Tag Archives: facebook

YASNS?*

Whisking through my unread posts today, two items struck me as demanding a little follow-up. First of all, danah boyd and Nicole Ellison’s Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship. The nature of the paper is pretty obvious from its title, though that is not to imply that it is not well-written, intelligent and provoking. [...]

"Top of the World, Ma!"

News Blog - Daily Brief: Official: Facebook Poised to "Take Over The World" - Portfolio.com
Among other things, it will allow businesses to set up their own Facebook pages and then reach out to real, live users — that is, potential customers — based on the interests they have described in their profiles.
If those interests [...]