So I’ve been using Mastodon a bit for the past few months, and with the latest influx of users via the great Twitter Migration of Late 2022 I thought I’d jot down some of my notes on the platform. I have two active accounts, on different servers: The first thing all new users encounter when… Continue reading Mastodon notes
Tag: Social Networking
Twitter cleaning
I figure I need to clean up my @chuggnutt Twitter account (and probably the @hackbend and @brewsite ones as well). Not that I have an extraordinary number of followers, or people I’m following—522 and 425, respectively—but I realized there’s a fair amount of “noise” on what amounts to my personal Twitter account and there are… Continue reading Twitter cleaning
Ning
By now the geeky part of the blogosphere and, er, web-o-sphere has been rocked by the announcement of Ning two days ago. Check it out. Their one-line description reads “Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications.” What this means is they’re… Continue reading Ning
Friendster goes PHP
An item I saw yesterday but forgot to blog about: Friendster goes PHP. Pretty cool. Finally on Friday we launched a platform rearchitecture based on loose-coupling, web standards, and a move from JSP (via Tomcat) to PHP. The website doesn’t look much different, but hopefully we can now stop being a byword for unacceptably poky… Continue reading Friendster goes PHP
Shakespeare Social Networks
This is an amazing link: Shakespeare Social Networks. PieSpy is a tool designed to infer and visualize social networks on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It works by applying simple heuristics to work out who is talking to whom. This information can be used to produce a visualization of the social network, essentially showing which users… Continue reading Shakespeare Social Networks
Social software again
All the hooplah over Orkut last week got me thinking more about this “social software” phenomenom from sites like Orkut and Friendster. You may remember I’ve ranted about Friendster before. My conclusions at the time were that I could see some value to it, but didn’t know what I could actually do with it. Several… Continue reading Social software again
Social networking backlash
The topic du jour this week in the weblogs I read seems to be backlash against social networking services, particularly Orkut, the new one from Google. Interesting, but it’s not like you couldn’t see it coming. I’ll have more to say on this soon.
More Friendster Notes
I’ve noticed from the referrer logs that my earlier Friendster post is the #3 result on Google for the search phrase “Friendster is slow“, so I figured it was high time I revisited Friendster and poke around a bit more, to see what I could find out. It was still slow, but not as fatally… Continue reading More Friendster Notes
Friendster
I signed up for a new online tool/technology today called Friendster. Maybe you’ve heard of it; it’s “an online community that connects people through networks of friends” for meeting new people. So far I haven’t really figured out what it’s supposed to do for me, because the site is still very much in beta: most… Continue reading Friendster