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Facebook's dirty data Members Public

Interesting argument that Facebook’s graph search is going to be inherently flawed, because Facebook’s data is dirty [http://stevecheney.posterous.com/graph-searchs-false-promise-and-the-con-of-th] : > It turns out as much as half of the links between objects and interests contained in FB are dirty—i.e. there is no true

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Adam Tinworth
data

#next11 - Socialising Search with Bing Members Public

Can search get more social? Bing's Ralf Herbrich thinks so.

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Adam Tinworth
NEXT11

Ping Isn't a Social Network - and that's just fine Members Public

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 and dismay, I think. People are looking at Ping and

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Adam Tinworth
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Facebook: Opportunity or Threat for Publishers? Members Public

[![Facebook, Inc.](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/05/266px-Facebook.svg_.png?resize=266%2C100)](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook.svg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook.svg)I have spent a lot of time thinking about [Facebook](http://facebook.

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The Online Conversational Onion Members Public

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 much communication services as publishing platforms. You choose exactly who

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Adam Tinworth
blogs

How News Finds Us - The Social Graph Members Public

This is interesting [http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/04/if-the-news-is.html]: 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 Streams

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action streams

What to do about FriendFeed? Members Public

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. I was duplicating something I’d already done. I’d

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Adam Tinworth
action streams

Facebook Owns Your Friendships Members Public

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 to terms of service violating activity. And Facebook is already

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Facebook