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Christine Rosen on Virtual Friendships And The New Narcissism: /Message
continuous partial friendship", "ambient intimacy", why the "hidden call to a return to a mythical, fallen Golden Age" (lost of "primary" life & relationships) iSomething Different IS Happening: Social Media
the impact on society as more and more people connect on the web.As this occurs, he says " that the principles of openness, transparency, diversity, and egalitarianism that engender web culture&qInterview with danah boyd: O'Reilly Network
Interview with danah boydUnintended Consequences at University: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
Our circle of intimacy is restricted to between 5-8. When you and I arrived at University, we left behind our “Best Friends” and we had no way of staying in the frequent contact that is essential to mYou Are Not My Friend - TIME
It's weird that I know more about you than I do about actual friends I hang out with in person--whom I propose we distinguish by calling non-metafriendsMore, But Not Merrier - WSJ.com
Although the numbers of friends people have on these sites can be massive, the actual number of close friends is approximately the same in the face to face real worldON SUNNY AMBITIONS: *michael parekh on IT*
Unusual behavior for a CEO. Schwartz will tell you he's less interested in reaching a few hundred CIOs (the people who actually buy things from Sun) than he is in impressing a teenager using the JavaBlogs more valuable than a billion dollar campaign: Communities Dominate Brands
What did Jonathan Schwartz say about his 1000 bloggers at Sun Microsystems? That his 1000 bloggers have done more his company than a $1bn Ad campaignCommunities Dominate Politics: Communities Dominate Brands
The economics of networked information production and the social practices of networked conversations fundamentally change the role that individuals can play in cultural and knowledge production andConsumer power | Shop affronts | Economist.com
We see the " wikinomics " of the developement of the Boeing 737, we see the BBC opening its API's at BBC backstage where people are co-creating exciting mashups, we see Team buying in ChiLeveraging the Knowledge of Our Peers: Online Communities Hold the Promise to Enhance Scientific Research: Communities Dominate Brands
We see the "Social networking" benefitng science (SIPHS) Leveraging the Knowledge of Our Peers: Online Communities Hold the Promise to Enhance Scientific ResearchSocial Behavior of Human
The most striking characteristic of Homo sapiens is our sociality. Social relationships pervade every aspect of human life and these relationships are far more extensive, complex, and diverse (withinThe New Atlantis - Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism - Christine Rosen
Self-portraits can be especially instructive. By showing the artist both as he sees his true self and as he wishes to be seen. Today, our self-portraits are democratic and digital; they are crafted frDoes Your CEO Get Web 2.0? « Web Worker Daily
If the CEO of your company came to you one day and said, “Tell me what we’re doing about Web 2.0,” how prepared would you be for the discussion? Here’s one way to lead the conversationLeveraging Ideas :: Is Web 2.0 Relevant Anymore?
Web 2.0 is really an encapsulation of the greater economy: trends relating to the internet, human communication and investment opportunities. As such, agreeing upon a definition would be impossible b/Is a Web Bubble Bursting? - WSJ.com
Trouble is, Internet traffic growth may be slowing world-wide, according to the researcher who debunked the hype behind the first bubble. Andrew Odlyzko, a professor at the University of Minnesota, haNew Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age - New York Times
Older people are sticky. That is the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and 20-somethingsBuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Business 2.0 - publishing 1.0 = 0
Business 2.0 should not have been a product but a community; it could have been the magazine that shows how that’s done. Sadly, this magazine was made by a 1.0 company that just didn’t understand howPersonal Scalability : [chrisbrogan.com]
When I talk to businesses about using social media and social networking tools, I'll tell you that most of them hear the premise behind Twitter and Facebook and videoblogging and immediately tell me tSocial Network Quirks Hurt Brand Ad Biz - eMarketer
US social networking revenues may hit $1 billion in 2007, up from $400 million in 2006, according to IDC's "Social Networking Services in the US – Popular, Yes, But How to Monetize Them?" reSo what is an Enthusiast Evangelist? - Alex Barnett blog
The Enthusiast Evangelist role is a newly created position at Microsoft. Our jobs are basically to go out and mingle, bond, and touch influential end users and show them all the cool things that MicroThe Facebook economy - Aug. 23, 2007
"Netscape browsed the Web, Yahoo organized it, Google searched it, and now Facebook has made it social," says Seth Goldstein, co-founder of SocialMedia, a small shop in Mill Valley, Calif.Web 2.0 What Went Wrong? - Trebor Scholz 'journalisms' - Collectivate.net
The course starts with a history of computer-facilitated networked sociality. We’ll discuss the preconditions, motivations, and typologies of participation in order to then start to debunk the Web 2.0Peter Kollock
My research focuses on cooperation and exchange. I study a wide range of situations in which group members gain by cooperating but where a temptation to behave selfishly exists.. factors that encouragWhy Invest in Social Features for Your Web Site?
The design team behind the USAToday.com web site, for example, recently enhanced their site with new social features including comments, reviews, discussion forums, and the ability to make recommendatSocial proof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Social proof, also known as informational social influence, is a psychological phenomenon that occurs in ambiguous social situations when people are unable to determine the appropriate mode of behavioUS launches ‘MySpace for spies’: FT.com
Spies and teenagers normally have little in common but that is about to change as America's intelligence agencies prepare to launch "A-Space", an internal communications tool modelled on the
