Will there ever be enough intelligence for intuitive social network profiles?

Posted over 3 years ago by Ed Charvet
22/08/2007

I heard from Yahoo in Europe recently about their vision of communities forming, living and the dying naturally at the end of their useful life.  Image a universe of star clustering and diverging continually all over the place, each time prompted for a slightly different reason and each time never quite the same combinations.  Obviously it is the profile that stands as the barrier to this and the Wikinomics blog so eloquently put it the "facebook fatigue" attached to moving salient information around.  Could there ever be a widget intelligent enough to allow people to participate in such groups without...

If the CIA think it's a good idea...

Posted over 3 years ago by Jon Mell
22/08/2007

I always find it interesting to see stories of companies banning Facebook.  It reminds me of when only a few years ago a friend of mine who works in academia genuinely asked if moible phones were allowed in the workplace or whether they were seen as a distraction.  Soon social networking tools will be seen as essential communication devices on a par with email and we will struggle with the idea of an organisation looking to ban their use. Anyway - if there is one organisation which may have a legitimate interest in prohibiting access you would think it would be the...

Social Networking Grows up

Posted over 3 years ago by Caspar
20/08/2007

Great article in Business Week on how social networking is no longer for the kids pointing with an influx of older users-professionals their 30s and 40s, many in high-tech-is changing the face of Facebook.Some of the examples are Ernst & Young having a Facebook network with 16,000 members, Citigroup's having nearly 8,500 members.The article estimates that the "35-and-up" crowd now accounts for more than 41% of all Facebook visitors.  Well thats all great, but where is the value...isnt this all just for play?Not so, according to Business Week who point to a number of areas where VALUE exists around these social networks:1) Advertising - the obvious one...