Not a day goes by without some kind of revelation about what’s being done with our user-generated content and our personal information on social networking sites and blog networks. The scandal around Facebook’s Beacon project, whose aim is to track and broadcast what Facebook users are doing on the Web, forced Facebook to back down. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social networks’
Users revolt: blog network turns out to be owned by a marketing agency
Posted: 28 December 2007 in TechnologyTags: Advertising, facebook, privacy, social networks
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My perfect social network: inefficient and sometimes unreliable
Posted: 26 December 2007 in TechnologyTags: facebook, linkedin, social networks
Danah Boyd has an excellent post on why efficiency and reliability are not necessarily good things in a social networking application: Social technologies that make things more efficient reduce the cost of action. Yet, that cost is often an important signal. We want communication to cost something because that cost signals that we value the [...]
Facebook problem: when everyone is on it, time to leave
Posted: 30 November 2007 in TechnologyTags: facebook, linkedin, social networks
Cory Doctorow has written an excellent piece about how Facebook suffers from exactly the same dilemma suffered by earlier online social networks: when everyone’s on, it’s not cool anymore. And worse — you’ll need to “defriend” people. Oh how to do this without offending people? You can’t. Here’s an excerpt from Cory’s article: You’d think [...]
Is this all Facebook can do?
Posted: 11 November 2007 in TechnologyTags: Advertising, facebook, social networks
Here is a screenshot of my Facebook newsfeed dated 10 November 2007. Pay attention to the California Car Insurance sponsored ad in my feed. Is this all Facebook can do – insert stupid irrelevant sponsored ads about California car insurance to a person who lives in Amsterdam? Facebook is purportedly worth $15 billion. If my [...]
Plaxo online: yet another time-wasting network
Posted: 7 August 2007 in TechnologyTags: social networks
Add Plaxo to my list of totally useless time-wasting online applications filed under Web 2.0 and social networking. I signed up a few weeks ago for Plaxo’s online beta service just to see what it’s like. I was not impressed with what I saw and promptly forgot about it. In the meantime, I canceled my [...]
