Tech Crunch reports on PopFly, Microsoft’s new tool for creating applications. It’s in Beta, and I decide to check it out. Ok, I need to sign in… I am greeted with a Microsoft Passport requirement (ugh). Furthermore, take a look at their signup page. Click to enlarge.

Seriously, it looks like a 12 year old made […]

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Please digg and help me find this interview…
If someone could help me out, I am looking for an interview I recall Zuckerberg did where he claimed they had a joke inside Facebook that ‘we can guess who will get into a relationship based on variables’. I won’t venture to guess the success rate they had, […]

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On the social graph:
Zuckerberg: “What we’re trying to do at Facebook is take that social graph which already exists and map it out. Then we can take that map we’ve constructed and connect everything through applications… That concept is deep in the company’s philosophy. In fact, we thought of building a platform for social applications […]

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Are we truly in bubble land?
Steve Rubel:
The whole social graph thing is a unicorn-like myth. We have a social graph already - it’s called real life. True sign we are in bubbleland about 7 hours ago from web.
A bubble exists when there is […]

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We can all get news from the newspaper. When the web came we got news from online news sites, such as CNN.com. Then Google took all of those news sites, and fed them into a personalized news page for you. You could decide what topics to view, but it was still news filtered only by […]

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Facebook App Design: Elements of Style -
The viral spread of Facebook apps is 7 times greater than other platforms because of the API.
Think mathematically, who you are targeting and how people will see it.
Jia Shen, RockYou.

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Dave Morin, senior platform manager, Facebook:
Facebook is largest photo sharing site. Not because of more features but because it leverages the power of the social graph.

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More rumblings about social graphing.
While the information in the social graph can be useful for facilitating my ability to find people I know in new social media applications or social networks I join, its value is significantly higher to prospective service providers when considered with the source of the graph data. The source metadata […]

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Grazr has introduced the Twitter Reader in August. Today it is their ‘tool of the day’. It allows you to browse the social graph starting with a Twitter user.
Drill down as many levels as you want. Why stop at just six degrees of separation? You can jump from friend to friend to your heart’s content.
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Instead of browsing websites on information, many people have started browsing… other people, even ones they don’t know. I had lunch with a friend yesterday and was discussing social networking with her, and how we will begin assessing the mathematical relevance of a relationship using profile and picture views as a small part of the […]

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