ENTRIES TAGGED "social networking"

If followers can sponsor updates on Facebook, social advertising has a new horizon

The frequency of sponsored posts looks set to grow.

by Alex Howard | @digiphile | +Alex Howard | March 7, 2013
This week, I found that one of my Facebook updates received significantly more attention that others I’ve posted. On the one hand, it was a share of an important New York Times story focusing on the first time a baby was cured of HIV. But I discovered something that went beyond the story itself: someone who was not…
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Social networks are not communities, and other discussions from the Community Leadership Summit

A report from last weekend's unconference

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | July 16, 2012
The Community Leadership Summit this past weekend roused thoughts in me about the predictions and analyses I’ve heard over the past few years about social networking and to contrast them with what we were saying about community. I realized that I appreciate social networks but feel much more passionate about communities, and spontaneously called for a session to…
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MySQL in 2012: Report from Percona Live

Checking in on the state of MySQL.

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | April 14, 2012

Contrasting deployments at craigslit and Pinterest, trends, commercial offerings, and more

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What the data can tell us about dating and other social congregation

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | February 14, 2012

As people go online, they leave a trail of data that could never be captured before.

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HealthTap's growth validates hypotheses about doctors and patients

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | December 10, 2011

HealthTap has revealed two interesting and perhaps unexpected traits about doctors: they will take the time to post information online for free, and they are willing to rate each other.

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Demoting Halder: A wild look at social tracking and sentiment analysis

You no longer have control over where a first impression occurs.

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | November 1, 2011

My short story, "Demoting Halder," was supposed to lay out an alternative reality where social tracking and sentiment analysis had taken over society. As the story evolved, I wondered if the reality in the story is something we're living right now.

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HealthTap explores how big a community you need to crowdsource health information

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | April 21, 2011

How a company addresses the challenges of trust, motivation, outreach, and accuracy while creating doctor/patient connections.

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Open Media Boston forum examines revolution and Internet use in Middle East

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | April 1, 2011

I came away convinced that Internet sites — Facebook in
particular — were crucial to the spread of the revolutions.

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Media old and new are mobilized for effective causes

Sasha Costanza-Chock on why old and new media will continue to co-exist.

by Andy Oram | @praxagora | +Andy Oram | March 1, 2011

Sasha Costanza-Chock explains why both conventional media and social networks are critical resources, and why social causes have just as much trouble as corporations using the latter effectively.

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Active Facebook users by region: November, 2010

by Ben Lorica | @bigdata | November 16, 2010

With Facebook unveiling an integrated messaging system for its more than 500 million users, I decided to update a few charts that breakdown its users by region.

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