Tag Archives: social networking

Facebook vs. everyone

26 May 2010 – 22:55

It seems like Facebook is in the news constantly these days. People are concerned about privacy, security, and general trust of Facebook. So to address those issues, today Facebook announced new privacy controls. I can see both sides of the issue, so I decided to draw a comic:

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On why people ask questions on social networks

24 Apr 2010 – 19:05

Social search behavior is now generally agreed to be common enough that companies like Google are buying up companies like Aardvark, and academic researchers are asking good questions about the value of networks for question-answering (Q-A). I have done a bit of research in this area myself, and so I was quite pleased to read [...]

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Three Flavors of Social Search: What to Expect

22 Nov 2009 – 16:09

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on November 12, 2009, as a guest author. With Google’s Social Search experiment, Bing’s integration with Twitter, and with Yahoo!’s partnership with One Riot—it’s clear that social search has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if [...]

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Why there’s nothing to fear in social search

28 Oct 2009 – 12:32

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on Oct 27, 2009, as a guest author. Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this “social search” would entail, and some expressed [...]

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