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Two million members for the London Network on Facebook.

Jan 8, 2008

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are now two million people who consider themselves to be part of the London network. It is currently the biggest network Facebook has to the best of my knowledge. I know it was the largest before and there’s a good chance it has remained so. That’s a lot of people.…

Plaxo Pulse and Facebook

Jan 3, 2008

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in facebook, plaxo, seesmic, social media, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor all of those privacy advocates I’m on your side for this issue. With a lot of communitis you create a profile and friends can see it. What you give them are both your name and possibly phone number but no more. When you’re building a database of contacts you must…

The Scoble Vs Facebook event

Jan 3, 2008

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in facebook

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a response to a post on Segala: Scoble opens up debate about walled gardens after being booted by Facebook. There are two key factors to take into account. The first of these is the issue of privacy and the second is the free flow of information. Unlike most other sites…

The friendship Wheel

Dec 31, 2007

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in facebook

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst looking at another person’s Facebook profile I noticed something. Two thirds of the people were connected to each other yet one third had no connections. It made me think about the nature of the friendship wheel and how it demonstrates how you use facebook. If you use facebook for real…

Why i dislike how people use Facebook.

Dec 14, 2007

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in facebook, social media, social networking

Reading Time: 2 minutesFacebook was a great idea. It was great because it was an online method by which to meet people within your network and to get to know them before you drop by the bar. It was especially good for those who are shy. As more people started using it though something bad…

Open Social vs Portal facebook

Nov 4, 2007

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in facebook, opensocial, social networking, twitter

Reading Time: 2 minutesLoudmouthman, amongst others was expressing his desire for a means by which to aggregate all our online data through one central account. I though of Freebase and Openid and how they could work. Google though had other thoughts. Whilst Facebook behaves like a portal opensocial helps agggregate content. Facebook assumes thatyou come…

Bill Palmer of Iprong 3c, twittermail3k twittter 3k+

Oct 15, 2007

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in facebook, Post-university life, social networking, tech related, twitter

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s news is as follows. Having seen that Bill Palmer of the Iprong podcast and website would add the 300th friend on Facebook I decided I would take this opportunity to add him. His podcast is “for the ipod generation so take the time to listen to it. It’s mainly about…

The Facebook Friend Density Map

Oct 12, 2007

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in facebook

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Friend density map is an interesting one. It shows you where the highest concentration of your friends is. It’s a good idea when you’ve got friends spread around the world as we do. It’s a shame it’s limited only to the US at the moment. I can only see six…

England is Top EU country for social networking

Oct 11, 2007

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in facebook, social networking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to a recent article in the Times England is top EU country for social networking with 5.6 hrs a month spent on social networking websites such as Facebook: Britons are the ‘social networking’ champions of Europe, displaying a far greater appetite for websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo than…

People appreciate video of an event for the second time

Oct 8, 2007

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in editing, facebook, London, social networking, video archive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few months ago I filmed the Silent Disco in Paddington station, one of London’s main train stations. As a result of the coverage of the event many people were happy to see it. With the footage I have recently filmed of the events that took place on the 6th of…

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