A few days ago, the WSJ ran an interesting article entitled Thinking about Tomorrow, in which a reporters talked to a number of futurists, etc. about what technology is going to look like ten years from now. I’ve got a quote in there about social technology, which was a nice surprise! I’m not [...]
I spent a few hours last week trying to track down good statistics on SNS adoption for a chapter I was writing. The stats generally break down into one of three categories: 1) Self-reports from social network sites, 2) Localized studies (adoption at campus X) or 3) Population samples (Pew). The Pew Internet [...]
Earlier this week, a student in my class pointed us to this story, describing a security vulnerability in Myspace that allowed private pictures to be viewed by anyone. It’s not the first time Myspace has been exploited in this manner, but it was certainly creepy. A followup story reveals the staggering impact of [...]
I know that many of my readers have tackled large writing projects (books, dissertations, etc.), so I’m hoping you can help me out. As I begin my thesis, I can’t help but look at it as somewhat of a software development project. While the creative process is different, the machinations are similar: I’ll [...]
This semester, I’ll again be teaching my class on Online Social Networks. If you’re interested in checking out the (revised) syllabus, you can download a copy here (pdf).
This semester, I’m looking forward to travel to SF twice. At the end of this month, I’ll be attending Social Graph Foo Camp, and in March [...]
Over the past few months, I’ve found myself increasingly frustrated when I load Facebook. My Newsfeed is a cluttered mess of ads, application spam, and despairingly little real information about my friends. I’ve dutifully clicked the thumbs up/thumbs down icons hundreds of times, giving Facebook a decent preference set, but the problem persists. [...]
Starting a few days ago, Yahoo began intercepting iPhone traffic to Yahoo.com, sending it instead to a Yahoo mobile site. Annoying, and made even worse as Yahoo provides no apparent opt-out – I can’t find a link I can click that will reset my Yahoo.com preferences back to the regular Yahoo homepage.
With a little [...]
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