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Measuring Measures: Social Networks Without the Networking
Great blog post. It's not about your friends, it's about their content.
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The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online
Amazing article by Kevin Kelly about the rise of "The New Socialism".
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Introducing MOBhat « 70’s Futurisitic Technology
I am ready to launch my Lifestreaming experiment… and I need your help. Video Introduction to the MOBhat social identity faceting service.
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A simple well executed "Share This" widget.
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HTTP Client Library for PHP As I mentioned in my last post, I’m currently spending a lot of time thinking about and coding PHP libraries for the various Open Stack protocols.... HTTP. We need good HTTP support in the Open Stack libraries to do basic things like fetching metadata documents, and sending OAuth and OpenID requests. Some things to think consider:
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DiSo Project. Instead of continuing to concentrate on some of the higher level deliverables like WordPress plugins, I decided it was time to step back and evaluate where the development community (specifically the PHP development community) is with the Open Stack.
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Mrinal went online during the last economic downturn and started discovering new social networks to learn from. While there was a certain thrill to them, he found that these social interactions online were "becoming like a cat person" and asked, "Are you genuinely connected? Are you making friends or adding friends?"
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An interesting social networking site. It did a great job of guessing who I was on various sites.
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Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy - Boing Boing
Grimmelmann is trying to do nothing less than re-shape our attitude towards privacy on social networks, building an erudite and extensively documented argument that our framing of privacy problems, and most of the solutions we have in mind, are bad fits for social networking services.
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Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy
This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result.

