How Many Friends Do You Have? Not As Many As Me!
Posted by Nick O'Neill on January 6th, 2009 2:47 PMThis afternoon I was reading an article by Julian Sanchez which describes the scene yesterday as Republicans debated the future Republican National Committee Chair. One of the most memorable segments of the debate is highlighted by the Washington Post:
“We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today,” Duncan ventured.
“Let me just say that I have 4,000 friends on Facebook,” contributed Blackwell, putting his hand on Dawson’s and Anuzis’s knees. “That’s probably more than these two guys put together, but who’s counting, you know?” Acknowledged Saltsman: “I’m not sure all of us combined Twitter as much as Saul.”
Anuzis claimed he had “somewhere between 2- and 3,000″ Facebook friends, which prompted Blackwell to remind the audience that he has 4,000 friends on the social networking site by waving four fingers behind Anuzis’s head.
What was interesting is how some of the leading members of the Republican party could not help but exchange in a friendly debate over who has the most friends on Facebook and Twitter. It’s amazing the power that the number of our friends in social networks has in the general perception of our social status. Many of the top Facebook users boast proudly of their “whale” status (users with 5,000 friends on Facebook are also called “whales”) and I regularly find myself engaged in a conversation about the number of friends I have on Facebook.
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College Kids and Parents Connect Online. Is This Bad?
Posted by Kristen Nicole on January 5th, 2009 3:46 PM
A new study from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in the United Kingdom reports that more British parents are using newer technology to stay connected with their children away at school, according to AllHeadlines.
Now, my mother and I weren’t always the best of friends, but while in college I still called her every Sunday afternoon. Back then, I called her on her landline. She rarely used her cell phone and had no idea how to send or receive text messages. Things have changed in the past few years, and my mother now happily embraces her Blackberry, email and LinkedIn. But how much easier would things have been if my mother had been on an online social network when I was in college?
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...The Curse of the Shiny Object
Posted by Nick O'Neill on January 4th, 2009 2:18 AM
The past year has been an incredible one but over the past few months I’ve begun to lose sight of my vision and things have become increasingly unclear. What once started as an inspired attempt to build a successful blog, turned in to a never-ending daily grind, the exact thing I was trying to avoid when this all began. I increased my daily blogging volume from one post a day initially (back when I was writing TheWebpreneur.com), to eventually 10 to 12 posts a day at my max.
It’s clear why I was doing so. When I started blogging two and a half years ago I started after reading people like Mike Arrington, Pete Cashmore, Om Malik, Richard MacManus, Robert Scoble, and the numerous other thought leaders in the technology blogging space and said to myself “I can do that!” Ultimately I think I’ve proven to myself that anything is possible and I’ve also learned some important lessons from following this industry obsessively.
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(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Facebook Sues Power.com for Not Using Facebook Connect
Posted by Kristen Nicole on January 2nd, 2009 4:59 PM
Just last month Brazil-based Power.com launched a social networking aggregator that brought together your activity from across Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, and Hi5, to name a few. But just weeks after revealing its putlic beta, Power.com is being sued by none other than Facebook itself.
As a social networking aggregator Power.com doesn’t appear to be doing anything wrong, but the way in which it’s accessing Facebook user data is non-compliant with Facebook’s terms. According to The New York Times, Facebook has spent over a month in discussions with Power.com to try to reach an agreement in regards to accessing user data, but no agreement could be reached. As a result, Facebook has filed a complaint against Power.com in Unied Sates Disctrict Court in San Jose, California, for copyright and trademark infringement, unlawful competition and violation of the computer fraud and abuse act, among other charges.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...LinkedIn InApps - 2008 Review
Posted by Will M on January 2nd, 2009 11:18 AM
LinkedIn launched its Intelligent Applications (InApps) developer platform on October 28th, 2008. InApps is widely considered to be LinkedIn’s “answer” to the Facebook Platform. AllFacebook covered InApps from its initial rumors. We have eagerly followed InApps’ evolution as an important member of the OpenSocial initiative whose successes would also help Google, MySpace, Hi5 and others in their efforts to compete with Facebook’s third party developer platform.
As 2008 comes to a close, we don’t believe that the current incarnation of InApps will help LinkedIn truly compete with Facebook user engagement and third party developer participation. OpenSocial developers who created applications for InApps did not innovate based on LinkedIn’s core strengths relative to Facebook, and LinkedIn itself seems hesitant to truly follow Facebook’s lead based on potential conflicts between InApps and its established business model.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Social Media Takes Center Stage in Gaza War
Posted by Kristen Nicole on December 31st, 2008 11:43 AM
Israel is going for a more informative tactic with its coverage of the war its fighting against Hamas militants in Gaza, and its using social media as one of its main forms of increasing its transparency, reports Times Online. After receiving a great deal of flack from not doing so during the 2006 attack on Hezbollah strongholds in Southern Lebanon, Israel realized that the Internet too can be a powerful weapon.
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(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...SGN Settles Mob Wars Dispute
Posted by Nick O'Neill on December 31st, 2008 10:23 AM
Mob Wars, one of the supposed million dollar a month applications, was at the center of a dispute between SGN and David Maestri. According to SGN, the application was developed when Maestri was working at Freewebs, the Silver Spring based internet company that gave birth to what is now called Social Gaming Network. As Dan Kaplan explained back in August,
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...OpenID Organizes the Organizers While Facebook and Google Start Letting Users Login
Posted by Nick O'Neill on December 29th, 2008 10:18 AM
Commercial incentive is a powerful force, and in the race for our web identities there is no exception. Over the weekend the OpenID Foundation announced that they are having its first election of community board members. Meanwhile Facebook and Google have launched their own identity services that enable users to instantly log in to any site with third-party accounts. Google Friend Connect uses open standards while Facebook Connect uses it’s own identity confirmation system.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Scrapplet Launches Netvibes Competitor
Posted by Kristen Nicole on December 23rd, 2008 5:25 PM
What started as a Facebook app has grown into a full-fledged stand-alone service that lets you make scrapbooks (of sorts) from web content you find interesting or have created elsewhere on the web. RadWebTech has just launched Scrapplet, an alternative to services like Netvibes or even Tumblr, as it lets you collect items from across the web as well as integrated content from social networking and microblogging sites.
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...MySpace Suicide Leads to Missouri Cyberbully Laws
Posted by Kristen Nicole on December 23rd, 2008 4:02 PM
Cyberbullying is one of those semi-intangible acts that plays into the mysterious anonymity of the web, but that hasn’t stopped legislatures from trying to curb this very harming behavior. After a high profile suicide case in 2006, which was a result of cyberbullying that had occurred on MySpace, the state of Missouri has been trying to get more laws in place to better prosecute cyberbullying.
Ars Technica reports that a handful of changes made to the state’s harassment laws includes cyberbullying, which is something other forms of legislature across the world may begin to layer into their own existing harassment laws.
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