No updates in a while… while an interesting subject, I found that tracking the conglomeration of social networks is not something I fancied on a daily basis. This site will be dormant until an urge strikes me to begin writing again.

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Quite the interesting development, here comes ‘Maka-Maka’
Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google’s personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time.
More on this at […]

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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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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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You’ve heard the term before, but it is worth a revisit. Google changed search by using an algorithm that determined which sites were the most popular based on how many sites it linked to, and how important those sites were. The same will be applied to the social graph.
Would PeopleRank work the same […]

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