Social Networking

Join us for this free, live webcast--Psychotronica: Abusing and Leveraging ...

In this presentation, we will go beyond discussing the obvious security and privacy implications of social media. Topics of discussion will include: Hacking the Psyche: Remote behavior analysis that can be used to construct personality profiles to ...

[Publish Date: September 18, 2009]

W3C Hosts Workshop on Social Networking - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

Social Networking and Community 2.0 have both become critical parts of the web infrastructure, so it is perhaps not surprising that the W3C, keeper of all things web, is now weighing in on the topic. On January 15-16, 2009, the W3C will host the Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, Spain, where it will pull together vendors, project leaders, and social networking experts to explore the ramifications that social networking has for the web, and whether the W3C should establish a formal working group dealing with Social Networking related issues.

[Publish Date: January 13, 2009]

Facebook: The Missing Manual -- New from O'Reilly Media: Finally! A Missing ...

Sebastopol, CA--Facebook, the stratospherically popular social networking site, combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, and playful applications, to help people connect with their friends who work, study, and live around them. No longer...

[Publish Date: January 23, 2008]

Riding the Social Networking Wave to Democratize Book Distribution and ...

By Krishna Motukuri, Mike McGuinness

Author Storefronts, Widgets and Social Networking Apps, Oh My! "This panel discussion will feature Krishna Motukuri, SVP at Lulu.com,and weRead founder discussing how POD advances made self-publishing a viable alternative to the traditional publishing model – giving authors more control over their book's future.

[Publish Date: February 09, 2009]

Building Enterprise Social Networks with Liferay Portal: OSCON 2009 - ...

By Brian Chan

Liferay Portal is a Java framework that provides blogs, document management, message boards, and wikis, with a social network flavor. We'll demo how to use Liferay Social API to wire collaborative social network sites for Cisco and Mini United, write an app that will automatically expose it to Facebook and iGoogle, and how to write language-agnostic apps in Java, Groovy, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be ...

By Andy Oram

Recurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were mysteriously dropped for days at a time, have led many people to challenge the centralized control exerted by companies running social networks. We may have been willing to build our virtual houses on shaky foundations when they were temporary beach huts; but now we need to examine the ground on which many are proposing to build our virtual shopping malls and even our virtual federal offices. Instead of the constant churning among the commercial sites du jour (Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), the next generation of social networking increasingly appears to require a decentralized, peer-to-peer infrastructure. This article looks at efforts in that space and suggests principles to guide development.

[Publish Date: September 14, 2009]

Ghosts of Location Based Social Networking Past, Present and Future: Where ...

By Mat Honan, Nihal Mehta, Dennis Crowley, Martin May, Jeff Holden

An exploration of the evolution of location-based social networking and how location-based applications will impact the way everyday users interact with the friends and find nearby venues and events. Includes several founders of past and current location-based social networks, including Brightkite, Buzzd, Dodgeball and Moximity.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]