Social Mashup

I’ve previously written about ratios and authority on Twitter and I wanted to expand on the specific issue of a ‘retweet’. Retweets make sense as the follower / following structure of Twitter means that one message does not necessarily travel far into the depths of Twitter. A retweet pushes that message to the followers of the retweeter – and so on as it passes through more of the interwoven following / follower circles. So retweet = ‘pass it on’ and might well indicate interesting / viral content.

Phew! that was a mouthful.

So what’s wrong with using number of retweets as a measure of a user’s authority? ..Continue reading..

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“Who Loves Ya Baby?”

On February 1^st 2008, Google announced the release of the Social Graph API a project aimed at unifying the fragmentation of multiple online identities (for example personal presences on LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook, Digg et. al.) and starting to make sense of relationships between people, intelligence implicit in links, networks, subscriptions etc. Interestingly Plaxo, a site that uses “Pulse Stream” to bond personal activities across a multitude of Web2 sites has been very quick to get involved. Plaxo’s model and eagerness provides something of a playground for Google and might explain the relative closeness of the two on this initiative. ..Continue reading..

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