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September 6, 2006
The web is inherently social
Karl Martino says “paradox1x: Social software can’t be a fad since the WEB is social software”: The fact is the most successful web services - since the beginnings of the web - were social software applications. The Web’s participatory architecture...(See full entry.)
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August 15, 2006
Social software provides buffer for shy people
I think 12 frogs is onto something here with Why social software is good for introverts....(See full entry.)
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March 6, 2006
Discussing online community on KUOW (in Seattle)
I just got off the phone with Jeannie Yandel, the producer of a show called The Conversation on an NPR station in Seattle, KUOW 94.9 FM. She asked me about how online communities cross over into the real world, what...(See full entry.)
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January 27, 2006
The Internet fosters social contact
I’ve always felt (and I said this all over the book) that it was wrong to think that the Internet inherently isolates people or makes them behave antisocially. A Pew report issued Wednesday, supports the idea the use of the...(See full entry.)
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January 16, 2006
Conference season is starting again
I’m blogging from the SXSW Interactive party in downtown San Francisco. It’s still the depths of winter but I can imagine the spring thaw. It’s time to add an SXSW badge to my blog and make my travel plans for...(See full entry.)
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May 27, 2005
Boilerplate social network invitations: Decidedly Unromantic
I've become a little more understanding about the lame robotic invitations that are suggested by default by most social network services when you invite a new member. I've been told that providing the user with a canned invitation instead of...(See full entry.)
May 11, 2005
Goodgeball
Clay Shirky congratulates his students who developed Dodgeball and have now sold it to Google Gmail, Orkut, and now Dodgeball all touch this issue. Dodgeball in particular is built on a mix of three different kinds of maps: maps of...(See full entry.)
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May 10, 2005
Ask Upcoming.org and ye [might] receive
Andy Baio writes: Upcoming.org gets a wiki not much there yet, but I'd love some help fleshing it out; feel free to add your feature requests...(See full entry.)
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March 28, 2005
Upcoming.org announces major overhaul
Andy Baio IM'd me this morning to alert me to the new version of Upcoming.org (Upcoming.org: News: Huge Changes!). Improvements includes the following: Personal and self-promotional events now permitted / enabled. Tagging! A RESTful developer's API. Upgraded, more legible design....(See full entry.)
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March 2, 2005
Wists visual bookmark friends network
I'm making my plans for SXSW and getting tips from experienced attendees like George aand Austin residents like Sarah about what to do. Sarah reminded me of the 20x2 event (20 speakers, one question, two minutes each). Looking over the...(See full entry.)
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January 30, 2005
Mapping the sexual / romantic network of a high school
The diagram that illustrates research into the romantic entanglements of an entire high school look remarkably to my eyes like molecular chains. I realize that some of that is a matter of choices about how to visualize data, but comparing...(See full entry.)
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January 28, 2005
Viewing your sexual history as a social network
OK, I admit that Who Banged Who is just a slick parody, but is it really all that far-fetched?...(See full entry.)
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December 8, 2004
Scoble explains how trust can be contagious in groups
Quoting from The trust network at dinner with an author that I didn't know (in Scobleizer): How do you learn to trust/like/love someone new in your life?Tonight I was at a dinner of about a dozen people. I was asked...(See full entry.)
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November 29, 2004
Blogger dinner in Berkeley, Thursday, December 2
Not sure if it's appropriate to add semi-public events to Upcoming.org, so I'll just mention this dinner here. I plan to be there, perhaps with some copies of the book in the trunk of my car. Blogger Dinner Thursday, Dec...(See full entry.)
November 19, 2004
Yet another must-read blog: Operating Manual for Social Tools
Looks like Corante's got another blog (Operating Manual for Social Tools) that I should be following here at POM. Where does David Weinberger find the time to contribute to so many weblogs? Also, I'm a little unclear of the overlap...(See full entry.)
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October 28, 2004
See you in SF tonight?
I'll be at the Technorati Party in SF, Thursday Oct 28 party this evening. I never added it to my Upcoming.org event calendar feed since I wasn't sure it was OK to enter it over there. I'm still looking for...(See full entry.)
September 20, 2004
Peer-to-peer sex education
From Ftrain I found this link to a sex wiki that calls itself "the Internet's first wiki on sex." This might make a good test-case for whole authority-of-wiki references debate. Will it spread disinformation or will it incrementally begin to...(See full entry.)
