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Danah Boyd: How Technology Makes A Mess Of Privacy and Publicity
They collapsed articulated networks (email) and assumed it was a personal network. In response, some Twitter users made very racist comments — clearly even these open communication platforms are still prone to hate. Today at SXSWi, keynote speaker Danah Boyd took the stage to talk about privacy and publicity, and how they intertwine online. Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and has studied this space extensively for years.
TechCrunch - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
15 – 16 March 2010: London, England 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum — London The 2nd Annual Social Networking World Forum takes place at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. Social Networking World Forum Mobile Social Networking Forum It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus.
ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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#140tc: A Conversation with Ben Parr
Twitter, and social media networks in general, have gone mainstream to such a wide audience, that many large corporations are finally learning to use it more effectively. Parr believes that Twitter will be implementing some kind of ad platform based on search, and soon. This is the first of several posts covering TweetHouse’s 140 Twitter Conference that took place on March 8, 2010. The 140tc focused on everything from Twitter basics to advanced tools and uses for business and beyond. Steve Broback , one of the minds behind the 140tc, kicked off the conference interviewing
Lockergnome Blog Network - Friday, March 12, 2010
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  • Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
    A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a way that users can't communicate or share content or friends across networks; put simply this is what keeps a Facebook user from being able to send a message to a MySpace user. This is the same model that destroyed AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy's ISP businesses when normal people chose the Internet itself versus their thoughtfully curated walled gardens.
    OReilly Radar - Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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  • Active Facebook Users By Country
    According to Alexa, Facebook is now the 2nd most-popular site in Indonesia , displacing Friendster as the country's leading social network. Tags: facebook hardnumbers platforms research socialnetworkin Since I last posted numbers on Facebook's user base six week ago, the company has added close to 20 million active users. I've I've had a few requests for detailed numbers by country so I quickly assembled an update for each of the regions shown above.
    OReilly Radar - Sunday, April 19, 2009
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  • Facebook as a Learning Platform
    He points us to a Fortune Magazine article that describes a Stanford class being offered by BJ Fogg that studies Facebook as a platform: "Facebook is the most convenient and respectable way to feel connected to friends, get updated on existing friends, find new people, build relationships and express identities." Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about
    eLearning Technology - Monday, October 15, 2007
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  • Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform
    But is Twitter truly a conversational platform? Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the knowledge co-creation seen in wikis than the dynamics seen with conversational tools like instant messaging and interactions within online social networks. Wikis are causally thought of as platforms for "collaborative" document creation. Perhaps the most common reason given for joining the microsharing site Twitter is " participating in the conversation " or some version of that. I myself am guilty of using this explanation .
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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  • Facebook is Growing Fast in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
    Note that the number of users in Asia remains small compared to other social networks in the region. With such a large user base, the company continues to attract application developers to its platform. The graph below compares the relative size of the Facebook, Myspace, and iPhone application platforms: I With Facebook recently passing 175 million users, I decided to update my analysis of its user base. The weekly growth in number of users has remained steady, with the last 5 weeks being exceptionally strong: Facebook added over 25 million users since early February.
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, March 5, 2009
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  • The iPhone as a Gaming Platform: Share of Top Apps By Category
    Other categories that had disproportionate share of apps in the Top 100 rankings include Social Networking, Photography, (and to a lesser extent) Sports, and Utilities. In Tags: games gaming iphone mobile platfor As a follow-up to my recent post on the Top Grossing Apps list on iTunes, I examined three lists highlighted in the app store: the Top Paid, Top Free, and Top Grossing Apps. Believing that many users scan these lists, developers covet a spot on any of these Top 100 charts. In
    OReilly Radar - Thursday, October 8, 2009
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  • Is Facebook a Brand that You Can Trust?
    EFF adds that, "The privacy 'transition tool' that guides users through the configuration will 'recommend' — preselect by default — the setting to share the content they post to Facebook, such as status messages and wall posts, with everyone on the Internet, even though the default privacy level that those users had accepted previously was limited to 'Your Networks and Friends' on Facebook." While previously, these photos were only viewable to the Friends and Networks that you explicitly connected with, now, without consulting you, Facebook has made your son or daughter's
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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  • The Incubation Period for iPhone Apps is Declining
    For all but two small categories (Weather, Social Networking), the incubation period has declined. (Medical Tags: iphone mobile platfor A conversation with Raven Zachary at Macworld prompted me to dig into the state of new apps on the (U.S.) iTunes App store. First, I looked into the number of new apps that become available on a weekly
    OReilly Radar - Friday, January 9, 2009
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  • The Google Android Rollout: Windows or Waterloo?
    Because a successful platform play demands clear delineation points between the areas where the platform creator is looking to the ecosystem to fill the gap (and, thus the platform provider won't compete with them); where they consider something proprietary to themselves, and thus won't allow a third-party to augment/swap out; and where it's more akin to 'co-opetition' (the platform creator will cooperate, but reserves the right to compete as well). History suggests that when ecosystem partners conclude that the platform creator is competing with its own constituency
    OReilly Radar - Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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  • Facebook's Own Estimates Show Declining Student Numbers; Now More Grandparents Than High School Users
    According to this data, from Facebook's own ad platform, there are actually fewer high school and college users on Facebook today than there were six months ago. That's a dramatic change too for a site that began as a network for college students. Given that the number of male users plus the number of female users adds up to a lower number than the number of users shown when no gender is selected How fickle are kids these days? Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook , college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, July 6, 2009
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