Facebook will destroy your children’s brains | by Martin Robbins @mjrobbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
A pitch-perfect parody of people that peeve.
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Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
A well-argued piece by Malcolm Gladwell on the relative pros and cons of weak-tie networks and strong-tie hierarchies ...although, as always, Gladwell relies on anecdotes more than data to make his point.
Ident Engine
Glenn has taken Google's Social Graph API, YQL and various parsers, and he's wrapped it all up in one JavaScript library. The demos are mind-boggingly impressive.
Social Networks Aren't Good Businesses - washingtonpost.com
An interesting take on the business models of social networking sites.
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
danah boyd addresses the Microsoft Research Tech Fest.
YouTube - Newsnight Goldacre Sigman BBC2 20090224
Behold the double awesomeness of Jeremy Paxman and Ben Goldacre! Susan Greenfield, alas, is simply embarrassing.
Experiments in Data Portability - Screencast
Glenn has created a screencast of his superb Skillswap presentation, syncing up the audio with the slides.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Online time 'is good for teens'
Mimi Ito talks to the BBC about the findings of a report into teens geeking out online.
Spokeo? More like Spooky-o; bad practice taken to the extreme. at Aral Balkan
Aral points to what is possibly the most egregious password anti-pattern implementation yet: a new startup called Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com/public/join
Google Code Blog: URLs are People, Too
This is great news! Brad Fitzpatrick and Kevin Marks have built a new Google API that will spider XFN links.
Waxy.org: Daily Log: The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites
Andy Baio does a nice bit of investigative journalism in exposing the social network spammer hired by The Times. The internet treats crass marketing as damage and routes around it.
If all your friends jumped off of a bridge… at Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar
Ben Brown outlines the reasons why he left Facebook: "I think it is important to note that Facebook, though they claim to be a tool for staying connected, is actually a software tool designed *primarily* to deliver marketing messages to its audience."
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity
Chris says that URLs are people too: "You’ve got my URL, now, tell me, what else do you really need?"
Preoccupations: Adactio hits St Paul's
David follows up on my talk at St Paul's with cornucopia of thoughts and links that's more in-depth than the talk itself.
Giant Global Graph | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
TIm Berners-Lee explains what the "graph" part of "social graph" means. I'm still not keen on the term but I really love the idea (although I also disagree about the building blocks required today).
The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times
An article about Twitter focusing on one threatened suicide and one averted break-up. Leisa and her excellent phrase "ambient intimacy" are quoted.
Six Apart - News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph
Six Apart are getting ready to make portable social networks a reality. Watch this space for code.
Open Social Graph @ Plaxo
Try Plaxo's identity consolidator for yourself. Give it a URL that includes rel="me".
Dopplr Blog » Importing your social network from other sites
Portable social networks are no longer just theory: Dopplr makes it a reality.