Category Archives for Social
★ Google Reader Taking A Step Backwards — I’ll Go Read Somewhere Else For Now
Marco Arment commenting on Google’s Reader redesign: Google’s leadership seems to be paranoid about its continued relevance if it doesn’t make it big in social networking. But they’re showing that they’re willing to harm their other products to boost their … Continue reading
→ Future of Facebook survey results
Privacy remains the top of mind issue for Facebook users and threat to Facebook as a company, while common improvement requests revolve around data portability / opening the walled garden. No big shockers but this kind of survey data is … Continue reading
→ The social networks of yesteryear: How the mighty have fallen
A couple of charts showing the rise and fall of MySpace and Friendster, and the slow decline of LiveJournal, from Royal Pingdom. The funny thing is, until the day they plateaued, they must all have felt like Facebook feels today … Continue reading
→ The Language of Social Networks
Yee on Framethink: Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg have established near monopoly control over the language that we use to talk about social networks. Without any trademarking, they have associated a lot of social activities with being on Facebook — and … Continue reading
→ Why Facebook’s new Open Graph makes us all part of the web underclass
Adrian Short for the Guardian has a lengthy post explaining why social networks are slowly but surely eroding the open web. Because the audience is there, because the conversation happens on those closed platforms The things you can say and … Continue reading