Posts in: Social media
- Yahoo! Mash: an interesting exercise in trust and control
- Yahoo’s new social network service Mash is best described as Facebook-meets-43People with a hell of a lot more personalization options. Like Facebook, MySpace, or BlackPlanet, you can create a profile with basic information about yourself and ‘friend’ other users. You can also add modules — what other sites call widgets or gadgets — to [...] [19 Sep 2007]
- Recommended: “SNS visibility norms (a response to Scoble)”
- danah has a really good post up about social networking site visibility and raises some interesting questions about how to design technology to enhance or destroy privacy. Also see the Scoble post that inspired danah’s response. Related: Recommended: Social Networks Aren’t Products “Facebook Follies” and what might an open social network format look like? [9 Sep 2007]
- Recommended: Social Networks Aren’t Products
- From Vitamin: It’s the cold hard truth, and a reminder of how difficult it is to launch such a site: Social Networks Aren’t Products. Nobody gives a damn how good the cupcakes are; if scarcely anybody shows up, your party is a failure. Equally, nobody goes to MySpace or Match for the cupcakes — or, to [...] [4 Sep 2007]
- “Facebook Follies” and what might an open social network format look like?
- UPDATE 3: danah boyd wonder why Facebook is all the rage among tech nerds UPDATE 2: Some heavy hitters in the social networking space have drafted a A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web, and founded a site devoted to the Open Social Web. UPDATE: From a comment by Baratunde on his blog: Why [...] [29 Aug 2007]
- Review: The online mind map smackdown
- Mind mapping may just be the next wave of online applications. Advanced JavaScript libraries and Flash are enabling web-based mind map applications that are almost as robust as their off-line counterparts (such as Freemind). [2 Jul 2007]
- This is why, this is why, this is why I Tweet.
- Title jacked from Baratunde. Questions asked by danah. First, the practical question. Can i quote you? [X] Yes, and you must use my real name. [ ] Yes, but please use a pseudonym and don’t use any identifying information. [ ] No, please just use this for your own weird thoughts. Why do you use Twitter? What do you [...] [3 May 2007]
