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Social networking software continues to
grow
Social networking software continues to
grow
12/02/2003 03:08 AM
Social software, applications which enhance human collaboration,
continue to spur new software . Projects including Friendster , Tribe.net , Ryze , and
Eliyon are populating and connecting users into social networks . FOAF develops a standard for
networking, while
Microsoft is considering a
move in this area.
The popularity and perceived efficacy of social software is
perhaps part of a patent drive to claim the six degrees of
separation as intellectual property , or small
world theory, which supports many of these collaboration engines.
This interdisciplinary theory, perhaps most powerfully developed in
social network analysis
, has been applied to a variety of fields, including
internet structure and security .
(thanks to Clara Yu!)
K-Logs: How Social Networking Software
Helps and Where it Doesn't
K-Logs: How Social Networking Software
Helps and Where it Doesn't
01/07/2004 06:25 PMM2M. David Weinberger critiques social
networking software (rightly).My take:
There isn't
any magic in social networking software. The value this
software provides is much more basic than many people think.
Here's what it provides:
- It contains solid (but private) contact information on all
members.
- Profiles are available on each member (on LinkedIn you can put in a
resume).
- There is a safe, formal method of requesting contact with other
members you don't know. This is like UserLand's spam
free e-mail.
- The connection info (you know D through B and C) is more of a
gimmick than something that provides real
value. There is a small amount of comfort involved in knowing
how you are connected to other people (you can also get info on how
many people they are connected to, which is like a PageRank for social
networks). This is the part of these networks that confuses everyone.
- There is a search function for finding other members based on
information in the profile (interests, company, job title,
etc).
Now that we have demystified social networking software, let's
think about how to apply the features in an open system that works in
conjunction with weblogs. The current systems are too closed and
limited to be of much long term value. Here's my thinking:
- Solid information on weblog authors. It
would be great to have standardized weblog profile and contact
information. Currently, contact and profile information on
weblogs, if it is there at all, is all over the
map. It really sucks. Sure, you can read what someone
is writing on their weblog, but you often need ESP to determine who
they are, what they do, etc.
- A safe way to share contact information.
Way too many people publish their e-mail address in the clear on the
their weblogs. There should be a way to restrict that (via a
spam free e-mail feature) that would allow the weblog's author to
release solid contact information (e-mail, phone, address) to readers
that they authorize.
- Search!! This is a simple and powerful
feature. Want to find Microsoft or Google webloggers?
Why wait for someone to build a list that may or may not be out of
date? A search function on social networking profile
information derived from weblogs would solve this quickly and
with much more accuracy than a random Google search.
- Categorization. Have a look at Jon Udell's lists of CXO
webloggers on the right hand side of his weblog. How easy would this
be to create if you had solid contact information contained in a
social networking system. In fact, you could build directories
on the fly customized to your needs based on good profile
information.
- Community and portability. The advent of
open profile information would allow people to create custom
communities. There is a lot of power in creating ad hoc
communities of members using this type of information. It could
also be used to allow members of that community to build contact lists
in other applications (e-mail and IM) that are constantly and
automatically updated (a new role for Newsgator -- creating auto
updated contact lists for e-mail apps).
OK, this would be very, very easy to do in the weblog world if
we start right now. All that is needed is a simple standard
for an XML profile (as simple as RSS -- which only Dave seems able to build)
that can be published by weblog authors in a form on their weblog tool
of choice. If the vendors (UserLand, Blogger, and SixApart) did
this, within weeks sites like Feedster and Technorati would have tools that
took advantage of that information. This would then usher in a
whole new deluge of innovation similar to what we are seeing in RSS
today. Let's put Friendster out of business and open this up.
Former Softies Developing Longhorn
Social-Networking Software
Former Softies Developing Longhorn
Social-Networking Software
02/10/2004 02:52 AMFour former Microsoft execs have banded together to create "The Graw
Group," a company developing social-networking software for .Net and
Longhorn.
