June 19, 2009
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What is DSNP?
DSNP is a protocol for distributed social networking. The goal is to allow you to host your identity in a place of your choosing, maintain ultimate control over your personal information, and interact with your friends and family in a secure manner.
(Link: DSNP: Distributed Social Networking Protocol)
June 16, 2009
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Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
(Link: Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history | Video on TED.com)
May 4, 2009
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The 26-year-old Stanford grad is one of some 150 people the young company employs to keep the site clean—out of a total head count of 850. Facebook describes these staffers as an internal police force, charged with regulating users’ decorum, hunting spammers and working with actual law-enforcement agencies to help solve crimes. Part hall monitors, part vice cops, these employees are key weapons in Facebook’s efforts to maintain its image as a place that’s safe for corporate advertisers—more so than predecessor social networks like Friendster and MySpace.
(Link: Facebook’s ‘Porn Cops’ Are Key to Its Growth | Newsweek)
April 8, 2009
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Selective Twitter Status lets you update your Facebook status from Twitter -
BUT you can choose which tweets you want – just end a tweet with #fb when you want to post it as your Facebook status – simple!
(Link: Selective Twitter Status on Facebook using #fb)
April 8, 2009
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Now, there are also dating services to help you find that special someone, even when you already have someone special.
AshleyMadison.com, which caters to men and women who are already in relationships and are looking for something more, is the largest dating service of its kind. The Toronto-based company has made millions of dollars by helping people cheat on their spouses. Their tag line gets right to the point: “Life is short, have an affair.”
(Link: AshleyMadison.com makes Millions by Connecting Cheaters)
April 6, 2009
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UpperDeckU is an online community where members can get together and talk about sports, play sports related mini games, collect digital trading cards, and more; all in a safe and moderated environment. From this page you can log-in to your parent account and view some frequently asked questions.
(Link: Upper Deck U)
March 26, 2009
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Skimmer – We Are Fallon
Skimmer℠ is an Adobe AIR desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon your day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich experience that is particularly suited to multimedia content.
March 26, 2009
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Gary Hamel on Managing Generation Y – the Facebook Generation – WSJ
With that in mind, I compiled a list of 12 work-relevant characteristics of online life. These are the post-bureaucratic realities that tomorrow’s employees will use as yardsticks in determining whether your company is “with it” or “past it.” In assembling this short list, I haven’t tried to catalog every salient feature of the Web’s social milieu, only those that are most at odds with the legacy practices found in large companies.
March 21, 2009
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Building a Social Network Site in Rails | Ruby on Rails
I’m not going to cover how to actually code an entire social network site in rails as all social network sites vary in their functionality (and it’ll take too long). I will cover plugins and other things you might find useful though.
