I’ve spent a while playing with Facebook’s newly announced feature, called Lexicon. It gives an interesting view into the sorts of things that social networking sites can do with the massive amount of user-created content that they hold.
Basically, Lexicon lets you compare how often keywords show up over time on people’s Walls in Facebook (no [...]
I’ve written about the utility of social networking services like Facebook before, and Chris Brogan offers (yet another) interesting take on why we use them. On a related note, Loic Le Meur Blog had a great story about how our social media maps are becoming more and more fractured and out of our control.
I really [...]
Since I was unable to attend South By Southwest this year, I have been working my way through the Interactive Panel podcasts and I hit on a real gem and I recommend that you check it out if you weren’t able to attend it in person:
The Art of Speed: Conversations With Monster Makers
This session will [...]
Social networking is great, but let’s get to the part when it isn’t…
Chris Brogan has an interesting response to an article in the Economist, where they lament the “walled gardens” that social networks are today, but look forward to the day that those walls come down, like Compuserve’s and AOL’s did in the 90’s. Chris [...]
Since I’ve been on Twitter, I’ve noticed that one important group of people is very underrepresented in the community - students.
Why are they not on Twitter? To me, it seems that Twitter would be the perfect medium for students to communicate with one another - SMS brought to the next level. Is it too early [...]