Kottke hires a social networking
software aide (FriendsterHelper)
Kottke hires a social networking
software aide (FriendsterHelper)
01/28/2004 02:34 PMKottke posts a brilliant rant on the incredible laboriousness of being
poly-FOAFed:
Overwhelmed by the amount of work necessary to keep up
with all my friendships on Friendster, Orkut, and all the other social
networking sites, I've posted a job opening over on craigslist for a
personal social coordinator:
* Permanent full-time position for a personal social coordinator for a
New York-based web designer.
* Your primary responsibility will be managing my accounts with
various online social networking sites including, but not limited to,
Friendster, LinkedIn, Tribe, Orkut, Ryze, Spoke, ZeroDegrees, Ecademy,
RealContacts, Ringo, MySpace, Yafro, EveryonesConnected, Friendzy,
FriendSurfer, Tickle, Evite, Plaxo, Squiby, and WhizSpark.
There's even room to grow in the position:
* Future duties may include discouraging companies and individuals
from starting new social networking sites so that additional staff
won't be necessary in the future. Past employment as a bouncer,
"heavy", or
hired goon may be helpful in this regard. (...)
Link (
thanks,
Jonno!)
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]
Flikr is the newest offering from the
clever kids at Ludicorp. If you only try
one social networking software this
year, make it Flikr
Flikr is the newest offering from the
clever kids at Ludicorp. If you only try
one social networking software this
year, make it Flikr
07/06/2004 01:45 AM .. flickr beta ..
Flickr
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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]
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.
LinkSocial 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.
Get 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 Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)
Social Issues Surround Social Software
(Ziff Davis)
06/25/2004 10:06 AMZiff Davis - Participants in the Supernova conference give insight
into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking
services, Weblogs and wikis.
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 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 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.
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. ...
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......
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...
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.
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.
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?...
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 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...
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.
Next generation Social Networking
systems
Next generation Social Networking
systems
02/14/2004 02:34 PMOrkut put up a special Valentines Day feature yesterday - which I
used to it's fullest capacity!
It a really simple messaging system - which enables folks to attach
an image, a pre-canned statement and colorize the background of this
'virtual Valentine. The nicest thing is that it appears on the
top of your personal page - and is formatted perfectly! And
normal messaging is turned off.
What this shows is that Orkut is actually breaking out of the mold
of YASNS. Sure the spam feature is inane and may well 'cause
it's demise, but at least he's willing to try something new!@
$%#^$%^%#$&%^#$#
As danah says - everything needs to be put into context and it's
clear Orkut really DOES think of his system as a dating machine.
Right on! Focus and context is key!@^%$&%^$
So what else makes up a NEXT generation social network?
Well make sure to check out Ludicorp's new Flickr system. I've been trolling
around it this morning and I've YET to find anything wrong! Now
I just need to get soem friends to exchange photos with and IM
with.
Flickr is the first social net to intergrate IM and to use the
social net for something BESIDES just mating or buying classified
ads. Watch for a new generation of systems that treat
social networking just as another crucial feature - just as Multimedia
and the Internet are thought of today. I mean - who WOULDN'T
build a system today without media or on-line built into it?
That's where we're going with social nets!
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?
Social Networking Vendors Aim for the
Enterprise
Social Networking Vendors Aim for the
Enterprise
01/07/2004 01:53 PMHaving started beta tests and raised funding, a string of vendors are
ready to launch new offerings in the new year that promise to expand
users' business connections.
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 Stretches its Reach
Social Networking Stretches its Reach
04/09/2004 03:58 PMTwo smaller companies move to integrate the concept of mapping social
connections with mobile-phone text messaging and with Web
conferencing.
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."
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...
Online social networking: Friend or foe?
Online social networking: Friend or foe?
01/26/2004 07:41 PMGoogle recently unveiled an online social networking service, dubbed
Orkut www.orkut.com, that it hopes can successfully compete with the
likes of Friendster. ...
