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Social Networking: The Present

Social Networking: The Present
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Read Part I first, this one, and then Part III. Follow him on Twitter @msuster. Social Networking in Web 2.0: Plaxo & LinkedIn In my last post, I discussed the origins of social networking online, beginning with CompuServe, Prodigy, the Well, then the rise of AOL, Geocities and Yahoo Groups. There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about” mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward. And come after they did. And importantly Web 2.0 ushered in the era of “participation” – we all know that. But the masses didn’t want to blog. Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook

Social Networking: The Future Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Read Part I and Part II first. This series is an adaptation of a recent talk Suster gave at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking.” You can watch the video here , or you can scroll quickly through the Powerpoint slides embedded at the bottom of the post or here on DocStoc. Follow him on Twitter @msuster. In my first post I talked about the history of social networking from 1985-2002 dominated by CompuServe, AOL & Yahoo! 1. Right now our social graph (whom we are connected to and their key information like email addresses) is mostly held captive by Facebook. Facebook will succumb to pressure and over time make this available to us to allow us more choice in being part of several social networks without having to spam all of our friends again. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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Social Networking: The Past Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Be sure to also read Part II and Part III. This series is an adaptaion of a recent talk he gave at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking.” You can watch the video here , or you can scroll quickly through the Powerpoint slides embedded at the bottom of the post or here on DocStoc. Follow him on Twitter @msuster. Social Networking 25 Years Ago: CompuServ, Prodigy & The Well Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. Yes, I was doing it when I was a teenager and yes, it was online, too. In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL

Facebook Adds Email Importing To Page Invites Hey, new and budding page admins, are you tired of having to key in all your contacts to increase your fan base? Well, you can stop now. There are two options for importing contacts, and both sound similar at first: Import your email contacts: List them all in a file, upload to Facebook, and they’ll receive suggestions of your page.Provide Facebook with your username and password for any email software or site that you use, and then everyone in the address book will see your page suggestion. You can access the contact importer within the page manager tool. Click on the marketing tab, and then check out the part labeled “tell your fans.” Like you see in the screen shot below, files for uploading need to be in Outlook, Constant Contact or .CSV. A few things about the web mail option: Facebook swears it doesn’t store your password after finishing the import of your contacts.If at first you don’t see support for your particular email application or website, try again in the future.

Stephen Downes: The Role of the Educator How often do we read about the importance of teachers in education? It must be every day, it seems. We are told about "strong empirical evidence that teachers are the most important school-based determinant of student achievement" again and again. The problem with the educational system, it is argued, is that teachers need to be held accountable. The problem with focusing on the role of the teacher, from my perspective, is that it misses the point. Let me tell you how I know this. Each of these has contributed in one way or another to an overall approach not only to learning online but to learning generally. It's an approach that emphasizes open learning and learner autonomy. It's an approach that emphasizes exercises involving those competencies rather than deliberate acts of memorization or rote, an approach that seeks to grow knowledge in a manner analogous to building muscles, rather than to transfer or construct knowledge through some sort of cognitive process.

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook: What's Next? - 60 Minutes If you have a Facebook account, you've probably reconnected with an old pal, shared photos with your family, and gotten advice from your friends on what to buy and what to read. It's pretty likely you logged on today. Lately, the social networking site has been introducing new products - one after the next - with the goal, it seems, of turning the entire Web into one big social network, so eventually the Internet will be Facebook. As if the company wasn't surging enough, the movie "The Social Network" about the creation of Facebook has heightened interest, especially in its 26-yr-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Now Facebook is about to get a facelift, and agreed to launch its new look on "60 Minutes." Correspondent Lesley Stahl went out to Palo Alto, Calif. and sat down with Zuckerberg to discuss his creation, which is used today by a whopping 500 million people in 70 languages all around the world. "When you first thought about this, 19 years old, is this what you had in mind?

¿Cómo será Internet en el futuro? | ESADE Link A esta pregunta trata de responder el informe elaborado por Cisco Systems y Global Business Network (GBN), The Evolving Internet: Driving Forces, Uncertainties and Scenarios to 2025 que analiza las premisas de futuro, los ejes de incertidumbre y los escenarios de la Red de los próximos quince años. El informe presenta tres ejes de incertidumbre –Construcción de redes, Evolución tecnológica y Comportamiento de los usuarios– que determinarán el futuro de Internet, y cuatro escenarios –Palpitante, Inseguro, Decepcionante y Desbordado– que plantean un desarrollo atípico de Internet en comparación con los estudios realizados hasta ahora. El informe pronostica una nueva brecha digital y el aumento del volumen del comercio electrónico. Podéis consultar el texto completo del informe en formato pdf. Para más información sobre el sector podéis consultar el Flash Internet de ESADE Guíame. Be Sociable, Share! Related posts:

How much did ads affect Twitter's 2010 trends? | The Social Twitter just released a year-end list of top trends for 2010, much as search engines like Google and Bing release their top queries . But it's a little different here. Given Twitter's status as a chattery network of rapid-fire conversations, both breaking news stories and pop culture--including, notably, pop-culture phenomena with small, devoted cult followings--dominate the list. Twitter's algorithm for calculating top trends favors "novelty over popularity," meaning that a sudden, unexpected spike from the death of a C-list celebrity may ultimately outrank an ongoing major news story on Twitter's year-end list. But in the rankings, there is also insight into Twitter's own strategy and how some of the products and partnerships it has developed can affect--if not completely alter--conversations across the service. Of course, the majority of entries on Twitter's Hindsight rankings were what you'd expect them to be--news events that sparked discussion on a broad, global scale.

Insiders Ride Social Networking to a Big Payday Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News Reid Hoffman, left, chairman of LinkedIn, and Jeff Weiner, the chief executive, at the New York Stock Exchange on May 19. With the hours ticking down to his company’s stock market debut, Mr. Hoffman dialed into a conference call from San Francisco’s Ritz-Carlton hotel as his chief executive, Jeff Weiner, and a team of bankers raced up from Silicon Valley in a black S.U.V. to meet with potential investors. Demand for shares was intense, and they decided to raise the offering price by $10, to around $45. When trading began on May 19, LinkedIn did not open at $45. Now there are signs that a new technology bubble is inflating, this time centered on the narrow niche of social networking. “The LinkedIn I.P.O. will be used very powerfully over the next year as these companies go public and bankers deal with Silicon Valley,” said Peter Thiel, the president of Clarium Capital in San Francisco and an early investor in PayPal, LinkedIn and Facebook. Mr. Mr.

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