The rise of social networking sites makes people put a lot of personal information on the internet. The idea behind this is simple. How more complete and updated your profile is, the more easier you are to find on the web and the more friends you get.
I always found it interesting to see how…
Last week all of the Master students where assigned to start a ‘new’ Wikipedia article, which we all did but with which most of us had a lot of troubles. Most articles where deleted within minutes after creation, others where submitted to be deleted for various reasons. My own article about ‘Richard A. Rogers’, one of our Professors, was also…
Facebook connects people. Not a very new phenomenon, but the amount of people using the social network increases every day and so does the amount of information people show and share with (too many?) others.
The web has become something other than the illusive place where we can get as much information as we want at all times. More than a knowledge database, the Internet has transformed into a place where we can not only extend information, but also extend ourselves.
Social Networking sites have taken a huge jump in user numbers in the past…
Artists and the Ontological Web
“As an artist I find that social networking technology is ontological.” -Andres Manniste on Nettime, March 2008.
As we use the web we construct a portrait of ourselves over time: what sites we return to, what blogs we reference, what photos and videos we post, what cross-alliances we form, what written traces we leave. In…
Photography on Flickr is clearly tied into the overall tradition of vernacular or amateur photography. Where the introduction of the Kodak-Eastman camera in 1888 brought the means to create photographs to a huge segment of the population, the internet gave a huge segment of the population the ability to market…
While thinking about what the future of social networking sites might be, I became curious about what Wired or Forrester think on the topic, what’s the trend?
In this article, Wired acknowledges what has become common sense: people are flocking to social networking sites in record numbers “as Facebook now boasts over 200 million users worldwide, and Twitter…
Social Networking Sites (SNS) are commonly known to just about everyone nowadays or so it seems, who doesn’t at least own a FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Hyves, Ning account or combinations of these and many, many others! But do you know who has access to them? What’s exactly on them? Are you sure their isn’t some hidden fact which you’d rather…
Time to get social online, but why?
Why do we socialize online? Because “human beings are social animals,” Aristotle would say so.