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Twitter and FriendFeed have great tactics and Twitter is certainly lagging behind FriendFeed at this time (IE groups) but certainly a follower that you don't have to follow back is excellent and one ups Myspace and Facebook where mutual relationships must be created.
I, for one, miss the Facebook Social Timeline. It's buried now but was my favorite part of Facebook and I wish we could bring it back to the forefront.
Thanks for the post and I'll try out Feedly. I wish you and I could have sat down at SXSWi but we both kept passing each other in the halls. Maybe next year.
http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/define_friend/
And even if you're not trying to get a job, there's always the possibility of learning things. I can learn many things from my Facebook contacts. I can learn many more things from my FriendFeed contacts.
And I also have to agree with the word "friend" losing its meaning in the social networking world. Facebook telling me "You are now friends with Jennifer" when Jennifer is my Sister, is simply ridiculous. Likewise telling me that about people I barely know is ridiculous. I am now "connected with them" on Facebook.
I've recently started using FriendFeed (at your video suggestion) and am amazed at how that has opened my ability to see what's going on around me -on all these social network sites.
And why shouldn't you have as many "friends" as you want? For whatever reasons you want. It's not your job or ours to make Facebook's programming tasks easier by limiting our possibilities or opportunities.
No wait, Arrington is
Given Facebook's rule of "no pseudonymity", people tend to infer that Facebook "friends" should be "friends In Real Life" - which I reject completely. I've "unfriended" family, co-workers and "in real life" friends for various reasons. I also have "Facebook friends" I haven't met (yet).
I'll save the discussion of "what makes me unfriend you" for another time.
Oh dear - I've really "overdone" the "quotations" :)
Thanks for this great post! If you agreed, I would say this is not only a great post but also one of the best introduction I have read to the company I am running.
Pearltrees builds a collaborative map of the Web : each user creates, edit and organize the maps of its Web navigations. Users' account are the living maps and sub-maps of their favorite contents.
As a consequence, Pearltrees enable the type of experience you described in your post… and even beyond.
Users can put other user's maps in their own maps : the "Bordeaux rouge"s map of one user and the "californian champain"'s map of another user into their own "wine map". Other user’s can then take the later “wine map” into their “great meal” or their “grate life” own maps… By doing so, they not only separate information according to their context: they organize information and build its context.
There is much more. As each user is drawing her own public map of the Web, she contributes to the very substance of Pearltrees : an humanly edited map of the Web –an interest graph, if you prefer- through which everyone can now browse freely.
Would like an example? Just check my account at http://www.pearltrees.com/patrice . Or - much better- would you directly like to join pearltrees community ? please type http://www.pearltrees.com.
Patrice Lamothe
CEO of Pearltrees
Most internet "friends" aren't at all. They're acquaintances.
How about "friends" and "online community friend". Online community friend means you connected with them online but may have never met them. Friends should really be people that you actually spend time with. But there is no way to break out friends in Facebook versus online friend (other then lists...)
"Whoever conquers Track will be like those who made music and pictures come out of thin air, coursing over invisible wires and virtual rabbit ears. The big networks emerged out of that soup, and to this day they remain powerful beacons. Now the social media clouds are forming, and they have no choice but to confront and conquer the microstream."
techcrunchit.com/2009/03/22/please-stand-by/
You've been working on conquering Track via Friendfeed as you describe. It's definitely one of the main if not THE problem of our time, since attention has already become the only truly scarce resource in this information economy. For the same reason of I've recently been experimenting with using Thunderbird to import my Twitter "with Friends" RSS stream and use simple (email client) message filters to accomplish similar things.
On a much lighter note, whenever the topic turns to the "true" meaning of Facebook friends, it might help to remember the following (as per Dickipedia):
"In 2004, Zuckerberg debuted a primitive online social networking site called Facebook, named for the annual publication that collegiate upper classmen use to identify attractive freshmen girls with low self-esteem. At the time, Zukerberg planned to offer the service only to students within the Ivy League, because, as is widely known, Ivy League students have long had problems finding ways to network with one another."
Cheers!
Will keep all posted if the Union of individual P.U.B.'s learn more,
Barney Moran
P.U.B.
Twitter = news. Blogs = content. Plug in Adsense and you're in business. Email to verify identity. That's all you need. Keep it simple.
If there was any other point to this post I missed it in the blaring ego.
I agree with you, also I like beng connected with people who are really all over the World. Maybe I have not met them but Facebook opens the chance to have that happen. It's great for business.
Like a system that gives me recommendations (about wine, books, concerts, movies, holidays, art etc.) depending on the different social graphs for each object?
If such a social graph could be a truly distributed one, each social network would have to worry about its own users. But a larger social graph could be aggregated from each network. Something for DISO?
Me, know anything about wine? I know what's local to me, but that's about it.
I do know a little about baby strollers, but much of that is probably out-of-date at this point. Lately, all I've seen are what I call "urban assault strollers."
And personally, I've pretty much junked all the online uses of "friend" and started using "colleague." I've found that term to be much more applicable to my online relationships.
I only know you via Internet.
I'd met my wife in internet too.
So, beware.
Regular people don't care about social networking. They care if their real life friends are in somewhere having fun or not. I was jealous when I'd found out that many of my friends back in Turkey had already been registered in facebook. It was a great find.
Why jealous? Er, I've been using internet since 1997, and while living abroad, not knowing anything better than ICQ. hehe. I'd discovered web forums related to my profession earlier, but didn't know about social networking until 2006.
I remember myself being registered in a lot of places, and I thought "Oh, what's the buzz about this". I thought twitter was facebook.
Facebook was and is great for me, because I wanted to 'meet' my real life friends and follow them.
Lately enjoying twitter, because it makes me feel like I'm part of the internet which was not 'accessible' before.
All this made me feel like blogging.
See? For a 'regular user' like me, things can get pretty much upside down.
It should make sense. Not everyone lives in internet. It should be just a part of my real life, improving it.
I don't believe that word means what you think it means. That just based on how you are using it.
Well, that's a switch...you actually focus on how a friendship benefits you.
Wait!...sorry! I got confused. That actually *is* consistent with how you view the world.