PALO ALTO, Calif. â Facebook, the Internetâs largest social network, wants to let you take your friends with you as you travel the Web. But having been burned by privacy concerns in the last year, it plans to keep close tabs on those outings.
Sure, programs like Twitter are a boon for campus communities and for
social circles of all kinds. But what if you want different groups of
acquaintances to know different things about how youâre spending the
day? What if you donât want certain people â your boss, for example â to
know what youâre really doing? Then you need Swarm...
While the big public news for Ning this week is their participation in and support of Google's Open Social platform (will have to save talking about that for another day), yesterday they made a quiet decision which will greatly benefit the educational community: to provide ad-free student networks to K-12 educators.
Change.org is a social network for social activism, incorporating nonprofits, politicians, and people across the globe.
# Story Highlights
# Freshmen will step onto campuses with a jump-start on their new social lives
# Facebook allows them to form friendships before they attend orientation
# Students can also find groups of friends based on interests
The following 35 perspectives on online social networking sites can be
sorted into different overall categories (or different actors or
discourses). As a researcher I certainly do not agree with all of the
mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or
prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures on social networking to
adults. After my list, I propose six overarching categories.Â
Marc Hedlund, founder of the intriguing Wesabe, recently made this interesting observation: One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. [...]
Geek reporter Annalee Newitz has a nice pair of articles on Wired News this morning about the way that scammers manipulate community voting sites like eBay, Yahoo Stores and Digg. In the first one, Herding the Mob, Newitz describes a variety of techniques used to manipulate rankings [...]
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PALO ALTO, Calif. â Facebook, the Internetâs largest social network, wants to let you take your friends with you as you travel the Web. But having been burned by privacy concerns in the last year, it plans to keep close tabs on those outings.
Sure, programs like Twitter are a boon for campus communities and for social circles of all kinds. But what if you want different groups of acquaintances to know different things about how youâre spending the day? What if you donât want certain people â your boss, for example â to know what youâre really doing? Then you need Swarm...
FOC08 (1): Groups to Communities.
While the big public news for Ning this week is their participation in and support of Google's Open Social platform (will have to save talking about that for another day), yesterday they made a quiet decision which will greatly benefit the educational community: to provide ad-free student networks to K-12 educators.
Change.org is a social network for social activism, incorporating nonprofits, politicians, and people across the globe.
# Story Highlights # Freshmen will step onto campuses with a jump-start on their new social lives # Facebook allows them to form friendships before they attend orientation # Students can also find groups of friends based on interests
The following 35 perspectives on online social networking sites can be sorted into different overall categories (or different actors or discourses). As a researcher I certainly do not agree with all of the mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures on social networking to adults. After my list, I propose six overarching categories.Â
Marc Hedlund, founder of the intriguing Wesabe, recently made this interesting observation: One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. [...]
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