http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-web-wide-social-network/ Personal Blog - Chris Saad Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-web-wide-social-network/#comment-834 “The distributed social web” at Cloudlands Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:01:09 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=207#comment-834 [...] Gartner talk summary by Ross Dawson about the distributed social web, via another blog post by Chris Saad. Building blocks like OpenID, oAuth and microformats are mentioned in both posts, and I wanted to [...] [...] Gartner talk summary by Ross Dawson about the distributed social web, via another blog post by Chris Saad. Building blocks like OpenID, oAuth and microformats are mentioned in both posts, and I wanted to [...]

]]> http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-web-wide-social-network/#comment-831 GadgetMan Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:40:16 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=207#comment-831 Yes, the web already is a social network. So the findings from Gartner are not new, they have already been known to academics and researchers such as Tom Erickson from IBM who coined the web as "social hypertext" and sociologists like Barry Wellman that said a computer network is a social network. This is where many researchers are exploiting this social data in order to create better searching algorithms, web applications, and user interfaces which you already see today in the Web 2.0 and social networking areas. Yes, the web already is a social network. So the findings from Gartner are not new, they have already been known to academics and researchers such as Tom Erickson from IBM who coined the web as “social hypertext” and sociologists like Barry Wellman that said a computer network is a social network. This is where many researchers are exploiting this social data in order to create better searching algorithms, web applications, and user interfaces which you already see today in the Web 2.0 and social networking areas.

]]> http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-web-wide-social-network/#comment-830 Chris Saad Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:53:19 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=207#comment-830 What sort of term describing what - I've already coined many haha What sort of term describing what – I’ve already coined many haha

]]> http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-web-wide-social-network/#comment-829 Chris Lunt Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:38:13 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=207#comment-829 You should coin a term about the "attention economy", it's a key idea. You should coin a term about the “attention economy”, it’s a key idea.

]]> http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-web-wide-social-network/#comment-827 Melissa Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:30:40 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=207#comment-827 I was just talking about this with a friend who does digital watermarking about how attention and bandwidth are the new measures of currency... I am in a tither for things to come, and am excited to play with this particular idea and how it's lends itself to authenticity. I was just talking about this with a friend who does digital watermarking about how attention and bandwidth are the new measures of currency… I am in a tither for things to come, and am excited to play with this particular idea and how it’s lends itself to authenticity.

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