41 posts tagged gspwest08

A common complaint overheard at the recent Graphing Social Patterns, ETech, and South By Southwest conferences has been that increased friend invites on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter has devalued the word friend. Today, this condition is unique to the the early-adopter, hyper-connected

Last week I attended Graphing Social Patterns West and reported on the sessions that took place down in San Diego. It was a great event with lots of content. After a bit of reflection, these are my top 10 takeaways from the event. Hollywood and Video Game Players were MIA.

Last week I attended Graphing Social Patterns West and reported on the sessions that took place down in San Diego. It was a great event with lots of content. After a bit of reflection, these are my top 10 takeaways from the event. Hollywood and Video Game Players were MIA.

Jia Shen, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RockYou, and R. Tyler Ballance, lead developer of Slide’s Top Friends application, spoke at Graphing Social Patterns West about social application development. Both Jia and Tyler flew through their presentations so I had a hard time keeping up.

Jia Shen, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RockYou, and R. Tyler Ballance, lead developer of Slide’s Top Friends application, spoke at Graphing Social Patterns West about social application development. Both Jia and Tyler flew through their presentations so I had a hard time keeping up.

Google OpenSocial Interview with Platform Developer Advocate Patrick Chanezon. Google rarely does video interviews so I was very excited to have the opportunity to capture this interview with Patrick. Too bad I didn’t keep the camera running for the next 1.5 hours while we continued to chat about all the opportunities for businesses, brands and developers.

Charlene Li's awesome presentation on The Future of Social Networks, from her keynote @ Graphing Social Patterns West: | View | Upload your own

Charlene Li's awesome presentation on The Future of Social Networks, from her keynote @ Graphing Social Patterns West: | View | Upload your own

Photo from Ian Kennedy I love laptop stickers! I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called "activity streams." An activity stream is a feed of recent

Photo from Ian Kennedy I love laptop stickers! I met Ian Kennedy who is the product manager at MyBlogLog, a blogger social network. Here's a summary of his talk at GSP and video. MyBlogLog recently implemented a new feature called "activity streams." An activity stream is a feed of recent