Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is reported as having changed his mind about privacy. The recent set of changes to the site’s T&Cs in December – which rendered members’ names, profile picture, gender, network, fan pages and friends visible to the world unless they explicitly changed their settings – merely reflects societal
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Just a quick note to point out the publisher-sanctioned free PDF available of The Art of Community by Jono Bacon. It’s a guide to building and running online communities and social networks. Bacon is the community manager for the Ubuntu operating system, the dominance The latest data from Hitwise suggests that the battle between social networks is pretty much a one-horse race. Facebook wins. Top 10 Social Networking Websites & Forums — November 2009 Facebook gets four times the traffic of its closest competitor, MySpace. Twitter – so beloved of the media and apparently the word In a story from the Onion news network, an archaeologist discovers traces of an ancient network of people known as Friendster. Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of ‘Friendster’ Civilization Not so much ‘fake’ news on this occasion. More like news that hasn’t happened yet. I can see this being broadcast 100 years from now. 42.6% of respondents say they feel less inhibited interacting online than face-to-face. 20% say they lashed out at companies or products thanks to the anonymity of online interaction. 31.5% say that online interaction let them do something they’d been wanting to do. Research from Euro RSCG suggests (as you’d have guessed) that Continue reading SocNet Users Enhance Relationships, Lose Inhibitions Like many people, I’m really looking forward to the UK publication of David McCandless’ The Visual Miscellaneum. This graphic might come as a surprise to some people. If the main way you’ve found out about social media is through conference programmes and the most frequently cited blog posts, you could not be blamed for |             | |||
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