September 7, 2004
Deals vs. dates
Judith Meskill notes an article at Time.com called What Are Friends For (Relationship-Capital Management - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com): Deals vs. dates? Is that the difference between LinkedIn.com and, say, Orkut.com? Not really. But it is the difference...(See full entry.)
August 10, 2004
Multiply (YASNS)
JonL just invited me to join Multiply, which seems to involve social networking, photo sharing, blogging (journaling), a calendar, a place for reviews and recipes,a nd something called Market (I've only started poking around). Here's my barebones page there: telegraph.multiply.com...(See full entry.)
June 18, 2004
Open-source matchmaking
Annalee Newitz interviews Christopher Filkins (also featured in two chapters of POM) about his ideas for an open-source dating network in Wired 12.06: Cracking the Code to Romance....(See full entry.)
June 7, 2004
Maybe e-mail isn't still the King of Apps
Today, Lawrence Lessig declared e-mail bankruptcy, saying he was going to stop trying to get caught up on replying to his backlog. A colleague says, "This is Larry coming to grips with becoming a public figure, and recognizing he can't...(See full entry.)
May 10, 2004
Teens skunkworking into Friendster
Researching why she's getting so many Friendster invites, danah boyd discovered that teenagers are mobbing the system by claiming to be much older, often seniors; it looks as though 69 is the most popular age. "I'm stunned that Friendster was...(See full entry.)
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April 8, 2004
Text-message-community service
Dodgeball.com is not related to kickball. It's a site that allows you to alert your acquaintances to your whereabouts by cell-phone text message. A feature in Time Out New York magazine calls it a "Friendster/Citysearch hybrid". It has other geography-related...(See full entry.)
March 17, 2004
Relationships != finite
More evidence that human interaction cannot be reduced to Boolean algebra (or binary math, or quantum physics, or any other course in the catalog): Clay Shirky writes, Behold RELATIONSHIP, a vocabulary for describing relationships between people. I don't know if...(See full entry.)
I dream of genii with the light brown hair
I saw a remaindered link at Tom Coates' blog and took the test: Thanks for taking Match.com's Ph.D.-formulated Physical Attraction Test, a revolutionary development in the world of relationships. This scientific system will help you narrow your search for those...(See full entry.)
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February 23, 2004
Social networks for sharing media
Mediachest.com: Organize, borrow, loan, and share books, CDs, DVDs, and video games Perhaps chapter 8 should tackle other forms of socializing beyond dating, essentially anything that is personal or friendship-oriented, as opposed to professional and business-oriented? If I haven't linked...(See full entry.)
February 10, 2004
Craigslist offers 2nd chance for missed connections
Oakland Tribune feature: "Missed Connections" is a craigslist board for people who want to follow up on a random encounter: Since it began, Newmark has watched Missed Connections grow from 100 to 4,000 posts a week, across the 34 cities...(See full entry.)
February 9, 2004
After we sign up, what next?
S.F. Chronicle: CLICKING FOR CONNECTIONS: After a big splash, social networking sites (both business networking and dating) try to hold onto users. Social networking, as the industry is called, has enjoyed phenomenal growth during the past year. Millions of Internet...(See full entry.)
January 27, 2004
Seattle Times tech writer skims over the social software field
Not much new (though the "so last year" line is good)—but have we already noted XFN "rel" tags? Social networking sounds like a roundabout term for dating, and in some ways it is. A new Web site, Friendster.com, connects friends...(See full entry.)
January 26, 2004
Orkut.com's rapid bootstrapping
Had a great, nearly three-hour face-to-face interview with Mary Hodder today. We covered a lot of ground and I'll still be digesting what we talked about for years probably. One thing touched on was Orkut. More than once she mentioned...(See full entry.)
January 23, 2004
Does Google want part of Friendster?
CNET news is reporting the launch of a personal project by a Google engineer, orkut.com, a trusted-network service similar to Match.com or Friendster. Article has a variety of insider bits about Google's possible expansion into social networking, including "Google itself...(See full entry.)
January 5, 2004
FriendRank
Like most normal people, I was just having an interesting telephone conversation with a friend of mine (at 2am) about Google, Yahoo, Friendster, on-line marketplaces, approximate searches, and some secret stuff. Along the way I got to thinking about...(See full entry.)
December 31, 2003
Private tribes wanted
Om Malik's Broadband Blog: My Network, My Way! 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...(See full entry.)
Ideas for useful social software
Social Software ideas | A Whole Lotta Features...(See full entry.)