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 As someone who once pursued an academic career, I found it shocking to see how careless these claims where – random ‘opinions’ completely unsupported by any evidence, but yesterday, my faith in the academic field was restored when “28″ (our nickname for Anjali) and I went to see Prof.

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 As someone who once pursued an academic career, I found it shocking to see how careless these claims where – random ‘opinions’ completely unsupported by any evidence, but yesterday, my faith in the academic field was restored when “28″ (our nickname for Anjali) and I went to see Prof.

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. Theres a whole

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,

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Google Friend Connect is now available in beta to any webmaster looking to add a "dash of social" to his or her site. This service lets webmasters add social features to their sites by simply copying and pasting a few snippets of code — no advanced coding or technical background required. ...Tags: Tags: cp2tech02 tools socialweb google web2.0 socialnetworks socialsoftware 200

Now that we are a couple of months into the “signal sharing” of the Communities and Networks Connection , I wanted to share the top posts people have clicked into on the site (courtesy of the magic of Tony Karrer ).  The following are the top posts in March from featured sources based on social signals, with a few annotations from posts that I found useful.  I find that sometimes I am paying attention to the site, and other times it is off my radar. But when I look at the top hit list below, I recognize many of the posts as ones I have read, so for me, personally, there

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

Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use. started making a list of all the social media I use.  So here it is. I

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns. The history approach also shows that while the term “social media” was not in play when I jumped in, the social use of online media has been growing for many I These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are