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Online and Offline Social Networks Evolving/Defriending

Continuing on Kimberley’s post on social network defriending, I’d like to stress some other points relating to social network defriending and its possible context. The Dunbar Number Research by Sociologist Robert Dunbar shows that, at a random moment in...
By Maarten Hoogvliet on 09/30/09 Comments Off on Online and Offline Social Networks Evolving/Defriending

Online Conversations & Social Networks

When Facebook bought FriendFeed to take on Twitter, there was a lot of discussion whether or not Facebook could provide the end users with enough added value to ‘make the switch.’ Personally I found that question to be irrelevant....
By Joery Bruijntjes on 09/30/09 Comments Off on Online Conversations & Social Networks

Facebook vs Ning – what is “social”?

A social network is, according to Wikipedia, a social structure made of individuals or organizations, which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency (friendship, kinship, financial exchange, sexual relationships, and relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige)....
By Jan Bajec on 09/29/09 Comments Off on Facebook vs Ning – what is “social”?
Pecking in the Picnic #2

Pecking in the Picnic #2

There were a lot of interactive experiences during the PICNIC, the virtual sightseeing scenic viewer by Ydreams was one of them. Even though this unit at a first look resembles like a kiosk, when you start swinging its screen...
By Margarida Fonseca on 09/29/09 Comments Off on Pecking in the Picnic #2

How to permanently erase your Facebook account

As one of unique experiences of cyberspace and virtual environments is this feeling that you have been transported “from an ordinary into a pure imaginary space”. Real time interaction enforces this feeling by making irrelevant notions such as distance....
By Radmila Radojevic on 09/29/09 Comments Off on How to permanently erase your Facebook account

How much do I know about you?

This is the sequel of an experiment I started last week. I was curious how can you use Facebook quizzes for research and marketing purposes. My self made Facebook Quiz has not become very successful. After about a week...
By Marta Colpani on 09/29/09 Comments Off on How much do I know about you?

Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?

Early in 2007, something strange happened: Wikipedia's growth line flattened. People suddenly became reluctant to create new articles or fix errors or add their kernels of wisdom to existing pages...
By Sisi Yu on 09/28/09 Comments Off on Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?

PICNIC Interior Design

I know many blog posts about the PICNIC conference from this weekend have been floating around the web the past few days. Most of them discussing the topics covered by the speakers and the future of new media. I...
By Sarah Moore on 09/28/09 Comments Off on PICNIC Interior Design

Social Networking Sites: Safety First

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...
By Charlotte van Brakel on 09/28/09 Comments Off on Social Networking Sites: Safety First

My Wikipedia-page revisited…

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...
By Sander Leegwater on 09/28/09 7

Facebook, Connecting and Controlling People

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.
By ellen sluis on 09/28/09 Comments Off on Facebook, Connecting and Controlling People

From Metaphysics to Metadata
Jorge Luis Borges, tagging, and social networks

In his short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbius Tertius the argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges imagined a place with a completely different perception of reality than ours. In Tlön "the prime unit is not the verb, but the monosyllabic...
By Nicola Bozzi on 09/28/09 Comments Off on From Metaphysics to Metadata
Jorge Luis Borges, tagging, and social networks

The Construction of an Online (Facebook) Identity

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...
By Charlotte Hendriks on 09/28/09 Comments Off on The Construction of an Online (Facebook) Identity
How Can Artists Use Social Networks?

How Can Artists Use Social Networks?

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,...
By Morgan Currie on 09/28/09 3
Does the Flickr ‘style’ manifest a longing for a non-technological authenticity?

Does the Flickr ‘style’ manifest a longing for a non-technological authenticity?

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...
By Allison Guy on 09/28/09 Comments Off on Does the Flickr ‘style’ manifest a longing for a non-technological authenticity?
From social networking sites to social experiences

From social networking sites to social experiences

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...
By Margarida Fonseca on 09/28/09 1
Time to get social online, but why?

Time to get social online, but why?

Why do we socialize online? Because “human beings are social animals,” Aristotle would say so.
By Yu-Fen Chen on 09/28/09 Comments Off on Time to get social online, but why?

Social Networking Sites (SNS); are we helping in the shrinking of our own privacy?

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...
By Sander Leegwater on 09/28/09 Comments Off on Social Networking Sites (SNS); are we helping in the shrinking of our own privacy?

Twitter and its networking (in)capabilities

Nowadays, many of the popular social network sites are advanced platforms that more or less evolved from simple community platforms or fora. Where Myspace, Friendster and The WELL (later the Dutch De Digitale Stad popped up as a similar...
By Sjoerd Tuinema on 09/27/09 Comments Off on Twitter and its networking (in)capabilities

Social Network Sites – friend/Friend/defriend

Social Network Sites (SNSs), like Facebook and Hyves, are focused on ‘Friendship’. As SNSs get more mainstream and infiltrate in our everyday lives the use of the term ‘Friendship’ becomes more problematic within the SNSs discourse. Using the labels...
By Kimberley Spreeuwenberg on 09/27/09 2

Merging Social Media into the field of Online Dating

Personally on-line dating is not my cup of tea, and my boyfriend would kill me if I would consider it, but for some reason the phenomena itself keeps grabbing my attention. The basic concept of dating sites has not...
By Denise Pires on 09/27/09 Comments Off on Merging Social Media into the field of Online Dating
Fakebook on Facebook

Fakebook on Facebook

Fake is not necessarily referring to anything bad here. Basically they are real people with a fake or virtual identity. They are like actors on the Internet instead of movies or TV episodes. They have certain characters with their...
By Sisi Yu on 09/27/09 4

Are We Addicted to Social Networking Sites?

Social Networking sites  such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and Hyves have exploded in the past five years and have caused a societal shift in the way we communicate and connect with others. In 2009, time spent on social networking...
By Sarah Moore on 09/27/09 1

Is open always better than closed?

I went to an exhibition in the Tropenmuseum called Dono’s code, by the contemporary artist Heri Dono (1960). The first of his many politically charged works was Fermentation of Mind. I sneakily took a picture of it because it was quite impressive....
By Rakesh Kanhai on 09/27/09 2