Sociometry - Wikipedia
quantitative method for measuring social relationships
Sociogram - Wikipedia
graphic representation of social links that a person has
Social graph - Wikipedia
graph that represents social relations between entities
EMOTIONS MAPPED BY NEW GEOGRAPHY; Charts Seek to Portray the Psychological Currents of Human Relationships. FIRST STUDIES EXHIBITED Colored Lines Show Likes and Dislikes of Individuals and of Groups. MANY MISFITS REVEALED Dr. J.L. Moreno Calculates There Are 10 to 15 Million Isolated Individuals In Nation. (Published 1933)
Explains psychological geography
How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web's Hottest Platform
Photo: Emily Shur He didn't have much choice but to sell. It was summer 2006, a little more than two years after Mark Zuckerberg had created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room as a way for him and his friends to better connect with schoolmates. In the intervening years, he'd raised $37.7 million from venture capitalists \[…\]
Andreessen to Facebook Board? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD
Silicon Valley luminary Marc Andreessen has been asked to join the board of Facebook, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation. While the arrangement is not completed yet, sources said the longtime entrepreneur has verbally agreed to accept the post to become the fourth member of the board of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social-networking site.
night, for example, BoomTown broke the news that Google PR head Elliot Schrage had accepted a similiar job at Facebook.
That comes after Facebook hired another top Google (GOOG) exec, Sheryl Sandberg, as its COO, in March.
Inside Facebook » Marc Andreessen to Join Facebook Board?
What’s Next Google? (You Won the Battle, What About the War?) « SmoothSpan Blog
Google’s OpenSocial API for Social Networking applets looks like a fabulous coup, particularly after the surprise second shoe dropped and MySpace jumped on the OpenSocial bandwagon. Suddenly it seemed that Facebook was surrounded with nowhere to turn. But it’s important to remember that Google has only won one battle and not the war.
Tim Anderson’s ITWriting - Tech writing blog » OpenSocial: where’s the identity story?
The media is ga-ga right now about Google’s OpenSocial story but most accounts are missing the key question here, which is about identity rather than APIs. An honourable exception is David Berlind - one of my top 10 tech journalists - who posed an interesting question at a press briefing but received an incomplete answer (a common experience). He asked how identities are mapped between containers.
Further, if I sign into a new container site, the big barrier to entry is that I have to recreate a friends network on this new site. Some sites workaround this problem in the crudest possible way. You have to give the new container site your username and password for some other container, and it pretends to be you and sucks out your existing contacts.
There are several implications. First, the impact of OpenSocial on Facebook is probably less than some are implying. Facebook’s advantage is its bank of existing accounts and relationships. MySpace has lots of these too; but the arrival of OpenSocial has not changed that fact.
OpenSocial could evolve some federated way to unite identities. Or Google could try to make its Google Account system the center of our digital lives.
The identity wars matter more than the API wars.
Privacy groups challenge social networking plans - San Jose Mercury News
Two Washington-based public interest groups called on the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday to investigate the data collection practices of social networks, as Google announced a new set of software standards designed to make it easier for outside developers to tailor applications for those
Adam Nash, senior director of product at LinkedIn, which is used by professionals, said the service is committed to protecting privacy and will let users decide who has access to their data. "We will have settings that let you control how much information you share with an application," he said.
Details of Google's "Open Social" alliance, to be formally unveiled today, and Facebook's anticipated "SocialAds" initiative suggest that the Web's great corporate powers are poised to use mountains of personal data to help advertisers target customers.
But security experts say the advertising war could also open a Pandora's box, unleashing personal data in ways consumers never suspected. The collateral damage could include greater potential for identity theft, tainted reputations and extortion.
The potential is "Orwellian," said Michael Fertik, founder and chief executive of ReputationDefender, a Menlo Park-based company. "When you have a lot of traffic that comes from identifiable IP (Internet protocol) addresses that exhibit a lot of trackable behavior, you generate a staggering amount of rather specific information about individual users as well as classes of users. And in many social networks, the greatest part of their value is to identify users by name."
But consumers, he said, have reason to worry once companies share data with partners. "The danger is not in advertising. The danger is in the bonanza of information that is available," Fertik said.
Google I/O 2009 - Google Data APIs & OAuth for OpenSocial..
Google I/O 2009 - Using Google Data APIs and OAuth to Create an OpenSocial Gadget
Monsur Hossain, Eric Bidelman
-- Contents --
1:06 - Building an iGoogle gadget to talk to Google Services (Blogger)
1:35 - Issues with acessing private data in JS
2:45 - Solution: Use OAuth Proxy in iGoogle
3:01 - OAuth Proxy + iGoogle Technology Stack
3:44 - Basics of OAuth
7:00 - Issues with using OAuth in JS
7:50 - OAuth Proxy overview
9:03 - Enabling OAuth in a gadget
11:15 - Building a Gadget - gadget design
12:41 - Building a Gadget - presentation layer
14:40 - Demo: Blogger Post Gadget
16:55 - fetchData() using OpenSocial JS APIs
21:57 - Creating the magic OAuth popup window handler
21:49 - Making things easier: Google Data JS client library
22:32 - fetchData() using the Google Data JS APIs
25:28 - JS to post data to Blogger
27:32 - What the Oauth Proxy is doing behind the scenes
31:20 - More Demos!