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. ...
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]
Social 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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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."
Yahoo 360! Gets into Blogging and Social
Networking
Yahoo 360! Gets into Blogging and Social
Networking
03/17/2005 02:33 AM"Yahoo Inc. is preparing to introduce a new service that blends
several of its Web site's popular features with two of the Internet's
fastest growing activities blogging and social networking."
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."
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1UP: putting social networking into
context
1UP: putting social networking into
context
07/03/2004 01:29 PM
I've waited a
few days for it to settle - but it looks like the world's first digital lifestyle aggregator is live! It's called
1UP.com - and put out by Ziff-Davis Media.
Yes - THAT Ziff-Davis. After selling off their on-line properties
to CNet (including Dan Farber and the ZDNet crowd) - Ziff-Davis is
back in the on-line business in a big way.
They appraoched me in December (thanks to Geoff Workman) to help
them build a killer, no holds barred, get a lot of attention and go
out on a limb - cutting edge system - which would combine social
networking, personal publishing and what ended up to be 26 portal
front-doors.
The site is about gamers and gaming.
It puts social networking into a context of gamers by matching them
up to each other - based upon what games they own, what games they
want to play and even matches wish-trade lists.
There are some NEW things for social networkers - like a PeoplePlace - that feature both
People and Club 'pings' and a nice Facewall search results screen.
Gamers can search for folks via name, location, games, interests, age
or game genre - or any combination.
There's all sorts of folks coming to the site - from wunderkid editors and gamerdudes to grannie gamers and metro sexual gamers.]
There's an 11,000 game database built in, and your typical game
portal features - like cheats, downloads, reviews, top 10 lists, news
- blah blah blah - the list of features goes on and on.
I'm having fun with customers - creating custom clubs, special
promos and eventually new kinds of tournaments. We created allot in
four-five months, so we're not done yet, but you can expect this
system to support RSS, FOAF, OpenReviews and every other new format
coming out representing new kinds of micro-content and
communications.
This will be THE site that all the other gaming sites will copy in
the next 12 months. In the mean time - there's plenty of other ways
of positioning DLAs - into web services, content, on-line communities
and all sorts of brands.
Hardware and software companies will ALL offer DLAs within five
years - so the only question is: "who comes first?" In each
sector DLAs will change the playing field - making it possible for
after-market revenues, viral marketing and sticky happy customers.
So now all my ranting and raving may make sense.
Gamers review games, like to buy things and certainly want to
interact with each others. Watch for a traveling roadshow to connect
cyberspace to meatspace "meet your cyber buddy at the Cow Palace!"
Gamers are blogers now, have lots of friends and are joing Clubs in
droves. Oh yah - for every action a gamer does, he/she gets points -
which are then used for contests and to redeem objects.
So the next time someone asks "what's a DLA" - you just tell them -
1UP.com.
So what's YOUR context? Been wondering how ot make sense of social
networking and personal publishing? Let Broadband Mechanics get you
there.
We plan on building lots of these DLAs over the next five years -
before we get bought out. Apple and Microsoft are doing it - so
should YOU! So we're open for
business - interested parties inquire here.
BTW - in case you're wondering - I'm "TheMacroMind".
Grok Description matches for Students unleash campus social networking software
GrokA matches for Students unleash campus social networking software
College Facebook Mugs Go Online
College Facebook Mugs Go Online
06/09/2004 05:38 AMOn university campuses, students cherish their facebooks -- paper
booklets that serve as student directories with mug shots. Now, a
bunch of Harvard students are taking the concept nationwide with a
student-focused social network. By Rachel Metz.
