It's nicely put together and could be just the incentive I need
to finally put together my own FOAF file.
Plink is also a nice example of the kind of thing the semantic web
hopes to offer. People provide information in easily parsed formats,
then others bulid third party applications on top of them that may
never have been envisaged by the creators of the original standards.
Feedster is another great
example of this effect in action.
Fees come to social networking
Fees come to social networking
01/27/2004 12:09 AMTickle, the Friendster competitor formerly known as Emode, is first
out of the gate with fees for some social networking services.
Social Television Networking
Social Television Networking
06/28/2004 05:22 AMWhile lots of media companies have been trying to figure out how the
whole "social networking" phenomenon impacts their business, it looks
like AOL is trying to take the concept to the next level while also
being true to their plans of "convergence." They've patented the
concept of
buddy
list TV sharing. The idea is that you could see what your friends
were watching on TV and immediately tune in yourself. It's not too
hard to see how this would work. Already, the latest version of Yahoo
Messenger includes the ability to see what music your friends are
listening to and immediately tuning in yourself. This idea tries to
go a bit further. For instance, someone could set up a chat room
around a particular TV show, and could then play that show, while
everyone else could discuss it in real-time. To understand what
you're watching, it would require a set-top box that would tie into
your internet connection as well. Of course, it's unclear how such a
system will work in an age of TiVo when no-one watches a show at the
same time.
Social Networking Hangover
Social Networking Hangover
02/10/2004 02:41 AMAs many, many people have predicted, there's a point at which all of
these social networking services become... kind of pointless.
Everyone piles in, and "connects" with anyone they've ever emailed and
then you get the big
"um... what do we do now?" question. It appears that
despite the early rush into sites like Friendster, the fad is losing
steam, just as it did five years ago with sixdegrees.com. It's cool
for a few months, and then you realize there's nothing else to do.
The various services are desperately trying to add on features that
will bring back users and keep them engaged, but it turns out that the
thing that seems to attract most people to these sites is the signing
up and linking part - and after that, there's not much interest. The
article includes the interesting stat that, despite five million
registered users, Friendster received less than 1 million unique
visitors in December.
Social Networking Blues
Social Networking Blues
01/25/2004 05:16 PMI'm on Ryze. I'm on LinkedIn. I never touched Friendster. For some
reason, Orkut appealed to me. Perhaps its the "in affiliation with
Google" tagline? It's getting to the point where we need a Trillian
for these types of sites. FriendFan is coming. Microsoft already has
Wallop. When will it ever end? How many friends does one really need?
Infinity (plus one). Won't you be my neighbor?...
social networking as a web service
social networking as a web service
01/27/2004 02:23 AM
These folks totally groks it..... (their names
are Grant and Cyndie Berg.)
back and
forth over the social portal play. Zawodny on the point
missed: Stokes misses it not just once
, but twic
e.
Om nearl
y follows him off the "they just want my rolodex and why should I
give it to them" cliff, but veers at the last instant and manages to
strike a glancing blow at a worthy target by alluding to social
networking services embedded in client applications -- and spawns some
interesting comments.
Marc Canter's beating the FOAF drum
again. I'm looking forward to peopleaggregator's next
rev. Sifry's apparently working on FOAFing up Technorati, too. It isn't an
accident that Sifry's tagline is web services for
bloggers.
Anyway... back on topic...
Look, Friendster didn't get
$10m solely on the basis of its current business model. It sure as
shit didn't get it on the basis of its software / infrastructure [and
I hope they're spending some of that money on some
engineers].
They got it because, as Jon Udell and others have
pointed out (can't find link -- may be misattributing),
user-contributed data is a valid currency for the next generation of
online [web] service[s] businesses. And anyone who can succeed at
being a primary conduit for user contributed data which has bearing on
purchase decisions and product / technology adoption/popularity has a
great opportunity.
What Stokes seemed to miss, which Jeremy
alluded to initially and Marc re-iterates from another
vector:
"The place to make the money
is by adding value added, functionality, tools, services - what have -
AROUND these most basic of all instinctful notions. Not by charging
for the right to do them - in the first place!
So a
PeopleFinder or FriendRanking or Introduction manager or Private email
or IM enabler kind of platform - would be augmented with value added
tools - to become a new business model. This what I mean by 'new kinds
of tools."
... is that web services technologies
are going to enable a Friendster, an Amazon, and a Google to operate
in a unified manner delivering synergistic services to groups of
connected (define it any way you want) people with shared
interests.
This is what people are hopping up and down about,
and I think there's some solid cause [lineofsight - code + words +
pictures]
I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy. 2004 is looking to be pretty
interesting.
Is Social Networking a Snore?
Is Social Networking a Snore?
06/25/2004 05:22 PMDavid Hornik (Venture Blog): All
Social Networking Panels Are the Same. So in an effort to save
you a bunch of time and aggravation, here's a transcription of this
evening's event. I believe that it is essentially a transcription of
all past and all future social software panels, so read it and free
yourself of the need to ever attend such an event yourself.
Really, read it for yourself...
