Bookmarks

• Andreas L: 35 Great Social Media Infographics | pamoramaMarch 9, 2010
  a collection of social media infographics
• Andreas L: Karrie Karahalios – Text and Tie StrengthMarch 9, 2010
  They sampled 3000 MySpace users and segmented them into rural and urban groups, and studied their posts and interpersonal messages. They discovered quickly that rural people logged on more often than urban users, and they set out to test five hypotheses:<br /> <br /> The rural population will have:<br /> h1 – fewer friends and comments<br /> h2 – more women<br /> h3 – more private profiles<br /> h4 – closer (geographically) friends<br /> h5 – preference for strong over weak ties<br /> <br /> They were able to find strong evidence for hypotheses 1-4, and especially saw evidence that women were the keepers of privacy within networks. But they couldn’t prove or disprove h5, because it’s not clear how to characterize strong or weak ties.
• Andreas L: Gmail Gets a Slick Social CRM Tool. You’re Going to Like This.March 5, 2010
  Rapportive a new browser plugin, not unlike Xobni for Outlook, that adds dynamic contact previews to Gmail complete with profile picture, brief bio and links to their various social networking profiles. Part social, part CRM, Rapportive also features a minimalist notes area directly under the social profiles section of the sidebar.
• Martin: The Future of the Internet IV | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life ProjectFebruary 19, 2010
  A survey of nearly 900 Internet stakeholders reveals fascinating new perspectives on the way the Internet is affecting human intelligence and the ways that information is being shared and rendered.
• Martin: Social Networking for Business : a collaboration engineering guide in the 2.0 era | Bertrand Duperrin's NotepadFebruary 19, 2010
  A first sight, social networks are very easy : people, interactions, relationships, a hudge potential of value and, at the end, incredible and unexpected results. Unfortunately, for many reasons I won’t list here, what happens on the web does not happen within organizations in the same way.
• Andreas L: social objects for beginners | gapingvoidFebruary 12, 2010
  The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else. Human beings are social animals. We like to socialize. But if think about it, there needs to be a reason for it to happen in the first place. That reason, that “node” in the social network, is what we call the Social Object.
• Andreas L: Five User Experience Trends I'll be Watching in 2010 / nForm / BlogFebruary 10, 2010
  Predictions. They're invariably wrong, but we still love to make them. Five trends that may shape the web in the coming year.
• Andreas L: Dan Lewis James: Social network design principlesFebruary 8, 2010
  It seems to boil down to personality and creating community cohesion. Which is much more of a human endeavour rather than a design or development one. Hunch displays a very human centered approach to it’s design, utilising well known human behaviour patterns and deploying them throughout the network as interactive features, combined with a genuine set of beliefs and values it’s the current benchmark for successful networks.