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Who's Qualified to Create Our Social Future?

Does anyone else find it ironic that the people who are creating sites such as Facebook and Twitter, who are shaping so much of our online social experience, are the same people (i.e. computer geeks) who are stereotypically socially inept? Talk about the inmates running the asylum!

Are we being set up for a workable and worthwhile future of social interactions, or are we slowly poisoning our ability to be truly social?

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Trends in Social Networking Usage

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has release a new survey with some stats on how many people are using Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and so on to give status updates to others, or see what other people are up to.

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Could Facebook Have Been Invented Outside the US?

I was just listening to a talk by American novelist Donna Leon, who lives in Venice, Italy, and she said something that made me wonder if Facebook (or MySpace, the place for friends, for that matter) could have originated outside of the US.

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Facebook Learns the Downsides of Software as a Service

The tizzy created by Facebook's page design changes point out some valuable lessons that we should keep in mind as we head more into a SaaS and cloud-based world.

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