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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

That’s kind of obvious, you’d think… But what is striking about what these two researcher have found is that the strongest influence might not come from your friends, but from friends of friends. Looking at obesity, for instance, Christakis and Fowler claims that a Framingham resident is nearly 20% more likely to put on weight if a friend of a friend does, even if the connecting friends weight remains the same. Stumbled on on this very interesting article titled “ Is Happiness catching? ” 8221; in The New York Times published

That’s kind of obvious, you’d think… But what is striking about what these two researcher have found is that the strongest influence might not come from your friends, but from friends of friends. Looking at obesity, for instance, Christakis and Fowler claims that a Framingham resident is nearly 20% more likely to put on weight if a friend of a friend does, even if the connecting friends weight remains the same. How people affect and influence each other via networks is a very popular topic these days. Stumbled on on this very interesting

I've been talking about the document a lot recently, and I want to just explore in a little more detail the thinking behind the advice given to school employees regarding friending students in social networking services. The actual text is (with my emphasis): ‘Friending’ refers to the act of giving contacts permission to view information or contact you within web-based services. Earlier this year I delivered a further cyberbullying guidance document on behalf of Childnet International for the UK Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families . The Guidance follow

A few posts ago , we wrote about personal and organizational “friending” policies on social networks like Facebook. (cross-posted on jlearn2.0 ). Many thanks to Shayna Kreisler, BBYO’s Director, Education and Teen Initiatives, and her colleagues for their willingness to share their organization’s social networking policy. BBYO is a provider of identity-building and leadership development programs for Jewish teens with over 80

New from HP's Social Computing Lab comes news of Friendlee, an entirely new kind of social network that focuses on the intimate connections between close friends, family, and colleagues. The application, designed to operate on your mobile phone, tracks your call and messaging history to provide an ambient awareness of who your "real" friends are and then adds those people to your social network. Not only that, but Friendlee also tracks the businesses you call frequently to identify your preferred services which can then be used as recommendations to your network of friends.

The campaign was using the power of the social tie/link -- friends talking to friends about voting. The Obama campaign is also following a grass-roots, bottom-up, friends-talking-to-friends strategy as described in the current issue Rolling Stone magazine . Will Hillary borrow the local social networks of her friend and supporter, Pennsylvania's governor Ed Rendell? A while back I blogged about the social network strategy of the Huckabee campaign and how it was accomplishing a lot with very little (money). Good strategy, limited population.

You might like to see how it aggregates accounts of friends for example, merging the friend element of some social networks with the stranger element of online communities. Technorati Tags: friend , peoplebrowsr , search bio , search profile , stranger , twellow , Twitter ...Tags: Tags: social media twellow social networks Twitter search bio peoplebrowsr stranger Search Ever wondered how to search the Bio fields for someone in Twitter? How to search Twitter profiles?

have friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter. But actually there are some fundamental differences between ‘friend’ and ‘follow’, and the two concepts signal very different types of site and user experience. To ‘friend’ is a two-way process; it requires both parties to agree that they want to connect with each other. Image by WolfS?ul ul via Flickr