Tag: Social Networking
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How is Facebook worth so much when…
it is so tied to having to login? Well, likely to view ads… But really – for most of the people that I know, facebook it really just the container for scrabble and all the social networking that drew them in so many months ago is what you do while waiting for your turn to…
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Wikia Update
Thanks to Andy Carvin for clarifying the Wikia situation – it is indeed a plugin for MediaWiki. It allows users to communicate with each other and post profile information.
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MediaWiki + Social Networks = Wikia
It looks like the commercial team behind MediaWiki is adding some elements of Social Networking to their product to create Wikia. It is a hosted solution (what’s with the developments for hosted wikis this weekend?) so I don’t know how easy it will be for plugins to go to MediaWiki and a quick Google search…
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Social Networking Effects
Leave it to Freakonomics to find these people and have them look into some of the effects of Social Networking. Stephan asked: Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? Of Martin Baily, Danah Boyd, Steve Chazin,…
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Second Brain as a PLE
One of the things that web2.0 has left us with is more places to dump everything that we make or find. There are a number of services that have started up to help mitigate this. Social Networking sites seem to be the high flyers here, but what about the great host of other aggregators out…