“Because most of the targeted employees were male between the ages of 20 and 40 we decided that it would be best to become a very attractive 28 year old female. We found a fitting photograph by searching google images and used that photograph for our fake Facebook profile. We also populated the profile with [...]
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Opening and closing like flowers (social platform roundupathon)
Closing some tabs…
Stephen Fry writing on ’social network’ sites back in January (also in the Guardian):
…what an irony! For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago? Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take [...]
Posted in Activism, FOAF, RDF, Semantic Web, ggg, privacy, quotes Also tagged aol, opensocial, privacy, stephenfry Leave a comment
Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
I’ve lately started writing up and prototyping around a use-case for the “Group” construct in FOAF and for medium-sized, partially private data aggregators like SparqlPress. I think we can do something interesting to deal with the social pressure and information load people are experiencing on sites like Flickr and Twitter.
Often people have rather large lists [...]
Posted in Essays, Image Description, SPARQL, Technology, ggg Also tagged filters, flickr, FOAF, groups, information overload, sparqlpress, twitter, xfn 5 Comments
Hotel Facebook
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!  [...]