Tag Archives: social networking
Strong ties, weak ties, social software and online friendship
Relationships are hard. Friendships take time to build, even if annealed in the heat of a moment. Often they’re situational, forged in school, work, church, or sporting teams, and may fade over time if not renewed regularly. Online social networking … Continue reading
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Using social media for better journalism: @Sreenet at #ONADC
“I used to say “justify every pixel,” said Sree Sreenivasan. “Now I say earn every reader.” Sreenivasan, a dean of student affairs and professor at the Columbia Journalism School, went beyond “what Jeff Jarvis calls the blog boy dance,” offering … Continue reading
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Tech Term of the Week: Location-based service (LBS) bacn
Over the past year, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated by the prevalence of notifications about mayorships and badges on Foursquare or finds on Gowalla. During the SXSW festival, it grew monumentally worse. As location-based services (LBS) like Foursquare and Gowalla have … Continue reading
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The world “diggs” virtual farming for social gaming online [#RusTechDel]
Russians and Americans both love virtual farming? The popularity of Zynga’s “Farmville” for among Facebook’s 400 million users is well known. Given 69 million active monthly players, Farmville is bigger than Twitter. A less publicized statistic is that users of Russia’s … Continue reading
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Google reacts to negative Buzz, improves privacy settings. Will it be enough?
As the Wall Street Journal reported today, Google’s development team has been working “feverishly” to tweak Buzz privacy settings. Earlier tonight, Google responded to widespread privacy concerns about Buzz, its new social messaging platform. Todd Jackson, Buzz product manager, annouced … Continue reading
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Google Buzz: adding algorithmic authority and relevance to social media
A few minutes ago, Google Buzz went live at http://buzz.google.com. Google posted a video introducing the Buzz, which ties together Google contacts into a distributed social network accessed through a new tab in Gmail. In a live webcast on YouTube, … Continue reading
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Trends and challenges for social media in 2010
What will the rest of 2010 hold for social media? I’m certain will see collaborative technologies be used to cover events and disasters on the real-time Web. I’m also certain that three issues will dominate the space over the next … Continue reading
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Takeaways from Day 1 of #140Conf: The real-time Web disrupts the media
Kudos to Jeff Pulver and his staff for creating what turned out to be an extraordinary day of discussion and learning, not to mention more than a little music and humor. Following is a digest of some of my favorite … Continue reading
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Top 5 Twitter tips and the best Twitter tools [podcast]
My colleague, Elaine Hom, was kind enough to invite me to sit in on her website’s monthly podcast, “Reality Check.” In the episode, I offered up my “Top Twitter tips and the best Twitter tools“ I was well-caffeinated, as you’ll … Continue reading
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What is the ROI in Social Media? Humana, EMC, MarketSpace, Communispace at MassTLC
Image via Wikipedia A forum organized by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council addresses one of the hottest questions in social media: how do you measure the return on investment (ROI) for these platform? The panel, part of a “Social Media … Continue reading
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