21.06.07
Jamie
Develop for Facebook
Back in 2005 the wife first told me about Facebook and how she couldn’t help but spend hours on there, communicating with her college pals. As it was a college only town back then I couldn’t experience it for myself, which I was quite happy about considering I had no time to write on walls! Recently encouraged to sign up by the big ADP I have suddenly found that everyone I know is on the network, constantly updating their profiles and using applications developed for Facebook.
I was curious about these apps and recently came across the Facebook Platform after reading Marc Andressen’s post. This platform is a set of APIs and services that allow developers to build applications, register them with Facebook and then users can add them to their Facebook profiles. This seems a great way to share your applications with friends and before long millions of people could be using them!
22.06.07
Wonderwall
As someone struggling to find time to maintain their Friends Reunited, Linked-in, MSN and Facebook profiles, not to mention the plethora of other social sharing sites such as MySpace, Bebo, YouTube, Last.fm, Virb, Delicious (aaaaargh - too many!) the app I want most is a one-stop-shop solution which allows me too pump my stuff out to as many different sites possible - preferably one which automatically generates contacts (illegitimate or otherwise) to ensure I look as popular as possible. Oh, and ensures random twitters are posted to my blog to make it look like I’m busier than the Prime Minister. EgoSpace could be the name :-)
22.06.07
Matt
Until there is one social network to rule them all, you could always try iStalkr, the Social Feed Aggregator. It allows you to create a lifestream from all of your various profiles on the more popular networks.
25.06.07
Matt
BBC News have got an article about the class divide on the social networks. A survey carried out in the US found that there was a clear difference between the users of MySpace and Facebook in the USA. MySpace users were more likely to be ‘teens from immigrant, Latino and Hispanic families… as well as many others who are not part of the “dominant high school popularity paradigm”.’
In contrast, Facebook users ‘tend to be white and come from families who are keen for children to get the most out of school and go on to college’.
Visually, these two in particular are also divided considering that they do pretty much the same thing. You could almost guess their userbase just from the way they look.
26.06.07
Wonderwall
Never mind the class divide, just check out the geographical divide! Be careful all those brave enough to navigate the Straits of Web 2.0.