Facebook, college kids, data mining and the CIA
Facebook is sweeping the world with a sort of frenzy usually reserved for cute robotic toys offloaded onto the Japanese teen market. We all have fun on it, those with addictive personalities flirt with...
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The world map of social networks
Interesting map showing prevalence of social networks around the world. However, the comments are flaming: the data seems inaccurate in some of the other countries that are not the US (duh). Take this...
View ArticleClass division in MySpace and Facebook
It is held that MySpace and Facebook are inhabited by different classes, in America at least. America does not have a historic class legacy, so this paper is quite interesting as it allows one to point...
View ArticleGrowth of snetworks | Guardian
From the Guardian: “Facebook recorded international growth of 270% in the past year, according to the latest comScore data, which shows the site’s estimated unique user figure rising from 14.083m in...
View ArticleSocial Networks for the Enterprise | businessweek.com
To the corporate, social media is both a threat and an opportunity. Let’s be real here: disgruntled or sly employees can and will shift sensitive information, get out of the VW camper bus and turn off...
View ArticleDigital Natives will drive Enterprise 2.0 | Gartner research
Research firm Gartner have published a report underlining what many in the Enterprise 2.0 field, and what the previous post referred to: your organisation will have Web 2.0 technologies in it, some for...
View ArticleFacebook: 10 lessons for the enterprise (so far)
Love it or hate it, Facebook and other social media are here and they’re changing the online habits of your employees and customers. It would be churlish to dismiss social media as a fad with no...
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Tim B-L on the Net, Web and Social Graph
Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web, has a great way of putting internet terminology into focus, from his unique vantage point. I reproduce some concepts here for simplification: The Net...
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Amazon’s social network
Following on the heels (or should that be the leap that wasn’t pre-looked) of Facebook’s consumer advertising platform Beacon, Amazon has allowed its users to build up records of what they’ve bought...
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Trawling for advice on Vignette
I recently had the need to get information on Vignette (story server) in a hurry, and followed a certain methodology which is no doubt common to many. In order: Google Vignette’s site Wikipedia Phone...
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