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The argument against likes: aim for deeper, more genuine interactions

Sat, 08 Aug 2020 13:33:30 -0700

It’s worth revisiting the infamous 2005 definition of social software as software that facilitates social encounters:

TikTok vs. Instagram

Fri, 03 Jan 2020 15:02:46 -0700

Connie Chan: Rather than asking users to tap into a video thumbnail or click into a channel, the app’s AI algorithms decide which videos to show users.

Twitter Is Like A Conversation In A Bar

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:29:57 +0000

Mathew Ingram on Twitter, Esquire Magazine, and bars: It’s called social media because it’s social. In other words, it’s a conversation; and yes, sometimes it’s like a conversation in a bar.

Huffington Post Introduces Badges and Social Rewards

Thu, 20 May 2010 17:48:21 +0000

How do you make news fun? Or, how do you make moderating often fractious comments on news stories fun?

Social Media Usage Stats

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:28:06 +0000

Retrevo claims to help electronics shoppers decide what to buy, when to buy, and where to buy it,” so their recent survey on social media addition is probably more significant as link bait than as serious research.

Do Facebook Ads Work?

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:46:41 +0000

All Facebook is happy to share the ten laws of Facebook advertising, but will those rules lead to better results than the .

Andy Peatling on BuddyPress

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:25:36 +0000

Why BuddyPress? “Build passionate users around a specific niche.” Do you have to become a social network?

Facebook’s Favorite Metadata

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:58:03 +0000

[Facebook’s guide to sharing][1] details some meta tags to make that sharing work better: In order to make sure that the preview is always correctly populated, you should add the tags shown below to your html.

Jeeves Is Back! Does Your Organization Need Its Own Avatar/Personality?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:11:54 +0000

If you remember Ask.com, you probably remember Jeeves. Now he’s back on the UK site.

WiFi Is Critical To Academia, The WiFi Alliance Says

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:47:10 +0000

A study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following: WiFi and college choice 90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers 57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi 79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder 60% agree that widely available Wi-Fi on campus is an indication that a school cares about its students WiFi and where they use it 55% have connected from coffee shops and restaurants 47% from parks 24% from in their cars WiFi in the classroom 55% have checked Facebook™ or MySpace™ and sent or received e-mail while using their laptop in class 47% have sent instant messages to a friend during class 44% used Wi-Fi to get a head start on an assignment before a class was finished WiFi and linkbaiting statistics If forced to choose, 48% would give up beer before giving up Wi-Fi Survey methodology: “In conjunction with the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wakefield Research surveyed 501 U.

What Is Social Media?

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:04:03 +0000

Social Media in Plain English and RSS In Plain English, among others from Common Craft among the best explanations you’ll find.

Beginner’s Guide to DataPortability, The Video

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:16:25 +0000

DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut on Vimeo.

From DataPortability.org:

The DataPortability Project is a group created to promote the idea that individuals have control over their data by determing how they can use it and who can use it. This includes access to data that is under the control of another entity.

You should be able to decide what you do with that data and how it gets used by others

Open Source solutions are preferred to closed source proprietary solutions

Bottom-up distributed solutions are preferred to top down centralized solutions

My DevCamp Lightning Talk

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:15:47 +0000

Hi, I’m Casey. I developed Scriblio, which is really just a faceted search and browse plugin for WordPress that allows you to use it as a library catalog or digital library system (or both).

SWIFT: Another Ham Handed Attempt At Social Networking

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:11:35 +0000

All yesterday and this morning I’ve been seeing tweets about SWIFT, so I finally googled it to see what it was about.

Is Facebook Really The Point?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:55:31 +0000

A post to Web4lib alerted me to this U Mich survey about libraries in social networks (blog post) that finds 77% of students don’t care for or want libraries in Facebook or MySpace.

Object-Based vs. Ego Based Social Networks vs. WoW and Second Life

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:50:29 +0000

There are so many cool things in Fred Stutzman’s recent post, but this point rang the bell for me just as I was considering the differences between World of Warcraft and Second Life.

Internet Safety

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:25:19 +0000

NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum.

The Sky Is Falling

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:35:58 +0000

MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed.

The Rules, 2007

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:01:19 +0000

[innerindex]Web 2.0 has matured to the point where even those who endorse the moniker are beginning to cringe at its use.

Awkward Moments In Social Software

Wed, 02 May 2007 21:17:50 +0000

We all know social networking may be a feature, not an application, but one person’s feature can become another’s bane.

Twitter Twitter Anti-Twitter

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:17:34 +0000

My own feelings about Twitter have gone back and forth across indecision street for a while, and despite a moment of excitement it’s still not part of my life-kit.

Second School?

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:14:12 +0000

Rebecca Nesson, speaking via Skype and appearing before us as her avatar in Second Life, offered her experiences as a co-instructor of Harvard Law School‘s CyberOne, a course being held jointly in a meatspace classroom and in Second Life, and open to students via Harvard Law, the Harvard Extension School, and to the public that shows up in Second Life.

Social Learning On The Cluetrain?

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:43:00 +0000

They don’t want to engage in chat with their professors in the classroom space, they want to chat with other students in their own space.

Social Software In Learning Environments

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:49:37 +0000

It’s really titled Social Software for Teaching & Learning, and I’m here with John Martin, who’s deeply involved with our learning management system and portfolio efforts (especially as both of these are subject to change real soon now).

Linkability Fertilizes Online Communities Redux

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:46:38 +0000

I certainly don’t mean this to be as snarky as it’s about to come out, but I love the fact that Isaak questions my claim that linkability is essential to online discussions (and thus, communities) with a link:

Inclusion Is Addictive

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:10:19 +0000

Lichen, who’s had a great string of posts lately, pointed out Amy Campbell‘s website, which opens with the following:

Workflow Goes Social

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:02:08 +0000

I was amused this week to see two examples of workflow getting sexy. That’s not how the developers describe their efforts, but the departure from old groupware notions is clear.

