"Increase organic growth by exposing audiences to the brand through breakthrough viral communications." Or if that doesn't work, reload the page and try again...
"Increase organic growth by exposing audiences to the brand through breakthrough viral communications." Or if that doesn't work, reload the page and try again...
"What's the main difference between successful Google applications (search, maps, news, email) and a successful social applications? With Google applications we return to the app to do something specific and then go on to something else, whereas great social applications are designed to lure us back and make us never want to leave."
"What's the main difference between successful Google applications (search, maps, news, email) and a successful social applications? With Google applications we return to the app to do something specific and then go on to something else, whereas great social applications are designed to lure us back and make us never want to leave."
First details about Diaspora, the distributed-social-network project, including a video showing real-time message propagation.
Not a whole lot of detail, but it's nice to hear they've got real stuff up and running.
First details about Diaspora, the distributed-social-network project, including a video showing real-time message propagation.
Not a whole lot of detail, but it's nice to hear they've got real stuff up and running.
Ryan Singel: "Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed."
Another great essay by danah boyd; this one about the difficulties of interpreting large data sets about social networks, especially in light of people's feelings about privacy.
Bruce Schneier: "To the older generation, privacy is about secrecy. And, as the Supreme Court said, once something is no longer secret, it's no longer private. But that's not how privacy works, and it's not how the younger generation thinks about it. Privacy is about control. When your health records are sold to a pharmaceutical company without your permission; when a social networking site changes your privacy settings to make what used to be visible only to your friends visible to everyone; when the NSA eavesdrops on everyone's e-mail conversations--your loss of control over that information is the issue. We may not mind sharing our personal lives and thoughts, but we want to control how, where and with whom. A privacy failure is a control failure."
"Chatroulette is the biggest new thing to hit the Internet, and with over 20,000 active users at any given time, it’s a surefire bet for the future of social media marketing. Here’s some important tips for how to get the most out of Chatroulette for your product, service, or brand..."
"The “hypersigil” or “supersigil” develops the sigil concept beyond the static image and incorporates elements such as characterization, drama, and plot. The hypersigil is a sigil extended through the fourth dimension. ... The hypersigil is a dynamic miniature model of the magician’s universe, a hologram, microcosm, or “voodoo doll” which can be manipulated in real time to produce changes in the macrocosmic environment of “real” life."
"Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interpersonal wack-ness. It is my opinion that many of these never-ending crises are sparked off by an assortment of pernicious social fallacies -- ideas about human interaction which spur their holders to do terrible and stupid things to themselves and to each other."
"People have been trying to use URLs as identifiers for people (as OpenID does), as it has great readability/discoverability properties, but this effort has largely failed because of UI/UX design failings, user confusion about URLs, etc.
It's now increasingly accepted that email addresses would be good identifiers for people (since that's what people are used to already, and have on business cards and in their addressbooks, etc.), but we're back to the original problem that email addresses are write-only. If I give you my email address today, you can't do anything with it except email me. I can't attach public metadata to my email address to give you more information.
WebFinger is about making email addresses more valuable, by letting people attach public metadata to them."
Interesting essay/post by Trent of NiN.
"I will be tuning out of the social networking sites because at the end of the day it's now doing more harm than good in the bigger picture and the experiment seems to have yielded a result. Idiots rule. ... Anyway, we're in a world where the mainstream social networks want any and all people to boost user numbers for the big selloff and are not concerned with the quality of experience."
“Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers — regardless of platform or language.” Answering questions well boosts your reputation, and a good rep lets you vote other answers up or down, or add comments.
“Pinax is an open-source collection of integrated, but reusable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
“While our initial development is focused around a demo social networking site, we are also working on number of editions tailored to intranets, learning management, software project management and more.”
“This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Facebook offers a socially compelling platform that also facilitates peer-to-peer privacy violations: users harming each others’ privacy interests. These two facts are inextricably linked; people use Facebook with the goal of sharing some information about themselves. Policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, but they can help people use it safely.”
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