Archive for March 4th, 2008

keeping a user’s personal data footprint small

Posted on March 4, 2008. Filed under: C Li, N O'Neill, asymmetric cryptography, avatar, cryptography, e-mail address, handle for a user, lost-password recovery, personal data footprint, social network, social network platform, 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, 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: 43 Things, Couchsurfing.com, LastFM, Ning, Xing, buddy list, collecting peers, contact list, contact list management, fundamental social graph, social graph, social network, social platform, user account management, users' advantage |

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 — [...]

Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )

Liked it here?
Why not try sites on the blogroll...