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- Powering Facebook's proverbial brain: your Identity, Social Graph, and Lifestream data
- In Tim O'Reilly's influential Web 2.0 manifesto', written in late 2005, he wrote: "The race is on to own certain classes of core data: location, identity, calendaring of public events, product identifiers and namespaces. In many cases... the winner will be the company that first reaches critical mass via user...
- Tags: Facebook, Data, Social Graph, Identity, Lifestream Facebook Connect, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Managing data in the social graph
- Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook describes how the company manages data within its social network, and how its archiving and indexing structure differs from Google. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Data, Social Graph, Social Networking, Business Intelligence, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Facebook Ads: Monetizing the social graph and social graft
- Facebook Ads: Monetizing the social graph and social graftA Mraket that Google Can't Touch? Orkut.To say that Google can't tap into social marketing is far fetched at best.Google has relationships with most of the other major social networking sites and has orkut as it's own. I don't see much merit...
- Tags: Social networking, FACEBOOK ADS, Facebook, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Will you trust third parties with your Google social graph?
- Will you trust third parties with your Google social graph?What will happen?What happens if a social graph is compromised? http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/28/what-happens-when-a-social-graph-is-compromised/
- Tags: social graph, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Waiting for Zuckerberg
- Much has been written lately about open standards and APIs for social networks, allowing users to sprinkled and manage their social graphs circle of friends and business associates across disparate services--a kind of decentralized and more accessible, rather than siloed, social graph. Brad Fitzpatrick laid out the problem with...
- Tags: Social Networking, Graph, Facebook, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-19
- More thoughts on open social networks
- Following my post on social capital and open social networks, Anshu Sharma responded with an insightful analysis of how openness could transpire. It may not strictly be a user provoked uprising that spurs Facebook and others to make a transportable social graph, but a new player, or perhaps Google,...
- Tags: Social Networking, Graph, Facebook, Network, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Yahoo's search for a social graph
- Earlier this week I posted about Yahoo's missing piece, it's lack of a social networking hub at the center of its people-centric approach to providing Web-based applications and services. Yahoo's attempt at a social networking hub, Yahoo 360, hasn't gotten any traction, and there is a constant flow of rumors...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Supernova, Social networking, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graph
- Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graphMe.COM is my choice for this type of serviceDan - personally I perfer Me.COM for this type of service and suggest that you review it as well. Me.COM is rapidly becoming a force in the Social networking world and is being embraced by any number...
- Tags: Me.COM, social graph, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-05-26
- Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graph
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage in jeans, Adidas shower shoes and Northface polar fleece and told that crowd that they were at the beginning of a new movement. He then described the recent growth of the company and to the company's secret sauce--the social graph (see my earlier...
- Tags: General, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
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- Joost arrives for iPhone
- Back in April 2007 when I first wrote about Joost it was an invitation-only video streaming service from the wunderkind responsible for Skype and Kazaa. Back then it required you to download a proprietary client, then in October 2008 it morphed into a Web-based service. In its...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Joost, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Video, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The Paparazzi Social Media Problem
- Jevon McDonald, someone whose opinions I rate highly, has posted a stellar piece on 'The uncertain future of Blogging' today. The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned by blogging. Blogging was the conversation, blogging was the vehicle, blogging was the...
- Tags: Collaboration, Blog, Jevon, Blogging, Internet, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Is there no end to the AutoRun madness?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Let's skip any introduction and get straight to the point: We're currently facing a problem of epidemic proportions in malware that is spreading via removable devices. The U.S. army's recent...
- Tags: Floppy Disk, Malware, Microsoft Corp., USB, Virus, AutoRun, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Facebook Connect: The masses and the fishbowl
- Facebook Connect, a service that allows someone to log on to Facebook from third party sites, is set to expand from its May launch. Reading the conversation this morning on Techmeme familiar storyline emerges. Facebook's Connect vs. the Open Social alliance between Google, MySpace and a bunch...
- Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall
- There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...
- Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail
- If your company is considering trying to take advantage of the brewing conversations about Mumbai on social networks to squeeze in news about your company -- don't. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Marketing, Mumbai, Social Media, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates (good and bad) maturation point of social media
- We have individuals running amok with information and we have no way of knowing if what is reported via social media is true. And in situations like the response to the Mumbai attacks, this presents bona fide danger. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Mumbai, Social Media, Twitter, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward
- I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...
- Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Mumbai Attacks : Knowledge is Power
- There is a huge difference between verified information, speculation, incorrect information and disinformation. The net is buzzing about the communication enabled by Twitter, Flickr, youtube, wikipedia and bloggers from Mumbai, with CNN stating "It was the day social media appeared to come of...
- Tags: Event, Knowledge, Twitter, Attack, Wiki, Security, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
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