The Real Life Social Network -Paul Adams

This presentation offers a great view of your "friends" on social networks

The Real Life Social Network v2

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Me to We - how to score in the social world

A slick slideshow pointing out the value of WE

Me to WE: How to SCORE in a Social World

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Open Social -Trojan Whores?

Open Social hit the net last week and gave google and partners a legup over Facebook in the exploding field of social networking. But the value of the open social networking APIs embodied in Open Social may be nullified by the potential for misuse of open user profiles by OS app developers who could mine the data gathered from OpenSocial profiles for their own purposes without user permission.

Anyone who can provide users a way to prevent application developers from gathering, mining and selling end-user profile, activity and clickstream data without their opt-in permission
could have a killer app.

If you have an hour to waste click on the YouTube video below to view the announcement by google's Vic Gundotra and the first group of OpenSocial Partners.

What's your take on OpenSocial?

Logic+Emotion: Lifestreaming - a way to manage CPA

David Armano really "gets" the flow of social networking. Lifestreaming is his vision of the way to "manage" the dilemma of continuous partial attention (CPA). Lifestreaming Consultants? take a look......


Logic Emotion: Lifestreams

Social Media Design Concepts

Here from David Armanos blog are some great diagrams depicting how to design impactful blog-websites You can watch the whole show, but Slides 40 to 45 are the most important for those interested in social media design.

The importance of the Facebook Platform Explained

Two great articles on the importance of the Facebook Platform

Here from David SacksThe New Portals: It’s the Bread, Not the Peanut Butter

Courtesy of Mark Andreeson blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in

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