Facebook Online College Community
Facebook Online College Community
12/28/2004 07:40 AMWashingtonpost.com - Tue Dec 28, 07:09 am GMT
Learning plenty with Facebook
Learning plenty with Facebook
01/02/2005 11:01 AMChicago Tribune Jan 2 2005 1:10PM GMT
Orkut members launch Orkut Paranoia
community about Orkut TOS on Orkut
Orkut members launch Orkut Paranoia
community about Orkut TOS on Orkut
02/10/2004 10:42 PMGeez. My head is spinning. Anyway, BoingBoing reader Adam fields
points us to a new "Orkut community" (one of many online affinity
groups within the social networking service), called "
Orkut
Paranoia" (link requires free membership). Adam says, "This
formed out of some interesting discussion we've had about what's going
on... summarized in this blog post:"
1) Orkut claims irrevocable unlimited license rights to everything you
post. Most people don't understand what that means. One example of
this is that many of my friends have posted pictures that I've taken.
This is probably not a problem, generally, but they've granted Orkut a
license to use them without consulting me, and created a legal tangle
should I have a problem with that, forcing me to have to perform a
legal struggle with Orkut, because of their unwitting actions. I think
this is rude behavior on the part of Orkut, but their prerogative to
demand.
2) Orkut may share personal information with Google in an unrestricted
way. Google is unwilling (so far) to discuss what use they may make of
that information.
3) Google's privacy policy possibly has some holes in it with regards
to data collected by way of means other than use of the google.com
website.
I suspect that Orkut is a way for Google to gather personal
information about their clientele for marketing purposes, and to try
to form a more solid relationship beyond "I just use Google for search
because it's convenient". This is not terribly nefarious, but the kind
of data that could be collected to do so has wide potential for abuse,
and people should be aware that that's what's going on. Some may not
care, but many people I know are signing up without reading or
understanding the implications of the above three points.
Link
orkut, google's social networking app
orkut, google's social networking app
01/22/2004 08:41 PMmy mom still does not have her own social networking service yet
Orkut - Google Social Networking
Orkut - Google Social Networking
01/23/2004 02:22 PM Google (kinda) Offers Social Networking
called Orkut Acording to this
CNET artice,
Orkut is the outgrowth of a personal project by Google Engineers Orkut
Buyukkokten. He created "Orkut.com in the past several months by
working on it about one day a week--an amount that Google asks all of
its engineers to devote to personal projects".
And oh, by the way:
"
Membership to orkut is by invitation only.
If you have a friend who's a member of orkut, have them invite you
to join."
Google eyes social networking with Orkut
Google eyes social networking with Orkut
01/23/2004 07:38 PMGoogle is edging into the social networking space popularized by
Friendster, launching on Thursday a networking site created by one of
its engineers. ...
"Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service"
"Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service"
01/24/2004 02:52 PMOrkut.com Social Networking Engine in
Affiliation with Google
Orkut.com Social Networking Engine in
Affiliation with Google
01/23/2004 02:26 PM"The move comes in the wake of rumors that Google wanted to buy social
networking service Friendster last year and just a day after Eurekster
launched, a social network service that refines search results."
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking
Service
01/23/2004 02:22 PMGoogle employee releases social networking service .. orkut,
google's social networking app .. released to the public ..
Search Engine Watch .. invite
only
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site | 9 links
Tech Scholarships for
College/University?
Tech Scholarships for
College/University?
01/05/2004 05:27 PMMirkon asks: "I'm a potential high school graduate, and have been
accepted to a four-year school for furthering my rather biased
educational interests. The ...
