Having had a few weeks to digest both my initial thoughts on Google+ and the experience of actually using it, I thought I’d step back and offer a 30,000-foot-view of where I think things are, and are going, in this space. First: Google+ is still pretty nice, even if it doesn’t quite know what it [...]
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The Future of SNS and User Research
Posted in privacy, research, sns on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Shape of Things to Come – Google+ and the “Next” Social Network
Posted in sns on July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s been less than 10 years since the initial rise of Friendster, the first mass-popularity online social network. Since its rise and (lamentable) fall, MySpace has grown and shrunk, and Facebook pioneered an ever-upwards trajectory. Though the implementation and particular social networks harnessed in each of these cases has been different, all have shared a [...]
Google+ and Social Interfaces
Posted in sns on July 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Several days into using Google+ myself, I can say for certain that whatever the long-term impact of the suite of services will be, it is in a meaningful way a complete success. What it’s successful at is something I’m still trying to articulate, but a key aspect of it is that it just feels different. This [...]
Google+ Under the Macroscope
Posted in sns on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most fascinating parts about Google+ so far, from my perspective (i.e., outside looking in, not having an invite m’self, yet) is the absolute flood of commentary on the project. Following on my very early reads-and-reactions post, there’s been more discussion and commentary, just within my immediate network, than I can properly summarize. [...]
Google+ Reads and Reactions
Posted in sns on June 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After a lot of buildup and false starts, Google is finally rolling out (well, soft-launching) a social networking something-or-other. Obviously Google is already a serious social hub, but the various attempts at Google-as-SNS haven’t quite caught fire (unless you’re Brazilian). This is clearly worthy of some substantial attention – not just with Google being one [...]
Forcing the Party Line
Posted in privacy, research, sns on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The shift in Facebook privacy settings takes as its central premise that the advances in telephone communications of the past century were a bad idea. It is forcing all of its users into an always-on global party line, where the conversations are transcribed and sold to all interested parties.
Selling the Footage
Posted in sns on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hunh: A Russian Internet investment firm has invested $200 million in Facebook, giving the social networking company a cash buffer during the recession and pegging its value at $10 billion.Digital Sky Technologies, which has invested in leading Russian web properties like Mail.ru and Vkontakte.ru, will take a nearly 2 percent stake in Facebook in exchange [...]
What is Facebook for?
Posted in identity, sns on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alice Marwick directed me to an interesting analysis on Facebook’s redesign, which posits that, Facebook’s new design, as many of us have been noting since the company began testing it months ago, seems to emphasis features also seen in trendy new web services favored by us self-styled “early adopter” types. Mark Slee of Facebook, in [...]
Social vs. Collaborative Spaces
Posted in collaboration, sns on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been ruminating for a while now on The Real Paul Jones’ excellent post on the differences between social and collaborative spaces and practices, and the implications: This points out the weaknesses of social networks versus networks for collaboration. When using say del.icio.us, I want collaborators for much of my research and teaching and work. [...]
Twitter as Expressive Identity Affordance
Posted in identity, sns on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There was a thoughtspurt the other day among several components of my distributed non-me thoughtspace – Fred and Warren Ellis commenting on a Techcrunch post, the Real Paul Jones commenting on Fred’s post and offering his own thoughts – and all of it together, and substantial other peer pressure, convinced me to join Twitter. And [...]
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