Posts Tagged ‘ socialnetworking ’

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14
May

OneSocialWeb: a new open “facebook”

Hmm, looks like facebook and diaspora* have some competition.  These guys are using openfire and the XMPP protocol to create a social web that allows you to control your privacy and your data on your own computer instead of relying on a centralized server model like facebook.  The guys are desperately seeking the same kind of recognition as diaspora* has received, and they are much further along.  Go check out their site and get involved if you can help out.  They have even suggested that the diaspora* guys come and spend the summer working with them since the projects are so aligned already.  I’d love to see this kind of coordinated effort bring down facebook!

Original article on techcrunch: OneSocialWeb: We’re Ahead Of Diaspora In The Creation Of An ‘Open Facebook’

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10
Feb

Google’s buzzing, does it matter?

Everyone wants to jump on to the social networking bandwagon and be the defacto place that people go to get their updates. In the US the clear winner is facebook in this category, but everything at this point can talk to everything. Enter Google Buzz. Is there room for yet another social networking hub? Does anyone care?

I’m sure some people may pick it up just for the convenience. The big question in my mind is, what did they do differently? The simple truth of the matter is this; if the answer is nothing, then what is the point? Did they reinvent the way everything connects? No. Did they make such a great user interface that people will be flocking to it? No. Did they make it super easy to send updates out through the social networks they talk to? No.

So what have they done? Well, Yahoo! jumped in this space not long ago with their status updates. As far as I can tell it hasn’t been too widely picked up. Well, if Yahoo! did it, I guess Google needs to do it too! That is never a good reason to jump in to a space.

With only a handful of social networking connections available to Buzz right now, I don’t think this service is going to amount to much for a long while. Useful? debatable. Interesting? Definitely. In the long run, you have to ask yourself what is googles angle? I guess in the grand scheme of things only 10% of your ideas ever amount to anything when innovating. You have to throw things out there and see what sticks.

I have read a number of posts on twitter speculating the success of Buzz versus Wave. Wave I think is a clear winner, I think they released it to the general public too soon. Buzz….well…let me be the first to say it….It’s all in the name…..

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27
Jan

Twitter, firefox, and back surgery

As you may have noticed, I have started using twitter. I am doing this in the hopes that I will keep up an online presence a little better, especially if more people are paying attention to it. Right now it is sending nightly updates, but I may turn that down after a bit. Depends on how redundant it all becomes.

I recently (2 weeks ago) had back surgery, and am recovering nicely. During this recovery time I decided to get caught up in the latest web 2.0 tools that are out there, so I joined twitter, Del.icio.us, and a few other sites. You will start seeing some of that information showing up here, and hopefully I will start writing more about some of the interesting things I am messing with.

One of the things I have done is I have installed a number of useful plugins to firefox which allow me to have more access to these tools. I’ll write up some more of that soon, its been a whirlwind of fun trying these things out.