Facebook isn’t a social graph & Metcalfe’s law is broken
This post started innocently enough – wondering whether there is really any difference between a social network and a social graph (apparently it’s a matter under debate). The distinction isn’t made...
View ArticleGoogle Gets an Upgrade
ReadWriteWeb has a post on Google‘s announcement today that they’re rolling out their Social Graph API. The API is based on open source so it should be interesting to see where this development goes....
View ArticlePassively Multiplayer Online Games (PMOG) – Taking the Web to another Layer
In what Tim O’Reilly refers to as a kind of augmented reality, the first ever Passively Multiplayer Online Game has recently been launched in closed beta. Created by startup company Gamelayers and...
View ArticleFacebook’s path to ‘greatness’
As a co-worker and I at New Paradigm were discussing not too long ago, Facebook was missing a key component that was impeding it from rising above and becoming truly ‘great’. Imagine what the world...
View ArticleRich people have fewer friends
I was doing some background research for an upcoming project on social networks and came across an interesting paragraph from a paper by renowned sociologist Mark Granovetter (“The Strength of Weak...
View ArticleVisualizations worth looking at
Interesting or unusual examples of visualizations: (please add your own favorites in the comments below) Trendalyzer - this software was created by gapminder.org. Google acquired the Trendalyzer...
View ArticleAn interesting social network combo: Ning’s Andreessen joins Facebook’s Board...
Facebook, as almost everyone knows, is a social networking site that has quickly emerged to be the market leader with the tag line “Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around...
View ArticleHow Web 2.0, Facebook, and the Net Generation will change corporate security
In the last 20 some odd years corporate security has made some headway. Companies are now at the point where they are reasonably efficient at keeping ‘hackers’ out and letting employees in. The problem...
View ArticleSocial network analysis needn’t be complicated
In an age of highly-complex and often highly-expensive social network mapping and analysis tools, it’s good to know that some people still appreciate the value of getting back to basics. Net-Map, a...
View ArticleTwitter as the basis of an open login scheme
Everyone hates juggling usernames and passwords. So all the great activity around OpenID, Facebook Connect, and more recently OpenID and facebook – all which suggest that mainstream use of open web...
View ArticleThe digital identity divide
If you haven’t conducted this experiment yet, visit the MIT Personas project and type your name into the search field. What comes out is a visual representation of your digital self. As noted on the...
View ArticleWill Facebook be your CRM provider?
According to the Facebook blog (as of April 2010), the average Facebook user “Likes” nine pieces of content very month. With over half a billion users worldwide, that translates to more than 4.5...
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