Posted on February 4, 2008 by John Breslin
In a previous post, I listed some interesting articles I found about the application of social networks to business scenarios. This was based on research I did for a presentation on “Social Networking and Collaboration Tools for Enterprise 2.0” in October. Referencing these articles, I also prepared some answers for questions at the [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2007 by John Breslin
I was interviewed during the summer for an interesting documentary about Bebo and online social networks (or “social networking services” 
by the Multime Group from DCU. I prepared some answers for their questions, which I am sharing here.
What is your interpretation of an online social network (OSN)?
My interpretation is that it is a [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2007 by John Breslin
I think I’m probably not alone when I say that Technorati may have put too much in at once when they decided to move from focussing on blogs to many other types of tagged content some time ago.
Luckily, they also implemented a stripped-down version for those who remember and just want to use Technorati [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2007 by John Breslin
The Web 2.0 Expo blog recently launched a “Product 2.0” competition for free tickets to any of the forthcoming Web 2.0 Expo events. Here are my entries:
Broc.co.li is the healthy green vegetable you will WANT to eat! Our Broc.co.li heads contain powerful nanites that can target the mouth’s taste buds and provide [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2007 by John Breslin
I’ve just read Chris Horn’s article entitled “The Long Tail Wags” which was inspired by a recent conference I participated in. His post describes how commercial organisations can benefit from and add value to the global Web 2.0-using community.
There are some interesting observations on risks and opportunities associated with the large quantities of user-generated [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2007 by John Breslin
Eric Schmidt, speaking at Google’s Zeitgeist conference recently said: “People don’t appreciate how many page views on the Internet are in social networks. It is very real. It’s a very real phenomenon.”
It’d be interesting to know just what proportion of ALL page views do go to SNSs. I’m still quoting last November’s [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2007 by John Breslin
In a September article from Wired entitled “Beware These Six Lamest Social Networks“, Matthew Honan lists some of his least favourite social networking services (SNSs). These happen to be niche SNSs, and although he sees little reason for their existence, I would strongly disagree. As long as a niche SNS or community site [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2007 by John Breslin
Here are some interesting links I’ve come across in the past few days related to social networks and their applications in enterprise / business scenarios.
The water cooler is now on the Web
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_40/b4052072.htm
The expanding world of social networking
http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=4247
Social networking: a time waster or the next big thing in collaboration?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808149
Social networks may become interoperable
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201808173
Business faces up to [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2007 by John Breslin
There have been a variety of figures bandied about for the ratio of content contributors to browsers / lurkers on social media sites.
From CNET News.com:
A recent Hitwise study indicates that as few as 4 percent of Internet users actually contribute to sites like YouTube and Flickr, and more than 55 percent are men. [...] To [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2007 by John Breslin
Two articles about two different technologies both bearing the name Atom caught my attention recently.
The first was a blog entry on the 24th of July by Tim Bray on the approval of the Atom Publishing Protocol as an RFC standard by the IETF’s Internet Engineering Steering Group. You may already be familiar with [...]
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