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Introduction
See also Blogs | Ethics and the health librarian | Social networking | Twitter | Web 2.0
Social networking is the practice of making connections with others for professional, educational and/or social purposes. It is possible to distinguish between various types of social networking practices:
- Social awareness sites are typically those such as Twitter and Facebook that aim to keep users current with new information as well as socially-aware
- Social networking sites aid people to create media-rich webpages and manage contacts or "friends" using a web platform. The best known example is Facebook and pioneers were Friendster and MySpace. A variant are platforms to create networks, e.g Ning.
- Social linking platforms promote links between entries describing persons (profiles). A well known platform for professionals is LinkedIn.
Social network sites
According to Danah Boyd, social network sites can be defined through three features: profiles, friends and comments.
Standards
- FOAF - Friend of a Friend, a RDF standard for linking people (for which various applications exist)
- API standards to script platforms like Facebook and Ning (more details needed plus links to other web 2.0 standards)
Examples of social networking platforms
Examples of linking platforms
Examples of platforms to promote exchange
- Ning. "Create Your Own Social Network for Anything". This is quite interesting, also more interested in web 2.0 standardization efforts than Facebook
- Think.com
- Facebook (not just homepages for the idle, it does have some interesting features and networks, including an API)
- youfig
Examples of mashups built on top
One of the problems with social networking is that your friends or yourself are present on different platforms. One way to keep in touch is to use a mashup application that integrates elements (e.g. the latest messages).
- Socialthing.com Quote" See everything that's going on with your friends in all the sites you use ..."
- Pingfm (allows to post message to over 30 different social networks) ... noise multiplier :)
- Hellotxt (same as Pingfm)
- unype is a location-based social platform, and interfaces persons connected to social software (facebook, Ning, twitter, etc.) via google search (See the untype blog).
Institutions and people
- Academia.edu (shows researchers around the world in a 'tree' format, organized according to institution/department; shows interests and you can upload papers).
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