Tag: socialnetworks

Ambient Intimacy

Ambient Intimacy is a term to describe that sense of connectedness that you get from participating in social tools online that allow you to feel as though you are maintaining and, perhaps in fact, increasing your closeness with people in your social network through the messages and content that you share online – be it photographs or text or information about upcoming travel.

all this social grooming may help us to raise dunbars number. and once we do, expect huge payoffs as previously zero-sum games become win-win. (for background, read nonzero by robert wright.)

Facebook Platform

Metaphorically, Facebook is providing the ease and user attraction of MySpace-style embedding, coupled with the kind of integration you see with Firefox extensions, with the added rocket fuel of automated viral distribution to a huge number of potential users, and the prospect of keeping 100% of any revenue your application can generate.

facebook makes the sharecropper life so convenient

Facebook App Anatomy

Below you will see all these various components as they are applied to our own Photos Application. It should be noted that none of these pages are mandatory but the more you include in your application the richer the experience becomes (for example, no one’s going to install your app called “Lefty” that is only a left nav link)

kudos for allowing such deep integration.

Dead Networking

the social networking website’s administration decided that these students’ profiles will not be taken down; instead, they will be remain frozen in their last updated state. This decision goes against Facebook’s policy of removing profiles of the recently deceased out of respect for their privacy, but this is not a new phenomenon. There is simply no way for these websites to keep track of which of their users are dead or alive – the dead are all online now; they “live” on websites like Livejournal, Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, or Flickr, and they’re not going anywhere.

throw in a OMG LOL comment script, and appearances can be maintained indefinitely

China MySpace

The front page shows 3 mainland Chinese users and 3 international users, and they can all friend each other. How do they choose who gets on the page as international users? Unclear. But Tom is every Chinese MySpace user’s first friend, as usual. Seems like there might not be that many Chinese users…or maybe not that many writing in English. Unclear.

now we only need instant translations and the fun begins for real

China Internet Culture

Chinese users have lower standards for their glamor shot — blurry and what i called candid webcam shots are in.

heh
2009-03-03:

This view challenges the dominant paradigm we use to understand the Chinese internet, the Great Firewall. Rebecca argues that this makes it harder to understand cybertarianism. We’re tempted to assume that if we just lift the Firewall, China will be free… and that’s an extremely naive view. The GFW only pertains to servers hosted outside of China. For sites hosted within China, the Net Nanny is a much better metaphor for understanding content control.

it is not as straightforward as “the great firewall”