Social networking is NOT a market - dude
Social networking is NOT a market - dude
05/04/2004 07:45 PMNo Business in Social Networking. David Coursey
can't find the value in paying to find out who his friends know. So
where's the business model for LinkedIn, Ryze and other business
"social networking" sites ? [eWEEK.com
Messaging and Collaboration]
Somebody please tell David Coursey to stop thinking that social
networks are the answer. They're only the path to
enlightenment. Yes people are important - but people as a
business model is nto going to happen - and is a no-no anyway.
It's what you do WITH the people that matters. Why is that so hard
for folks like DavidCoursey to grok?
Google's Social Networking Entry
Google's Social Networking Entry
01/25/2004 10:32 AMGoogle Tries Out Its Own Friendster-Style
Service: The social networking space is getting awfully crowded,
capped now by Google's entry.
The launch of Orkut comes after Friendster's rejection
late last year of Google's offer to buy the site that has become known
as an online venue for hooking up friends of friends.
It also arrives as new social networking sites are cropping up at a
frenzied pace, fueled by venture capital investments in companies like
Friendster and the business-oriented networking service
LinkedIn.
Still doesn't beat Dogster,
which prompted Anil Dash to plead, "Please God, make it
stopster."
Click here to comment on this entry
New Social Networking Service from
ObjectsSearch.com
New Social Networking Service from
ObjectsSearch.com
03/22/2005 04:55 PMObjectsSpace is a new free service designed to let users stay in touch
with friends and colleagues. [PRWEB Mar 22, 2005]
be kottke's social networking proxy
be kottke's social networking proxy
01/27/2004 01:21 AMwill accept testimonials for food
Eurekster Social Networking Engine
Eurekster Social Networking Engine
01/22/2004 02:11 AM"...trying to combine the social networking craze with search engines.
Invite your friends, form a group, and get searches personalized based
on the group search habits."
Lycos Taps Into Social Networking (AP)
Lycos Taps Into Social Networking (AP)
02/11/2004 04:32 PMAP - Terra Lycos, trying to carve a niche in a Web portal realm
dominated by its rivals, hopes an overhaul will make it a major player
in the trendy Internet field of "social networking."
Are Enterprises Ready for Social
Networking?
Are Enterprises Ready for Social
Networking?
01/07/2004 01:53 PMWhile vendors prep new offerings, enterprises are looking for examples
of ROI and assurances that the technology won't violate privacy or
damage hard-earned relationships.
Towards a non-evil social networking
service
Towards a non-evil social networking
service
01/26/2004 11:29 AMWithin an hour of the launch of Orkut, Google's new YASNS (Yet Another
Social Networking Service), I had written a mail filter that silently
discarded invitations to join (it's the same filter that tosses out
mail from Ryze, Friendster and all those other services, which drive
me completely bonkers, since I already know who my friends are, am not
actively trying to get laid, and don't need the "service" of having to
risk offending near-strangers who want me to confirm some notional
"friendship" between us a dozen times a day and I
certainly
can't think of a good reason to entrust some commercial outfit with my
personal relationship data).
Do these things have to suck? Damnifiknow. I know that
there's a bunch of stuff I'd like from a social network
analysis of my own inbox, voicecalls, and so forth. Today, I have an
iTunes playlist ("Old friends") that just plays highly rated songs
that haven't been played in the past 30 days. Why not a smart to-do
list that reminds me to email old friends that I haven't called or
written in the last season (credit: Alice)? Hell, how about something that gives me a distinctive
ringtone for calls from out-of-touch old pals and the option to define
attention-grabbing behavior (a chime, a prioritization, coloring) when
they email?
Foe Romeo talks about how Google could have launched a YASNS that
actually provided a useful service that end-users could still control
but that Google could add a lot of value to: a FOAF explorer:
Google would not create its own closed social network, Orkut, but would instead make
FOAF one of its quick searches,
so that FOAF:Fiona Romeo would return my FOAF file as the primary
search result, with friend and location filtering options. (Content
about Fiona Romeo would also be returned but would be differentiated.)
Perhaps Google could add value by introducing a sense of
authentication to FOAF, by indicating reciprocal links between
FOAF files. I know that this result for Fiona Romeo is the correct
one because her friends link to it. Oh, and I know that Matt
Jones is really a friend of Fiona Romeo, because he says so too.
(Plink, a FOAF search tool, gets this bit right.)
Link
Lycos Taps Into Social Networking
Lycos Taps Into Social Networking
02/11/2004 08:34 PMAnother recently debuted site is Orkut.com, designed by a Google
engineer, though the site's connection to the search company is
unclear. ...
Online Social Networking MiniGuide
Online Social Networking MiniGuide
08/27/2004 01:30 PMI have just completed my latest Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link
Compilation titled "
Online Social Networking" and
this 13 page research paper lists many resources both new and existing
that will help anyone who is attempting to do information and
knowledge research about
online social networks currently
available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (674KB)
at the below link from the
Virtual Private
Library™:
Online Social
Networking an Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation
by
Marcus P. Zillman,
M.S., A.M.H.A.http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Online Social
Networks.pdfSocial networking sites are not very
secure
Social networking sites are not very
secure
01/04/2004 06:13 AMlack of security social network sites have .. virtual identity theft
.. SecurityFocus .. Cet article
securityfocus.com/news/7739
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