remember internet explorer versus netscape browser wars of the mid 90s? myspace is copying facebook and adding applications. so, get ready for the social browser wars – facebook versus myspace!
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is social technology really social?
friending livejournal myspace socialsoftware socialtechnology thesisrhiannon sawyer, a fellow graduate student in sydney, is writing her thesis on friending on myspace. she tells me she has just started conducting interviews with myspace users, and is finding “that everyone has their own definition of friendship on MySpace and that often they don’t actually call it that… Businesses and individuals seem to […]
(there is no hall)
hypercamp thesis web 2.0 web2.0kinda old in internet time, but what the hay: HYPERCAMP: super mega two point oh! (it makes me exhausted just looking at it). kinda an accidental commentary on the blogging/web 2.0/web conference culture eh?
barcamp perth
australia barcamp barcampperth microsoft perth redbullthe first ever barcamp perth is this weekend, and i’m pretty excited. i’ve been totally deprived of web 2.0ness for the past few months. i even signed up to do a talk on introducing web 2.0 to nongeeks. i’m going to draw on my experiences introducing the living platform and openpolitics.ca to non-techies and training […]
howto: hide on facebook
facebook howtothere is a little known feature on facebook that allows you to be invisible to everyone but those you’ve added as a friend. this means that no one can find you in searches as well as network browsing (people looking through other people’s friends lists), wall comments, anything. you are entirely invisible to anyone who […]
the trouble with web 2.0
australia barcamp curtin perth thesis web 2.0 web2.0the other day, i went to a workshop for phd students. no one was sitting there on their laptops half listening while they blogged or looked at web comics. everyone was sitting attentively, making notes on paper, with pens! i told this story to luke last night. i was telling him about how perth has […]
plazes
plazes privacy selfsurveillance thesisplazes: yet another way for self-surveillance mechanism that also incorporates the every addictive element of collection that turns games like world of warcraft into crack. basically, you collect internet access points, and it plots it on a map and you can show your friends and have it automatically update to your msn or skype name. […]
email, msn… facebook?
facebook greg thesisi talked to greg early this morning about jack layton being on facebook. he told me kinda fearfully (or maybe its just me projecting) that he thinks facebook could get so big it just never goes away. like email or msn messenger. he pointed that facebook is moving upwards, age wise, which is usually an […]
the political economy of facebook (or, why we hate facebook but keep using it)
facebook myspace thesis web2.0 worldofwarcraft wowi found an amazing article today on the political economy of facebook, myspace and the other usual suspects written by ryan bigge (former adbusters staffer before kalle lasn went apeshit and turned the mag into an antisemitic brand of shoes). basically, bigge argues that use of social networking sites can actually be seen as unpaid […]
feminism still has work to do
feminism sxswi just got the audience feedback from the panel i was on at sxsw. overall, most of the comments were pretty good. but my jaw dropped when i saw this…two people asked why the panel was all women. another said “don’t invite these soccer moms* again.” wow. somehow i don’t think the numerous all-male panels […]