social networks

Analytics in social systems

May 23, 2007

Mike Gotta, writing about the role of analytics in social systems, has posted a pretty neat view of what the ideal collective intelligence system built around social networks would be. He has mashed together a whole series of products and ideas from different people (including the New Presence manifesto) to produce this view of the world: [...]

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Wallingford on social networks and cell phones

May 5, 2007

Ted Wallingford's riff on social networks and mobile phones is worth a read. His basic points are: the main end user control point for identity will become the cell phone. social networks are formed around a core of identity. phones are just now becoming devices that are capable of supporting rich social networking applications. Provocative [...]

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Social Voice: The Future.

October 18, 2006

Yesterday, LiveJournal and Gizmo launched their new services allowing the use of voice in LiveJournal sessions.Â TMCNet’s Patrick Barnard wrote an extensive feature on the topic.Â Coincidentally, ZDNet’s Russell Shaw wrote a critique of Friendster, concluding that adding VoIP wouldn’t have helped.Â And, on Monday, Martin Geddes’ opening speech at Voice 2.0 opined that VoIP [...]

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Radio Handi, Now On The Air

May 16, 2006

The beta of Radio Handi, billing itself as the Party Line for Planet Earth, went live this evening.Â In a nutshell, Radio Handi is an open-line conferencing+BBS+Email notification system+SMS notification system, married to a social network.Â Wrap your head around that for a minute.Â You can do things like: quickly relay voice messages about news [...]

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Flixster: The Moviegoers Social Network

May 9, 2006

I discovered Flixster last night, and instantly fell in love.Â Here’s a social network built around watching movies, something which we at the Saunders household do lots.Â The premise is really simple: join, convince your friends to join, share, rate, and watch movies together.Â As you watch them, your preferences are accumulated, and together you [...]

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