a blog about information
When I look at the digital implementations of social networks of today, they appear to have a core made up of five things: a directory or address book the ability to group people in the directory support for different modes of communication between people the ability to schedule meetings between the people a way of … Continue reading “Monday morning musing about social networks”
I have some friends who talk to me exclusively through Facebook. My phone and my e-mail are displayed there for my friends. But most of the time, they talk to me through Facebook. Currently, the number of Facebook friends is somewhere in the 700s. They cover my family, my school, my university, my church, my … Continue reading “thinking about connections”
I like Twitter, particularly because of its publish-subscribe nature. A few weeks ago, I described Twitter as: a newspaper. a bulletin board. a club. an “adda”. a telephone network. Twitter is all these things. It brings me the news. It is a place where people publish notices. It’s a place where I meet my friends, … Continue reading “Thinking about Twitter: a submarine in the ocean of the Web”
Take a look at this study in the latest First Monday, on Twitter Under the Microscope. What it does is associate each Twitter user with three types of people: “followers” (people who “follow” the person), “followees” (people followed by the person, the declared friends) and “friends” (people who have received at least two @ messages … Continue reading “Of followers and followees and friends”
My thanks to those of you who commented, tweeted or wrote to me about my post on the customer perspective yesterday. Some of the questions raised were such that I felt a follow-up post was of value, so here goes. I’ve tried to structure it as a small number of points that clarify and simplify … Continue reading “Musing about the customer perspective: Part 2”