33:35 - Wrap up. What did we learn?
34:48 - Q&A
-- End --
Thanks to the new OAuth Proxy, developers can write JavaScript gadgets for OpenSocial containers that can securely access Google Data APIs. But did you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes? This session will present a walkthrough of an OpenSocial gadget and will explain the components and their interactions that make such secure access possible.
For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html
Google Open Social Mobile Application Development | Android App Developers
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Google I/O 2008 - OpenSocial: A Standard for the Social Web - YouTube
Haven't watched yet.
Keeping up with Google OpenSocial | Ignite Social Media
Ok, maybe you've heard rumblings of Google's wanting to "out open" Facebook? Well, today, Google announced the release of a set of tools (APIs) that will enable developers to easily create applications (widgets) that will work on any participating network. As of this writing, the list of social network partners include Orkut (of course), Hi5, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Plaxo, Friendster, Oracle and, just announced, MySpace (wow!).
Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear Attempt on Google
The social network secretly hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about the search giant, The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons reveals—a caper that is blowing up in their face, and escalating their war.
Last month, Google CEO and cofounder Larry Page sent out a memo telling everyone at Google that social networking was a top priority for Google—so much so that 25 percent of every Googler’s bonus this year will be based on how well Google does in social.
Examining Facebook's "Smear Campaign" Concerns About Google Social Circles
I read the news today, oh boy. The Facebook army had just declared a war. Well, a smear campaign against Google. For the record, Facebook denies that it
How Facebook Enables The Google Social "Scraping" It's Upset About
I wrote a very long examination of the issues that Facebook employed a PR firm to publicize, about how Facebook feels Google may be violating privacy with
We wanted third parties to verify that people did not approve of the collection and use of information from their accounts on Facebook and other services for inclusion in Google Social Circles—just as Facebook did not approve of use or collection for this purpose.
Diaspora Unveils its Open Social Code
The developers behind Diaspora, the social network aiming to build an open source Facebook clone, and maybe steal some of the giant’s thunder, have released their first bit of actual code. The goal behind the Diaspora project is to create a social network that puts users in charge of their own data. As the developers \[…\]
Google: As Open As It Wants To Be (i.e., When It's Convenient)
In two weeks, we've had two "open" initiatives from Google: OpenSocial, to free social networking data from behind the Facebook walled garden and the Open
That large index gives Google a huge advantage over rivals. It knows more about what’s on the web than anyone else. So why not share? Why not start an Open Index Alliance where there’s a coordinated effort to crawl and index all the documents in the world, allowing anyone to tap into the raw data?
The OCA was started in 2005 as a rival to Google’s book scanning efforts, with Yahoo and Microsoft as major backers but the Internet Archive also participating and leading as a neutral party. Of course, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle has had plenty of non-neutral things to say about Google’s book scanning efforts, concerned that Google is gobbling too much up for its own.
Google To Pressure Facebook To "Free" Social Data & Planning Google Earth World?
Finally, as Mike says, since you’re being all open sounding, that gives you
leverage to say other social networks should be open, so that their data can
flow into you. That’s handy if you’re Google and freaking out that Facebook
seems to have a huge graph in your major market (the US), where you are now
behind. Plus, it’s handy when people are feeling kind of all social overloaded
and you think there might be a groundswell of support that Facebook should
open up.
OpenSocial: Led By Google, Social Networks Band To Take On Facebook
As expected, the much-discussed Google social play turns out to be an alliance with other companies to open up social networks and their data to
“It is going to forestall Facebook’s ability to get everyone writing just for Facebook,” said a person with knowledge of the plans who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak on behalf of the alliance. The group’s platform, which is called OpenSocial, is “compatible across all the companies,” that person said.
Google To Close Social Graph API, Not OpenSocial | MarTech
Has good links.
Back in 2007, worried that too much of the web’s social information was being locked behind Facebook’s walls, Google launched OpenSocial. It was designed to be an “open” way of sharing social data, as the Open Social home page says:
Social Graph API Demo - Site Connectivity
Renewing old resolutions for the new year
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Open and Shut
Let’s put the old “open beats closed” axiom to bed.
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Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace | TechCrunch
Facebook is holding a massive press/developer event today in San Francisco to officially launch Facebook Platform. 750 or so people are here. A number of
Full audio of MySpace/Google/Flixster news conference; Also, how is identity handled? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
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I sure hope, as Bob says, that a Google Account isn't the only key to cross service mapping. Isn't OpenID supposed to resolve this need for centralized authentication?
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