Archive for March 4th, 2008
keeping a user’s personal data footprint small
Posted on March 4, 2008. Filed under: digital privacy, social web, user accounts management | Tags: asymmetric cryptography, avatar, C Li, cryptography, e-mail address, handle for a user, lost-password recovery, N O'Neill, personal data footprint, social network, social network platform, user account management, username |
Adding up onto my bare-bone social network post, reading Nick O’Neil’s blog, I found Charlene Li discussing four primary components of social networks. My own post focused on profiles and relationships (contact list) only: I declared the user name (“nick name”) to be the only necessary piece of data a user needs to have in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )two ideas on how to monetize blogging
Posted on March 4, 2008. Filed under: blogging, economy, social web | Tags: making money, monetize blogging, social platform |
The headline alone, “Social blog: turning a blog into a decentralised social network” of a talk given at BlogTalk 2008, caused me to get the clue/ide/impression/question of whether there might be a way to monetize a blog any other way but by wallpapering it with ads or post influenced by some favours one might get [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What is a bare-bone social network?
Posted on March 4, 2008. Filed under: social web, user accounts management | Tags: 43 Things, buddy list, collecting peers, contact list, contact list management, Couchsurfing.com, fundamental social graph, LastFM, Ning, social graph, social network, social platform, users' advantage, Xing |
So, what does a social network, gnawned off all flesh, look like? What’s the bare-boned of all bare-bone social network functionality?
As I am thinking through a social networking platform-to-be, I have to weigh between tools users need to gain a benefit of participating in the net — i.e. their reason to participate at all — [...]