Entries Tagged as 'social networking'

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Social Web Pips Porn

Apparently social networks are so hot they are more popular than porn.  As reported by Reuters, Bill Tancer and Hitwise have analysed data from over 10 million users the results of which, Tancer claims, reflects not just what’s happening on-line but also a broader view of people’s behaviour and society.
According to Tancer one of the [...]

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Healthbook, your health data Facebook

The Australia 2020 Summit  over the weekend demonstrated a cultural shift towards social networking frameworks being used as technological solutions for information management infrastructure. 
The Federal Government is considering creating “Healthbook“
‘ …(like Facebook) for Australians to take greater ownership of their health information and electronically share it with people they trust – for example their doctor, nurse or family [...]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Employees choose social networking workplaces

Poking 9 to 5.
Bosses who block access to MySpace and Facebook at work risk losing valuable staff to other companies, new research has found.
Almost half of those who use MySpace and Facebook during work hours say they would refuse a job where they were not allowed access to social networking sites, according to the study [...]

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

‘the Internet has created the greatest generation gap since rock n roll’

As quoted in the documentary Growing up Online aired on SBS last night. It’s about the first generation of children to come of age on the Internet. As some experts and kids point out in the film, adults didn’t grow up in an era when it was culturally acceptable to pour your most private self, or [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2008

The future of Social Networking

 
There is talk that the features of social networking will gradually absorb into everything we do online or possibly be accessed through bespoke personal portals. This means that the future social networking may not be destination dependent and we won’t need to log in to a branded url to connect. Can Facebook, MySpace and Bebo [...]