Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison have written a formal paper entitled,
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
There is more to follow. Danah knows about this stuff. If you need to catch up on the history of social networks, This is where to start, its good stuff.
Did you know they predate the noughties?
Danah Boyd wrote this insightful piece on class divisions on FaceBook and MySpace. The Internet went mental and threw back a lot of unstructured abuse and uninformed comment. She in turn has written a response to the shit storm.
Go Danah!
John Toone CEO of Ireland’s emerging social music network startup, Muzu.tv, spoke at SXSW about their goals in the coming months. Watch the promo video for a quick understanding of what they do (best to do it with headsphones, there is musical content).
These guys are going to go large…
Watch Sean O’Sullivan pitch MySay.com at ETEL (you need to scroll down a bit and wait for the video to load) What’s MySay? Its a a social network for your phone, think twitter for voice.
If you listen carefully you can hear me bleating about setting up a router on one of the clips he demos.
(Fixed duffed up link to actual presentation!)Â
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