Over Coffee Over Coffee, a new social network built around connecting people over coffee and conversation, has gone live and plans to open bricks-and-mortar coffeehouses in the future to giv... Read more
More connective tissue may make academia more efficient GIVEN journalists’ penchant for sticking the suffix “gate” onto anything they think smells of conspiracy, a public-relations co... Read more
Can an online algorithm track down your child? In some cases, yes — and if you’re a parent, it could alarm you too. Consider the case of Maggie Leifer McGary, mother, blogger and soci... Read more
Over the last month 66,560,159 people have played the Sims Social on Facebook. That is more than double the audience who tuned in for Ashton Kutcher’s recent debut on the hit sitcom “Two and... Read more
Google on Tuesday opened its invitation-only social network, Google+, to anyone who wants to join at google.com/+. Google+ emphasizes privacy — like easily sharing with select groups of sibl... Read more
We’ve been waiting for Delicious founder Joshua Schacter to debut the secret product coming out of his newest startup Tasty Labs. And today the wait is over with the debut of Jig, a Q&A... Read more
What would Facebook look like without photos of drunken nights out and tales of misbehaving cats? It might look a lot like the internal social network at the offices of Nikon Instruments. Th... Read more
The spread of information in social networks, something of crucial importance in awareness and marketing campaigns or the spreading of rumours and viruses, for example, is largely determined... Read more
IN AN ERA DEFINED BY INSTABILITY, SOCIETY MUST REMAIN IMMINENTLY FLEXIBLE AND TURN DISRUPTION INTO A FORCE FOR GOOD Joshua Cooper Ramo, managing director of Kissinger Associates, believes th... Read more
Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long. Read more
Image via CrunchBase In my first post I talked about the history of social networking from 1985-2002 dominated by CompuServe, AOL & Yahoo! In the second post I explored the current era w... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Facebook made oversharing with a small army of friends a mainstream activity. Now, one of its early architects is swinging in the other direction. Dave Morin, who helped... Read more
The lads behind Diaspora, the open source decentralized alternative to Facebook, have announced the public release of its source code to developers. The group of four students from NYU’s Cou... Read more
Image by davemc500hats via Flickr The controversy over Facebook‘s privacy policy is helping those developing alternatives to the social network. Funding and users are flowing to servic... Read more
