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A Review of: Taken Out of Context

A Review of: Taken Out of Context

She’s being called the rockstar of social network sites and has done some extensive research on the subject. The American academic Danah Boyd has now completed her PhD dissertation, “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics”,...
By Jelle Kamsma on 09/14/09 1

Twitter used to be my Boyfriend

There is so much going on, on Twitter that it is hard to cover it all after using it for a year. Really, nobody knows the future of Twitter. Even the people who created it have no idea where...
By Hannah Biemold on 09/12/09 1

Children and Hyves

The most popular social networking website in the Netherlands is Hyves. It’s similar to Facebook or MySpace, but far more used in Holland: since it’s founding in 2004, the number of users has grown explosively and today Hyves has...
By Desiree de Jong on 09/10/09 Comments Off on Children and Hyves

Possibilities and threats for popstars in Web 2.0

Popstars have an economic function, like filmstars. They promise a performance. They are the profit makers of the entertainment industries. From an ideological point of view, popstars maintain a myth of meritocracy. The industries and the stars themselves want...
By Arno de Natris on 09/02/09 1
Pifworld: an Engaging Graphical Donating Platform

Pifworld: an Engaging Graphical Donating Platform

A friend of mine informed me about an interesting service that was recently launched: Pifworld. It is basically a Google Earth/SNS – mash-up that facilitates global crowd funding. It allows individuals and communities to support specific projects in a fun...
By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 04/25/09 Comments Off on Pifworld: an Engaging Graphical Donating Platform

CBS: 29.000 Predators on MySpace

The Internet gives the citizen possibilities for surveillance. Citizens use these possibilities when they think vertical surveillance fails. Especially children are put into discourses of surveillance as if they are members of a vulnerable group, not watched over by...
By Arno de Natris on 04/16/09 3

Follow and Connect on Twitter

On a lot of social network sites a friend has to be approved and this only works if both users add each other. This also means that one of the two can break up and the other one loses...
By Hannah Biemold on 02/20/09 3

The digital Grim Reaper

Isn’t it remarkable that a profile on a social network site is almost always linked to a person that exists in real life? Most profiles are related to someone, some group or something that is palpable. Of course, some...
By Arno de Natris on 12/18/08 3
Convergence of Social Networks and Games

Convergence of Social Networks and Games

A PICNIC Special this year was called ‘Games go Social’ which was about the future of gaming and social networks. An upcoming trend as both industries are evolving is that both can learn a lot from each other and...
By Pieter-Paul Walraven on 12/07/08 1
Facebook Connect Vs. OpenID: The Format War for Your Identity

Facebook Connect Vs. OpenID: The Format War for Your Identity

Facebook Connect vs. OpenIDIt seems now that it may be Facebook Connect, and not OpenID, that will lead the data portability movement. Do we trust our online...
By Chris Castiglione on 12/06/08 4

Twitter as Discourse

On a first encounter with twitter, one may understandably think: ‘what are these twittering twats tweeting about!’ The twats bother each other constantly with utterances too short to be meaningful. A common reply is: Just try it for yourself!...
By Guido van Diepen on 10/17/08 Comments Off on Twitter as Discourse

Huffington Post

After more and more frequently visiting the website the Huffington post I’ve been wondering if this website is a social networking site (SNS), as multiple people blog here and are connected, or is this site just a news and...
By Hannah Biemold on 10/14/08 Comments Off on Huffington Post

Fakebooks

Every social network service has its own parodies, the more successful it is, the more it has. I will take facebook as an example for applications and actions that play around with SNS. Facebook is surrounded by at least...
By marie-anne soyez on 10/13/08 Comments Off on Fakebooks

Twitter’s Implications: Is Less Really More?

It’s around us everywhere. Increasingly, the trend of creating single-phrase sentences – or aphorisms – is taking over the way we write and read, on line and offline. It almost seems as though there is no more room for...
By Annewil Neervens on 10/12/08 1

Facebook for Fun

Facebook is the second largest social network after Myspace.com in U.S. with around 60 million members. But it is the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today and taking into account its great expansion overseas it...
By Maria Perevalova on 10/11/08 Comments Off on Facebook for Fun

Twitter World

Twitter.com twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based...
By Ali Balunywa on 10/11/08 Comments Off on Twitter World
Xbox Live as a social network site?

Xbox Live as a social network site?

While my own Xbox 360 is still being repaired, a hapless victim of the dreaded ‘Red Ring of Death’, gamers everywhere are using the console’s social network programme called Xbox Live. Rightly so, I might add. Microsoft’s Xbox was...
By Stefan Keerssemeeckers on 10/08/08 2
Stalking Myself (and How to Opt-out of the Facebook News Feed)

Stalking Myself (and How to Opt-out of the Facebook News Feed)

A few weeks ago I created a Facebook pseudonym in order to follow the News Feed of the real “Chris Castiglione”. Too often I hear stories from friends who hadn’t realized that by default Facebook broadcasts almost every update...
By Chris Castiglione on 10/07/08 8
An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’

An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’

An easy to use web-based application incorporated in the social network site Tagged is described in this article. The "Meet Me" service allows users to find and meet others in a very easy way, and is a nice example...
By Kai Henriquez on 10/06/08 3

Social Networking Sites: What Added Value Lies in the Connections?

In having different social networking sites, connections are also different. This might seem obvious, but how do these connections differ and what does that mean? In their paper ‘Public Displays of Connection’, MIT Media Lab professor Judith Donath and academic...
By Annewil Neervens on 10/05/08 1

‘Hi5’: Among Social Network Sites

Every person on this planet needs a friend. But it seems that some people are more interested in social network sites than others. In South Korea for example the percent of adults that visit these ‘friend sites’ is overwhelming....
By Cornelia Scripca on 10/05/08 Comments Off on ‘Hi5’: Among Social Network Sites
‘Hyves’ and ‘LinkedIn’. My Schizo-life

‘Hyves’ and ‘LinkedIn’. My Schizo-life

When people look at my profile on Hyves and LinkedIn they will find only one thing in common: my picture. There is a clear cut line between these two worlds, they are actually existing on two different physical locations...
By saskia korsten on 10/05/08 3
Reassembling Social Networks

Reassembling Social Networks

Currently the massive public adoption of social software has changed our habitat and has created shifts in our behaviour. While we know how to behave in unmediated publics (for example we know what is expected from us when we...
By Inge Ploum on 10/05/08 1