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essay in TIME on weakness of online friendship ties

by Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Barry Wellman

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History of Friendster and discussion of it as a business failure

Technology - smh.com.au

I disagree with some of his points, but well-argued and documented. From: J Comp Mediated Comm, Volume 13 Issue 2 Page 516-529, January 2008 (Full Text)

commentary on ECAR report - student use of technology - The Unofficial Facebook Blog

Clips of Jonathan Abrams on talk shows during the height of Friendster's popularity.

Short, basic interview with Marc Andreessen on Ning and social networks.

Contrasting the styles of Obama and McCain, and debating what the contrasts mean.

"All too frequently, someone makes a comment about how a large number of Facebook Friends must mean a high degree of social capital. Or how we can determine who is closest to who by measuring their email messages. Or that the Dunbar number can explain the average number of Facebook friends. These are just three examples of how people mistakenly assume that 1) any social network that can be boiled down to a graph can be compared and 2) any theory of social networks is transitive to any graph representing connections between people. Such mistaken views result in broad misinterpretations of social networks and social network sites."

discusses Facebook's use in organizing protests, when it works and when it doesn't.

"Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. "

"Your LinkedIn profile is your connection to over 35 million professionals in the business world. Use it to show the world who you are. To help the world find you. "

"It's difficult for some industry observers to see a comeback for MySpace, the large online social network that has seen its popularity flatline and its hipness surpassed by younger sites like Twitter and Facebook in recent months."

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This is YouTube channel for LinkedIn. You may find some of these videos interesting. In addition to the new "linkedIn grad guide," if you click on "most viewed" videos you will see a video from CommonCraft on LinkedIn. (Yayyyy!!)

"This is the official LinkedIn Channel, featuring videos of users, product demos, feature releases and interviews with key team members from LinkedIn's product, design and engineering teams."

newsweek overview of facebook

ScienceDirect - Journal of Public Economics :

good short blogged descriptions of a great panel at ASIST2007