The Social Software Over There

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:01:04 +0000

Amusing. One one side of the world is Jenny Levine, the original library RSS bigot, pushing libraries to adopt new technologies from the bottom up, and here on the other side of the world is NewsGator offering their products for top-down adoption.

DOPA, Social Software, and Libraries

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:43:33 +0000

I’m more than a month late to this bandwagon, but whatever. Jessamyn alerted me to DOPA, the proposed Deleting Online Predators Act.

Linkability Fertilizes Online Communities

Mon, 15 May 2006 14:58:32 +0000

It’s hard to know how Fuzzyfruit found the WPopac catalog page for A Baby Sister for Frances (though it is ranked fifth in a Google search for the title), but what matters is that she did find it, and she was able to link to it by simply copying the URL from her browser’s location bar.

Living The Life Embarrassing, Stupid Online

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:49:44 +0000

Without contradicting the moral weight of social software post from last week, let’s take a moment to look at three stories from Arstechnica about MySpace and others: online video leads to teen arrests, shooting rampage avoided due to MySpace posting, and Google + Facebook + alcohol = trouble.

The Wealth of Networks

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:44:46 +0000

Wendy Seltzer gave a shout-out for Yochai Nenkler‘s The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, describing it as…

Danah Boyd On The Moral Weight Of Social Software

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:29:57 +0000

Danah Boyd posted recently at Many-to-Many about the future of social software. I’ve been more than a little bit gung ho on web 2.

Identity Management In Social Spaces

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:47:53 +0000

(note: the following is cross-posted at Identity Future.) Being that good software — the social software that’s nearly synonymous with Web 2.

Involvement, Inclusion, Collaboration

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:12:31 +0000

Peter Caputa dropped a comment on Jeff Nolan‘s post about Zvents. The discussion was about how online event/calendar aggregators did business in a world where everything is rather thinly distributed.

Facial Recognitition Spytech Goes Social

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:47:13 +0000

Troy expressed both great amusement and trepidation in his message alerting me to Riya, a new photo sharing site:

Our Connected Students

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:07:39 +0000

Just when you thought I was done talking about how the internet really does touch everything, Lichen posts some details from the most recent University of New Hampshire Res Life student survey and it gets me going again.

This Is What Social Software Can Do

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:41:25 +0000

The FlickrBlog reports this message from Gale: People have been submitting good humpback whale fluke shots to a group called Humpback whale flukes.

The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:21:49 +0000

Bob Garlitz, who’s trying to decide between blogging at Typepad and Blogspot, wrote to offer a somewhat older phrase for the success of social software as described in The Wisdom of Crowds and in the definition of collabulary: “the ignorant perfection of ordinary people.

PodBop Rocks Your Calendar

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:16:54 +0000

Ryan Eby pointed out PodBop, a site that podcasts sample tracks from bands coming to your area (or any other area you select), and we both wished we’d thought of it ourselves.

What Does Facebook Matter To Libraries?

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:03:41 +0000

Lichen pointed me to this Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette post about new technologies: Keep up to date with new technologies that you can co-opt for library use.

Jenny Levine’s Online Library User Manifesto

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:42:21 +0000

Drawing from John Blyberg‘s ILS Customer’s Bill of Rights and The Social Customer Manifesto, Jenny Levine offers this Online Library User Manifesto:

Social Software Works For Organizations Too

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:02:20 +0000

Ignore the politics for a moment. MoveOn‘s CTO, Patrick Michael Kane, remarked that the organization’s membership to Flickr, the photo sharing site, has paid off: “Flickr has got to be the best $24.

Nature Concludes Wikipedia Not Bad

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:38:46 +0000

Fresh from Nature: a peer reveiw comparison of Wikipedia’s science coverage against Encyclopaedia Britannica: One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.

Yahoo! Rocks The Web

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:34:32 +0000

No, I don’t mean that they’re disrupting it, I mean they’re getting it. And in saying that, I don’t mean they’re figured it our first, but they they’re making some damn good acquisitions to get it right.

Identity Management Podcast

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:18:24 +0000

Josh Porter and Alex Barnett got Dick Hardt and Kim Cameron on the line to talk about Identity Management.

Who’s Afraid Of Wikipedia?

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:52:42 +0000

Arguments about Wikipedia‘s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn.

My Wife The Technology Dependent Anti-Geek

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:52:36 +0000

My wife Sandee cringes at the suggestion that she’s a geek. She writes poetry and teaches English, she cooks fabulous meals and dances all night long.

Collective Intelligence: Wisdom Of The Crowds

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:07:05 +0000

I’m here at NEASIS&T’s “Social Software, Libraries, and the Communities that (could) Sustain Them” event, presented by Steven Cohen.

Wolfram’s Tones

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:14:45 +0000

WolframTones mixes hard science with social software in the form of a ringtone generator.

Internet, Interactivity, & Youth

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:40:47 +0000

Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers.

SwarmSketch

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:28:25 +0000

Via Information Nation, I found SwarmSketch. Here’s the description: SwarmSketch: Collective sketching of the collective consciousness.

New social web apps

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:55:31 +0000

Ross Mayfield’s new social software list discusses Ning, Flock, Wink, Memeorandum, Sphere, and Rollyo.

11 Minutes of Attention

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:11:57 +0000

I won’t link to The New York Times anymore, but when Ross Mayfield quotes them, I don’t have to.

What’s Zimbra?

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:00:43 +0000

They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs.

Flock

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:12:56 +0000

The developers describe Flock as [T]he world’s most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web.