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Facebook Addiction?

Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, business strategy, facebook, science, social networks, social science, speculation, tagged , , on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is genius.
Kudos to the editor who thought that one up.
I cannot begin to tell you the insight I gained from this.  Can you believe there are people that sit on Facebook all the time? Can you believe people would rather stare at their computer screen and leer at the human zoo that is social [...]

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Need perspective in this time of change?

Posted in facebook, life, social networks, software, tagged , , , , , , , on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Check out what I just put out to the world:

get some perspective with the social bucket list application, need perspective, on facebook.
This is really just a labor of love.  Life’s very short.  I have some 15,000 days left.  I plan to exhaust my bucket list.
Do you?
Perspective: Get some. Give some.

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FB Connect isn’t About Users, It’s About Getting Traffic

Posted in business strategy, social networks, tagged , , , , , on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

All these publishers and platforms aren’t implementing FB Connect to help users, it’s to increase traffic.
Techcrunch asserts:
People may have IDs for the various blogging platforms or commenting systems, but most don’t identify with them. It is a necessary inconvenience. They identify with Facebook or their email because that is where they manage their personal and [...]

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Social Networks and metaphors du jure…

Posted in analysis of behavior, social networks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Edge.com
Douglas Rushkoff
“Social Networks Are Like the Eye”
A Talk with Nicholas Christakis
I read with great interest – as usual – the Edge article by DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: “Social Networks are like the Eye” – A Talk with Nicholas Christakis.

Certainly no shortage of the point and counterpoint logic on anyone’s part. Rushkoff and Alda both working [...]

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Social Networking and Behavioral Targeting Response

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, online advertising, social networks, tagged , , , , , on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I received the following from a director of ad operations, Jeremy Jones, in response to yesterday’s post on collective behavior and the other day’s post on vertical media.  His remarks focus on the confusion over social networking advertising (both selling and buying).  I include the full remark here and an annotated remark below.
[Social networks/social [...]

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Edge.org Social Network Analysis Conversation

Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, health care, information theory, social networks, tagged , , , , , , on March 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis has an interesting piece on Edge.org right now.  He’s also done some cool research on a variety of subjects with social networks as the focus.
Here I present a critique of his dialog on Edge.org.  I eagerly await the actual publication of his Facebook.com-based research papers http://christakis.med.harvard.edu/pages/pubs/pub-sn_ihe.html.  In the meantime I’ve researched [...]

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ABCnews & Facebook Debates: A Rare Convergence in Media That Works!

Posted in politics, vertical media, tagged , , , , , , on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

37,000 participants on Facebook during the live debates last night.
live polling
live blogging
email direct to campaign advisors
immediate reactions
raw videos from the event
videos from the location

The debates were lively and alive.  Interactive and immersive.  Ok, ok, so some of the political banter during the debate itself was the same ol’ schtick but this time we get to tell these campaign managers what we need NOW.
Pretty [...]

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Watch the Watchers – Ask.com and Privacy Policies in the Future

Posted in data mining, privacy, search, social networks, traffic, tagged , , , on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Look, folks, there’s no such thing as privacy. Not on the internet, not in your home, not at work.
As long as you are connected, in any way, to others, you are tracked and counted and watched. It’s not always big brother. it’s not always a mean corporation. Sometimes it’s your friends, [...]

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