The real excitement will begin when academic technologists devise ways to seamlessly interconnect these “scholarly social networks” with one another, as well as with key resources like the growing number of open access repositories at major universi
Dave Winer points on the fact that "Facebook has a better advertising story than Google does (...) Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information."
The beauty of Facebook, as opposed to Myspace and other social networks is that the people on there are for the most part who they say they are, and Facebook does their best to dismiss those who aren't. This simple differentiation makes the membership b
Trois visions du web donc :Des réseaux privés, sortes degated communities: c’est FaceBook s’il résiste à la démarche Open Social API.Une API ouverte, pas degated communities, le web reste la plateforme : c’est Google. Bien sûr, l’API n’a
I also asked him about OpenSocial. He confirmed that Google hadnot reached outto Facebook: “I didn’t get the e-mail.” And when I suggested that it might be in Facebook’s interest tojoin OpenSocialat some point, he didn’t disagree. “Nobod
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more socialapplications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.OpenSocial provides