Tag Archive for 'social networks'

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In praise of my Facebook friends.

I still don’t think much of Facebook itself, but the friends I’ve made on it are fairly awesome. Why? I asked them to “like” my entry for the contest above and upwards of 200 did so, no questions asked.

I thought I had a pretty strong chance of making the shortlist, at least. But I woke up yesterday morning to this…

My me-too social object theory post.

Many thanks to James Whatley for sending this my way; he likely understands this much better than I do but I’m going to attempt my own description and cross my fingers that I get it somewhat right.

You might be interested in social object theory if (1) you’re building a social network, (2) you’re building a community within an existing network or (3) you’re trying to figure out what makes successful social networks tick. I’m posting this for that third reason…

Trying Disqus again… Comments?

Back in April I damned Disqus and its rival IntenseDebate as solutions in search of a problem. And now, four months later, I’m giving Disqus another go.

As was the case previously, there are two significant cons to using the service…

My three issues with Foursquare.

I first heard about Foursquare last summer, when one of my fellow N97 24/7 bloggers informed me that he had just become the mayor of the hotel we had just checked into.

Huh?

My favourite microblogging client.

Gwibber does one thing that no other microblogging app I’ve ever used can do. It’s simple and obvious, and in my opinion makes it an indispensable tool for someone with multiple accounts on Twitter and/or Identi.ca…