Interesting argument that Facebook’s graph search is going to be inherently flawed, because Facebook’s data is dirty: It turns out as much as half of the links between objects and interests contained in FB are dirty—i.e.…
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#next11 - Socialising Search with Bing
Ralf Herbrich of Bing, which we all know as the other search engine, is up and talking about making search more social. This is something that Google are starting to play with, but which is not seen as their forte.…
Ping Isn't a Social Network - and that's just fine
I’m coming to the conclusion that there’s an awful lot of nonsense being talked about Ping, the new social tool in iTunes. Please note: “social tool in iTunes” not “social network”. That’s the root of the confusion…
Facebook: Opportunity or Threat for Publishers?
[](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook.svg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook.svg) I have…
The Online Conversational Onion
1. The Closed Space Closed spaces are where your conversations are as private as you want them to be. Dominated the by the social networks (Facebook, Bebo, MySpace) as well as the network-focused blog platforms (Vox, Livejournal), they are as…
How News Finds Us - The Social Graph
This is interesting: It’s a nice visual summary both of what this social graph business is all about, where it’s going and the desire for people to have a “hub” for it. I’m hoping that the [Action…
What to do about FriendFeed?
So, like the good wee social media sheep that I am, I just [signed up for FriendFeed](http://friendfeed.com/adders). And I started entering all my social media sites. And then I realised that this all seemed very familiar.…
Facebook Owns Your Friendships
But the problem is that they’re my relationships, not Facebook’s. The social network is merely the tool I’ve used to define them. It’s my data and I should be able to get it back, without resorting…