"social networking" entries
Where Does Facebook Grow From Here
Facebook publishes demographic data through its advertising platform. Potential advertisers can obtain estimates for the number of Facebook users by age group, gender, education, country, and even relationship status! While the estimates most likely rely on user supplied data, they provide the best publicly available numbers on the Facebook user base. Facebook currently has about 75M users spread across more…
Google Friend Connect and limits to sharing
We’re all tired of acquaintances tugging on us to sign up for new
social networks. But we wouldn’t want to have just one big social
network, either. Google’s
Friend Connect,
which was announced on Monday and covered by
Radar
as well as other sites, represents a small step toward a middle
ground.
Complete information sharing would mean mingling your data and social
networking functions fully with any site that supports a Friend
Connect widget. Instead, Friend Connect negotiates the
traditional tension between sociability and privacy.
Social Graph Foo Camp–the Videos
On a stormy weekend back in February, O'Reilly hosted Social Graph Foo Camp (David Recordon and Scott Kveton were the instigators; we were happy to say "Yes" when they asked to hold the party at our Sebastopol campus). Google announced their Social Graph API on Friday morning, adding fuel to the fire as the intense discussions got underway. We managed…
Building Better Silos
It's been good to watch the use of OpenID spread. It's great to see that ma.gnolia.com has dropped "traditional login" in favor of OpenID. And I was encouraged to read about Yahoo's support of OpenID. Granted, it took me a while to get around to trying it. But when I got around to trying it, Yahoo!ID was a disappointment. The…
Worldwide Social Network Market Share
Via Azeem Azaar's twitter feed, a great visualization of worldwide social network market share, from Le Monde:…
Open Source "Social App Server" Might Crack Garden Walls?
New social application server space may crack social network garden walls.
To be free, information has to be smart (comments on Chris Anderson's "Free!")
WIRED Magazine’s editor in chief Chris Anderson, following up on the
popularity of his
Long Tail
meme, theorizes in the
March 2008 issue of WIRED about the modern
tendency to put information online at no cost.
I think this is highly volatile and that the phenomenon will be driven
in very different ways from his six models. “Free as in freedom” may
ultimately triumph. Furthermore, professional quality doesn’t come for
free, so projects and industries have to find ways to fund it.