XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people
Combine all of your social sites, bookmarking sites, blogs, personal or business websites, playlists, and more into one personal 'folio,' or 'profile.' Massive number of options and sites available. Privacy concerns? Well...
Recent Developments on the Internet: The common characteristic, which all these systems share, is that the approach is "bottom-up" rather than "top-down". This means that in these environments content and structure are not determined by professional, corp
In social networks, some individuals interact with more people and more often than others. In this context, one may wonder: under which conditions are social beings willing to be cooperative? Current models proposed in the context of evolutionary game the
Blog by visiting professor at the Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California. Good links. "Social networks are social systems with abstract and concrete relationships. It can be regarded as social relations that connect informa
Like locked cell phones and copy-protected music, Facebook is on the wrong side of the open-network debate. Facebook is a sealed bubble. Facebook users are locked into Facebook, just as iTunes locks music fans to Apple's iPod.
"If Facebook allowed users to differentiate between their professional and social relationships and control what parts of their profile are visible based on relationship type, it" could be the end of LinkedIn...