Oxford Students Hack University Network
Oxford Students Hack University Network
07/15/2004 11:52 PMCollege and University Professionals for
Human Resources to upgrade their
association management software
College and University Professionals for
Human Resources to upgrade their
association management software
09/23/2004 03:24 AMgomembers, Inc. (http://www.gomembers.com), a leading provider of
association management and membership software announced today that
the College and University Professional Association for Human
Resources (CUPAHR: http://www.cupahr.org/) has upgraded their pinnacle
software solution. [PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]
College using Social Security numbers as
default passwords now suffers hack
College using Social Security numbers as
default passwords now suffers hack
06/06/2005 12:06 AMProfiles In Success: Columbia
University, College Of Physicians And
Surgeons -- Bringing Training To Life
Profiles In Success: Columbia
University, College Of Physicians And
Surgeons -- Bringing Training To Life
12/08/2003 11:21 PMIf someone who's learning to do a procedure has carefully watched a
video... the total time needed to train that person could be
dramatically reduced -- by as much as half. So for us, Final Cut Pro
is an incredibly valuable tool." (Apple via MyAppleMenu)
Students Going Off to College Can Take
Their Outlook Email with Them on a
Portable USB Flash Drive
Students Going Off to College Can Take
Their Outlook Email with Them on a
Portable USB Flash Drive
08/31/2004 02:11 AMP.I. Protector software from imagine LAN provides an easy way for
students to carry and access their Microsoft Outlook email on a
portable USB flash drive [PRWEB Aug 31, 2004]
Jacobson Resonance Enterprises, Inc.
Updates Research Findings with Mammary
Carcinoma Cell Types from the College of
Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State
University
Jacobson Resonance Enterprises, Inc.
Updates Research Findings with Mammary
Carcinoma Cell Types from the College of
Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State
University
08/09/2004 11:33 AMDr. Jerry I. Jacobson, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Science and Technology Officer of Jacobson Resonance Enterprises,
Inc., (OTC BB: JRSE.OB News) reported today new insights from the
ongoing study on human breast cancer cells utilizing the Jacobson
Resonator. [PRWEB Jul 30, 2004]
Preston College launch state of the art
Wireless Network.
Preston College launch state of the art
Wireless Network.
08/23/2004 03:16 AMPreston College have this month deployed a cutting edge 5.8GHz Band C
Wireless Solution, in association with Cardinal Newman College to
deliver High Speed Internet Access to the local communicaty and
college outreach sites. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]
Company Claims Orkut Stole Orkut Code
Company Claims Orkut Stole Orkut Code
06/30/2004 07:19 PMIt's not like it's particularly difficult to write a social networking
systems. These days, at the rate new ones are coming out, it
practically seems like a typical first year CS student's project.
Still, a company named Affinity Engines that builds social networking
products for universities (that just so happens to have been founded
by Orkut Buyukkokten - the creator of orkut.com) is now
suing
Google for stealing their code. From the article, it sounds like
they have a pretty solid claim. First, it's obvious that Orkut had
access to the code. He even continued to work on it while he was at
Google. According to the lawsuit he promised repeatedly that he
wasn't going to work on a similar app for Google, but then did so
anyway. The real damaging point, however, is that Affinity Engines
claims they've found nine identical bugs in Orkut that are also in
their own system -- which certainly makes it quite likely the basic
code is the same.
Orkut OD: TOS hack, and craziest
community yet
Orkut OD: TOS hack, and craziest
community yet
02/16/2004 08:08 PMBoingBoing reader Larry sends an interesting "loophole" for Orkut's
much-bemoaned TOS:
I noticed that people have been making a stink about Orkut.com's TOS
lately, saying that it reserves the right to do pretty much anything
with content posted to Orkut.com. I was actually a little more
disturbed by another item from the TOS. Orkut.com forbids "directing
any user (for example, by linking) to any Materials of any third party
without such third party's prior written consent." That runs counter
to the ethics of practically everyone on the Web, right on up to Tim
Berners-Lee himself. So I made a PHP hack so Orkut users can strictly
comply with the letter of the law in the TOS, but still point to any
site they want on the Web without guilt. The URL I give here is just
an example of how it works; as you can see, it refers to bOING bOING.
