December 2007
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Seasoning required
Hey, season greetings to all those who joined the Social Space Station on its travels though the online social universe. I hope that something of interest popped along the way. 2007 has been the inaugural mission of the Station, and after a sluggish start and a lack of clear focus, I think that it might be heading somewhere good. Feel free to comment on this assertion. However, with this mind, I...
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Utterly cool
This is my first utterance, well my first using a new service called ‘Utterz’ [c/o Mashable). Utterz lets you post easily to your blog (or tumble to your log) from a mobile phone or their Webpage. The Website is slick and extremely easy to use. A new profile and connection to your tumblelog or blog can be set up in seconds (depending on the speed of your connection that is). A list of...
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Persona non grattan
One of the bigger issues I’ve encountered negotiating the social networked universe is the dreaded profile image. These images are supposed to represent or encapsulate you in such a way that others might recognise or at least be drawn to you, when first seen. Should it show a simple headshot? You plus a couple of close friends? (seems to be a common approach for female networkers)? Your pet?...
Research on Social Network Sites →
This is a bibliography of social network sites related research literature maintained by Danah Boyd. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: research, academia, social networking, zephoria
On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data - New York... →
Researchers are using Facebook habits to study how tastes and values affect the formation of social relationships. [c/o AoIR] Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, facebook, academia, new york times
Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining... →
The Richter Scales video “Here comes another bubble” (I the other week) has reportedly been pulled down to supposed copyright infringement. See this blog by Tech Crunch main guy Michael Arrington who is actually in the video.
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About Facebook! Forward March! - Washington Post →
“First to Facebook were the teens. Then came the money, the market researchers and the media. And now come … the academics.” [c/o AoIR] Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: facebook, academia, social networking, news
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Neogeography: Say what now?
This is a guest post from a friend of mine - Bruce McLennan about neography (or social mapping). He is a geographic data specialist currently working for AgResearch where he thinks about maps, locations, topography, space and other stuff I don’t understand. He also takes photographs of the New Zealand landscape that are quite beautiful (see below) and is a heavy user of social networking...
Twitter: The Science, Not Art, of Distraction -... →
A relatively indepth discussion about Twitter and the problems associated with a perceived high noise to signal ratio. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, social networking, news, mas
Minismising Risks Of Online Social Networking -... →
“New Zealanders need to act on new research which shows most feel uncomfortable posting personal information online” [c/o AH] Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, social networking, scoop, new zealand
TwitterMail.com →
Post tweets and track others using this free email service. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: twitter, email, free, social networking
Facebook, ID fraud and the dark side of the web -... →
The Le Web 3 conference kicked off in Paris with a discussion about the dark side of Web 2.0. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, web 2.0, facebook, computerworld
World Internet Project →
This is an international collaborative research initiative that examines the social, political and economic impacts of the Internet and related technologies on the world. Interestingly this project began by looking at similar potential impacts of television. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: research, internet, global
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Facebook is king! - well at least in the UK
Here is an interesting slide show (c/o AoIR) on Facebook usage related statistics in the UK by Human Capital. It’s called “The Facebook Face-off - An Empirical Analysis” which uncovers some interesting results derived from Nielsen/Netrating data. The approach is to test a range of hypotheses (e.g., Facebook is used predominantly by young undergraduates) against this data and...
Social networking tools give introverts... →
A digest of social networking methods for introverts and another reason for why online social activity is better than real life. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, social networking, boston globe
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Dubber me crazy
I recently had an international-Internet-real-life-in-my-hood-type-hookup with a chap called Andrew Dubber (an ex-pat New Zealander living and working in Birmingham, UK and a cool guy). He is also a much faster and better blogger than I (although I would argue that I’m a tumblelogger) and has posted about our meeting already on his blog. I have been following his blog the Wireless...
OpenSocial Still “Not Open for Business” -... →
“It’s only been about a month since Google launched OpenSocial, its development platform for social networking applications. But already developers are frustrated with how half-baked the whole thing is.”
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GroupMe! →
GroupMe! - Semantic Web meets Web 2.0 - Ontologies meet Folksonomies.
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Tags: semantic web, folksonomies, tags, bookmarks
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Throng | NZ's TV watching community | TV Blogs →
An online community dedicated to the television watching public of New Zealand. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: tv, blog, social networking, new zealand
'Flight of the Conchords' Star Doesn't Like... →
Brit (Brett) from ‘Flight of the Conchords’ doesn’t Like MySpace despite the popularity of their site. It’s Jermaine that likes to hang with their peeps online. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, myspace, new zealand
IMDb Launching a Database and Social Network for... →
Amazon-owned Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has filed a trademark application for the term “SoundUnwound.” It sounds like the first place to go to for film information is moving into the music sphere. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: news, music, mashable, imdb, amazon
Coke Is Holding Off on Sipping Facebooks Beacon -... →
A little more on Facebook’s beacon care of Techcrunch. Saved By: Online social space | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: facebook, news, new york times, social networking, techcrunch
November 2007
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