November 2007
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Creating Passionate Users →
This blog started by Kathy Sierra (a former games developer) takes a look at “brains, minds and what science can tell us about the practice of making users passionate about their lives and tools.”
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Social Site Rankings (October, 2007) - Techcrunch →
ComScore tracked the traffic to the more popular social sites (as opposed to social networking sites because some aren’t) for Techcrunch and here’s the results.
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How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -... →
Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you’re looking to avoid (c/o getshust). Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, facebook, social networking, tumblr
Design Ethics - Encouraging responsible behaviour... →
Another nice posting from Leisa at Disambiguity. This time about users carelessly revealing authentication details in response to requests by social networking sites such as Facebook.
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Tweet as bro!
Twitter is a fascinating social networking phenomenon for people who like to piffle, witter, prattle, gibber, prate or maunder. Not only is it for people who like to talk about the minutiae of their everyday lives and incessantly, it’s for those who like to watch people talk about their everyday lives. Twitter (jump to the next paragraph if you know about Twitter already) is a microblogging...
Cyberbullying Suicide Stokes the Internet Fury... →
Get in-depth politics and legal news coverage including online privacy, Internet security, government regulations, censorship and free speech from Wired.com. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, wired, social networking, internet
Latest target of MoveOn: Facebook - Los Angeles... →
Liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org launched a campaign Tuesday on Facebook against Facebook, raising privacy concerns for users of the fast-growing social network. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, facebook, social networking, La times
Educators weigh merits of social network sites -... →
Educators and advocates for children are debating whether social-networking websites should join lunchboxes, clothing logos and soda machines as a route for advertisers to reach kids in school. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, facebook, social networking, LA Times
Flock - The Social Web Browser →
“Flock is a free web browser that makes it easy to connect with your friends and express yourself online. Upload photos, blog anything, subscribe to RSS, drag’n’drop photos and videos, and get notified when the people you care about update their spaces on the web.” Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: browser, technology, free, social networking
Stumble Upon the Stumbleupon Social Network -... →
http://live.pirillo.com - Social Networking is all the rage these days. If I had to recommend only one Social Network site… it would be StumbleUpon. I would agree as its the top referrer for the Social Space Station. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: social networking, youtube, stumbleupon, traffic
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Status Update: Facebook Is Letting Users Drop the... →
Facebook has caved into popular demand and will make the is in status updates optional, effective tonight, according to allfacebook.com. The much despised is has been a mandatory component of user statuses (c/o Techcrunch) Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, facebook, wired, status
Facebook, open book - Listener →
A piece by Russell Brown at the Listener (of Public Address fame) which discusses the recent moves by Facebook to open up its contents to business. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, facebook, listener, russell brown
Plaxo Sees Exponential Growth as First to Use... →
The company that got first dibs at implementing OpenSocial gadgets has seen its service grow more than tenfold. See the rest of this story for more. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, google, mashable, opensocial
Don't flame me, bro' - New Scientist Technology... →
A post by the moderator for the new New Scientist blog comments about flaming, trolling and bad language (whatever that is). It discusses the idea that spaces that offer comments provide an informal method of communication so people feel comfortable venting their spleens, abusing others, swearing and what-not. Not a bad idea.
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PollDaddy.com →
Create free online surveys and polls to embed on Websites and blogs. These look pretty good and I think I’ll probably try them out sometime soon. In fact, they might be good for surveying students. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: polls, social networking, blogs, service
Analyst predicts 'virtual marriages' by 2015 -... →
According to this article it is predicted that people will marry exclusively in Virtual worlds such as SecondLife. And why not? Second Life is based around owning property, and surely people can co-habitate and develop their land? And if so, they should probably get 50% each of their virtual investment. These ideas are on the back of other predictions about just how long people might spend on...
Gabcast.com →
Record podcasts with your phone! Gabcast is a social broadcasting platform that offers virtual communities, individuals and organizations an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: podcast, social networking, blog, business
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Overfeeding
The Social Space Station apology module has now been activated. The target -those loyal subscribers to the Station RSS feed. These people are highly-valued readers (hopefully that’s you!) may have noticed a few dispatches recently containing duplicate postings. While these duplicates did not appear on the Website they did in the feed. The reason for this … well, it was entirely my...
Facebook unveils ad platform — and new corporate... →
More than 60 companies have already signed up to use the new Facebook advertising system. This article discusses the new demographic for online consumers in terms of advertising - “Fansumers” (yuck).
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Google Aims to Break Open the Closed World of... →
Early coverage of OpenSocial by Google over at Wired. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: google, social networking, wired, news, open social
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“Quite honestly, I keep thinking of ways I can duck out of Facebook altogether....”
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Inside Facebook →
A blog that tracks the latest Facebook news and apps. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: facebook, news, apps, blog
Seven Steps to Graphing Your Facebook Strategy -... →
This guest post is written by Dave McClure: startup advisor, angel investor, PayPal alumnus, and Master of 500 Hats. It describes seven strategies for improving the visibility of your business, Website, blog through Facebook. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: techcrunch, news, facebook, strategy
Analytics reporting for home
If you care about the comings and goings at your Website then you probably use Google analytics. This is a useful service for keeping track of visitors to your sites and for details such as how they got there, what they did once there, how they found about your site, and many, many more metrics. It really is a remarkable amount of information that is captured by Google, at least the stuff we know...
Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers - New York... →
Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, social networking, facebook, advertising
Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly - New... →
A new alliance will help friends on networking sites roam
freely. More on Google and Open Social (thanks to IRGO) Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: google, news, opensocial, facebook
Techie uses cybersquatting to tempt Google -... →
German techie registers a variety of Google-related domains, offers to trade them for a job at Google’s security department Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, technology, google, domain
The Fakebook Generation - New York Times →
For young people, Facebook is yet another form of escapism; we can turn our lives into stage dramas and relationships into comedy routines.
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The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times →
Quick blogs like Twitter can be a social safety net according to this article. “Artificial intimacy” is introduced as a play on ambient intimacy where apparent concern for others is questioned.
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Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join... →
Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle. MySpace and Six Apart will announce …
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The Bebo kids are alright
In early October I discussed an idea to engage my first-year students on their turf. My suggestion was to use the social networking sites that they inhabit (frequently during class time) such as Facebook and Bebo to discuss the course and most importantly, the final exam.I suggest reading the post Territorial Pissings to see how the students responded to the idea - in person anyway. The exam is...
October 2007
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Tumblr reloaded
Exciting news in tumblelog land! The official Tumblr blog has announced that version 3 of Tumblr is about to be released. This really is a bolt out of the blue (and a welcome one) as the blog had been silent for months despite the continued smooth running of Tumblr in the meantime. I’m unsure what new features will be unpacked on November the 1st (unfortunately I’m in New Zealand and...