Feb 25, 09 About Stuff Shelter Cities Community Business Politics Planet The Value of Connections Jon Lebkowsky October 30, 2007 1:32 PM Ive been struggling with social networks and social network platforms: I have a lot of thoughts about them, all clamoring for attention in my head, and Im to create neat square boxes for my thoughts, the way consultants do when they create those neat clearly-articulated lists that are supposed to show off their expertise. Social network sites encourage

Time has moved on since and Facebook has launched Facebook Connect which allows you to integrate Facebook into your own sites allowing authentication, registration, friend connecting, and Facebook feed posting in the context of your application. Mashable has a great post on 10 great implementations of Facebook Connect including Joost , Vimeo and Disqus . Back in June 2007 I wrote a popular tutorial on writing Facebook platform applications with Ruby On Rails . At Made By Many we are fans of the possibilites of Facebook Connect for lowering barriers of registration,

John Cacioppo’s presentation “Connected Minds: Loneliness, Social Brains and the Need for Community” , hosted by the RSA . “An It means having a different sensitivity to a need for human connection . If you have a high need for interaction and connection with other people, you will end up feeling lonely if that need is not met, while another person might feel perfectly happy with less contact than you do. Some time back, I wrote a very frustrated post on how experts from the field of psychology make sweeping generalizations of what it means to use online services like twitter, facebook and other social networking sites.

John Cacioppo’s presentation “Connected Minds: Loneliness, Social Brains and the Need for Community” , hosted by the RSA . “An It means having a different sensitivity to a need for human connection . If you have a high need for interaction and connection with other people, you will end up feeling lonely if that need is not met, while another person might feel perfectly happy with less contact than you do. Some time back, I wrote a very frustrated post on how experts from the field of psychology make sweeping generalizations of what it means to use online services like twitter, facebook and other social networking sites.

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Alacrity stresses promptness in response to a suggestion or command, cheerful and eager willingness, appropriate quickness, and in general the beginning of fast movement. « Google Suggest Dissected | Main | Voluntary Health Associations & Social Software » Dunbar Triage: Too Many Connections As someone who now has over 171 professional "connections" in my LinkedIn Profile , 198 "friends" on Orkut , many more non-intersecting friends and acquaintances on Tribe.Net , LiveJournal , and other social networking services , as well as a plethora

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. have left this blog post on my blog, simply because I should. Disclaimer: I’m not part of product management, development, or marketing (I am well connected to those groovy folks, though, who have approved this message). I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .

Connected Search Archives IBM Lotus Connections, in plain English Edit: I used to be the IBM Lotus Connections Technical Evangelist. have left this blog post on my blog, simply because I should. Disclaimer: I’m not part of product management, development, or marketing (I am well connected to those groovy folks, though, who have approved this message). I am now the Social Enterprise Evangelist at Jive Software .