Entries tagged with “social networking” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

On March 21, I'll be leading a workshop on “Web Presence” at BAIPA's annual Get Published Conference in San Anselmo, California. I put that in quotes because it's a wonderfully vast topic, and I'd love to hear your thoughts. What creative ways have you discovered to promote (or find) books online?...

When half your population can't read, the spoken word becomes crucial. The Literacy Bridge project is designing a portable voice recorder that third-world populations can use to share news, history, and educational texts. In addition to recording and playing back audio, the Talking Book Device (hardware specs PDF) has buttons for basic interactivity — think quizzes and branching. Furthermore,...

Social Networking is exploding -- that much is clear. But did you know that sites such as Facebook, Friendster, and MySpace are more than online watering holes where kids gather and socialize? They're creating social change in tandem. Facebook recent launched a "Causes" application tab, allowing members to participate in what the creators have dubbed "equal opportunity activism". Over 35,000...

As everybody knows, the promise of Java was that functionality written once could run unmodified on different machines, different types of devices and different types of runtime spaces (e.g., server-side, client-side or browser-based). But this isn't a commentary about Java, its successes, and where and how it fell short. Rather, this post is an assessment of how digital media and...

My favorite OSCON presentation on wednesday was Brad Fitzpatrick's "Inside LiveJournal's Backend" presentation. This year at OSCON there are a number of presentations that focus on high availability, scalability and growing web sites, and Brad's presentation was the most down to earth presentation. When comparing the story of LiveJournal to the story of TicketMaster, it's clear that LiveJournal has...

With 40% of the online population now having always-on, broadband connections, new types of tools are needed for consumers to better manage the online information that flows through such connections. This blog discusses the attributes of one such tool, which I call an inter-personal information manager, or iPim for short.

Clay Shirky destills the vast quanities of useful knowledge from social software, group dynamics and human interaction into a packed keynote speech at ETech.

A friendnet is a network topology where every TCP/IP connection is backed up by a meatspace connection.

Can 'innovative, non-obvious' social instruments and constructs really be given intellectual property protection?

I was happy to find this... useful for educating people who don't know all these terms.

The complexity of managing online identities may be the biggest boon to Passport

Peer pressure is the driver of the network effect.