Recent Posts Tagged With 'social networking'

• Social Networks, Open Source and Risk Assessment

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 02:04 in social networking

  Does The Ownership Of Social Networks Really Matter? In my most recent post entitled “Facebook Buys FriendFeed; Identica is Open Source; Does It Matter?” I asked “But how relevant is this dogma?” in response to the apparent s...

• Facebook Buys FriendFeed; Identica is Open Source; Does It Matter?

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 03:30 in social networking, openness

  As described on TechCrunch a couple of days ago, Facebook Acquires FriendFeed. The Monkey Bites blog advises “Let’s Be Friends in its article on how Facebook acquired FriendFeed. But the reaction in the Twitterverse seems to be negative, with...

• “Wanna chat with me on cam?”

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 02:30 in social networking

  Last year we set up a Ning social network to support the IWMW 2008 event. Afterwards I forgot about the network until a few days ago I was alerted that a number of members had received spam messages. And on checking I discovered that Lucile Sawyer wa...

• Further Developments of a Risks and Opportunities Framework

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 02:24 in social networking, facebook, twitter

  I have previously described a risks and opportunities framework which I will be presenting shortly at the Museums and the Web 2009 conference. At the Archives 2.0: Shifting Dialogues between Users and Archivists conference I described a slightly upda...

• Remember Orkut?

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 02:56 in social networking, orkut

  In a post on Salesman, Salesman… Why don’t you sell me something…Wendell Dryden described problems he’d encountered using the Multiply.com service from within Facebook. Wendell has still not found the ideal  solution: “...

• Social Networks Can Be Just For Christmas

  Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 02:03 in social networking, iwmw2008

  Due to one of the speaker’s not being able to attend, we had to find, at the last moment, a couple of speakers to take part in the opening session at IWMW 2008. I was pleased that Claire Gibbons, University of Bradford and Mike Ellis, Eduserv,...

• Institutional Use of Ning

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 03:00 in social networking, ning

  A post by Lorcan Dempsey cited Tony’s Hirst’s comments on use of the Ning social network at the University of Wales, Newport and the University of Bradford. Michael Webb, Head of IT and Media Services at the University of Wales, Newport w...