There are no specific instructions on my site yet for using my hack,
but I may remedy that if needed. In the meantime, anyone on Orkut has
my permission to use it. Link
... while
Jason Schultz sends us a
link to something that wins my vote for zaniest/most paranoid Orkut
community ever:
"PONZI: For those who believe orkut is a Ponzi scheme, fans of Ponzi
schemes, or those who think Ponzi was on Happy Days. It's all about
the Ponzi is all we're sayin." Link
Eurekster, social networking search
engine, now out of beta
Eurekster, social networking search
engine, now out of beta
01/22/2004 02:44 AM
eurekster, "the only search engine with personalized results,"
launched today after several months of beta testing. The site
promises to "show you What's Hot with your friends... results get
better as you invite more friends." Is there a word for that
post-Friendster/Tribe/LinkedIn/SixDegrees oh-god-not-again feeling I'm
getting as I read the launch announcement? Like, HTML rug
burn? I mean, really -- I haven't played around with eurekster
yet, and I mean no disrespect to whoever built the project. But if one
more website asks me to "invite all of my friends," I swear I'm gonna
fucking throw up. Invite your own damn friends, you website.
Anyway, link to Eurekster,
link to a slew of
news articles, and toda
y's launch release (which explains that Eurekster's revenue model
includes paid listings from Overture in the search results).
(thanks, Marc)
Orkut
02/10/2004 02:53 AM
Well, this thing seems to be taking off. Nat threw in the first
invite, so I signed up, and another half-dozen or so folks have fired
off invites. This is another one of those networking site things, and
I've decided that while I'll go accept invites from anyone I know (I
really need to get a picture up--I'd throw the rainbow parrot pic I
use for iChat, but the TOS seem to indicate that'd be ill-advised) I
don't think I'm going to go to much trouble to actively go search
people out. These things are always interesting to look at,...
Google Social Network: Orkut
Google Social Network: Orkut
01/23/2004 04:12 PM
KM-2004-01: Cross-Site Scripting in
Blosxom writeback
KM-2004-01: Cross-Site Scripting in
Blosxom writeback
06/08/2004 03:27 PM
Kyle Maxwell (Jun 07 2004)
H-Realms Hosting, the Web Hosting
Services Entity of Umbrella and
Portfolio Company InnoCentric
Technologies, Announced 50% Discounts
for University Students
H-Realms Hosting, the Web Hosting
Services Entity of Umbrella and
Portfolio Company InnoCentric
Technologies, Announced 50% Discounts
for University Students
03/30/2005 04:01 AM
H-Realms Hosting, the web hosting services entity of umbrella and
portfolio company InnoCentric Technologies, announced 50% discounts
for university students [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]
Seeking Affordable Computer Technology
for Students? A New Solution Brings
College and Graduate Students the Best
Computers at Half the Cost
Seeking Affordable Computer Technology
for Students? A New Solution Brings
College and Graduate Students the Best
Computers at Half the Cost
09/07/2004 12:15 PM
University PCs, Inc. specializes in offering extremely affordable,
professionally-serviced quality refurbished laptops, desktops, and all
computer products to college and university students throughout the
United States. University PCs is presenting an alternative to the
existing model provided by Dell and other major computer manufacturers
that promote only their most expensive products to students by
bringing affordable computer technology to students on college and
university campuses across the country. [PRWEB Sep 7, 2004]
[hackgen-2004-#001] - Non-critacal
Cross-Site Scripting bug in CuteNews
[hackgen-2004-#001] - Non-critacal
Cross-Site Scripting bug in CuteNews
09/02/2004 04:05 PM
Exoduks (Sep 02 2004)
[waraxe-2004-SA#016 - Cross-Site
Scripting aka XSS in phpnuke 6.x-7.2
part 3]
[waraxe-2004-SA#016 - Cross-Site
Scripting aka XSS in phpnuke 6.x-7.2
part 3]
04/13/2004 12:43 AM
Janek Vind (Apr 12 2004)
MDKSA-2004:013 - Updated mailman
packages close various cross-site
scripting vulnerabilities.
MDKSA-2004:013 - Updated mailman
packages close various cross-site
scripting vulnerabilities.
02/13/2004 07:47 PM
Mandrake Linux Security Team (Feb 13 2004)
Students unleash campus social networking software
