Category Archives: Social Networking
Apple Knows Where You Are and Tells Others
Privacy matters. As you know, I love apple products, but according to apple’s new privacy policy, this is very facebooky… “To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data [...]
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
Matt McKeon a developer with the Visual Communication Lab at IBM Research’sCenter for Social Software has this interesting post: “The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population [...]
Pandora and the Song Decoders
I love Pandora and its human based suggestion engine, the Genome Project. In this article, The New York Times explores Pandora and how it and others find your new favorite song. And it isn’t by collaborative filtering… “However things play out for Pandora as a business, its approach is worth understanding if you’re interested in [...]
How to Style an Application Like Facebook
Nice article by Bill Konrad over at socialsnippets.com that covers the default facebook css styling: http://www.socialsnippets.com/snippets/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook.aspx “…explore how we can style our Facebook application to look and feel like an extension of the Facebook platform. We will examine colors, fonts, dimensions and a few common design patterns utlized by the Facebook platform in our quest [...]
Social Reputation Design Pattern Described by Yahoo
Reputation Design Pattern “A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others, but each designed model of participation and reputation embodies its own set of biases and incentive structures. Balancing these forces determines in large measure the success or failure of a [...]
Situated Software
Clay Shirky’s Situated Software: Clay says, “I teach at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between technologists who care about aesthetics and artists who aren’t afraid of machines, which makes it a pretty good place to see the future.”
Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software
Not exactly sure if it is the “Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software” but worth a mention…link