While talking about the Social Media Press release yesterday I mused about the need for real-time communications to be included in the system.
Actually the call is for a much broader inclusion of person to person or person to group communication in Internet services – direct discussion between people using a site and between users and [...]
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One of the tenents of social media is that it fills an unmet need – the desire of people to connect in communities and explore common interests.
It’s no surprise then that the BarCamp community – an international movement of tech enthusiasts who connect locally discuss to technology and trends – would want to use collaborative [...]
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Yesterday FaceBook announced Beacon – an ad widget for eCommerce sites that asks the purchaser if they want the purchase in their FaceBook feed. One click and you’ve promoted the site and product while linking it to the reputation of the purchaser.
What’s slick about this is it removes the last shred of doubt that content is [...]
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Posted in Facebook, Social Software on September 18, 2007 | Comments Off
Yesterday Maggie Fox wrote about FaceBook’s walled garden approach to user data.
Today I fianlly catch up on Alice Taylors wonderful blog – Wonderland and find her linking to an animation on FaceBook’s privacy policy – What Happens in the Facebook …
Both Maggie and “What Happens …” raise interesting questions about who owns our information and what can they do [...]
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Posted in Facebook, Social Software, Video Games, danah boyd on September 12, 2007 | Comments Off
I’ve long thought that successful social software requires as much attention to designing for user motivation as it does to implementing those insights in algorithms and clean user interface.
I’m not the only one of course who has thought that. It’s an active area of study and commentary. From Jacques Bughin of McKinsey who studied contribution [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Facebook, Social Software on September 7, 2007 | Comments Off
Thanks to Maggie Fox for pointing to John McCrea’s (of Plaxo) Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
“Ownership of their own personal information, including:
- their own profile data
- the list of people they are connected to
- the activity stream of content they create;
- whether and how such information is shared with others
- freedom [...]
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Alec Saunders points to a great post by Jeneane Sessum on Social Application Optimization – likening it to Cluetrain Manifesto with its suggestion that marketing is conversation.
Jeneane suggests there’s a need for a strategy and programs to have those conversations in social spaces creating an integrated presence across social sites or as she calls it [...]
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Following up on yesterdays post I came across an interesting post on Seamus McCauley’s Virtual Economics blog that argues that vertical (activity/theme focused) social networks won’t win because:
“a social network that lets people express multiple identities in multiple ways is almost always going to dominate a network that tries to confine identity within a singular [...]
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Ed Sim, asks whether LinkedIn and FaceBook are on a collision course?
The underlying question, is each currently targeting different social networks? Or are there networks starting to overlap? If it’s the latter, how long will people maintain, and consistently interact with two sites offering similar services. Ed asks:
“wouldn’t it be great if there was a [...]
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Posted in CBS, Facebook, Marketing, Radio, Social Software on May 30, 2007 | Comments Off
Mark Ramsey reports that CBS has bought Last.fm.
Mark speculates that in two years well see Last.Fm integrated into all of CBS’s radio web sites delivering the personalized online radio that Last.fm is famous for.
While that my be true (except for the two year part) because if they plan to take that long they’d develop a [...]
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