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 [...]
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 [...]
I started writing this post with an introduction something like this:
Is it just Pirates and Ninjas for you, or do you use it as a communications medium/platform, like email? (Just more informal and personable?)
But then I started thinking, the beauty of social networking, as mediated through the internet, is that it reflects our social networking [...]
