Over 50s invading social networking sites?

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Social Computing, Social Networking, facebook, myspace | No Comments »

If you think that social networking sites like myspace and facebook are only for today's youth, think again. According to a Slashdot post, which links to the full article, the poorly dubbed "Silver Surfers" are utilizing social networking sites to ...

Campaign 2.0

Friday, October 19th, 2007 Posted in Social Networking, google video, politics, yahoo video, youtube | No Comments »

This year we've seen a lot of push from candidates to incorporate social networking into their campaigns, either to appear hip, or to truly connect with the web 2.0 folks. The big problem seen by the youtube and similar debates ...

Quality of information not dependent on user type says researchers.

Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Posted in Social Computing, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Wikipedia | No Comments »

Researchers at Dartmouth College "examined Wikipedia authors and the quality of Wikipedia content as measured by how long and how much of it persisted before being changed or corrected." and found that the quality of the contributions was not negatively ...