Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

10 reasons Facebook’s future is uncertain
Its own users have very little trust in the company
The site’s ease-of-use is among the worst on the web
The user experience doesn’t translate well to smar ...
... atural cycle of social networks

86th Birthday Rage

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

A meta-study carried out by the American Psychological A... claimed that playing computer games has many positive ef... and, in some cases, the more violent the game the more b... effect.
The research, published in the latest issue of American ...

A SUICIDAL teen was miraculously saved after one of his ...
The 16-year-old boy from Oxford had sent a private messa ...
The girl then alerted her mother who contacted local pol ...
UK cops then searched electoral roll websites and found ...
... ort but

ABU DHABI // A dramatic fall in traffic accidents this w... directly linked to the three-day disruption in BlackBerr...
In Dubai, traffic accidents fell 20 per cent from averag ...

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of... discovering a bookmark or a publication on the web, you ... our server. You can add tags to your post to retrieve it... is very similar to the bookmarks/favorites that you stor... browser. Th

Can we just stop for a second and appreciate that in gro... people want to be good, and moral and right? For a shini... moment, the internet was at its moral best.

Cellphone users who attempt to install the Facebook Mess... to agree to terms of service that allow the social netwo... the microphone on their device to record audio at any ti... permission.

Charlie Brown Wah Wah Wah
I used to read a woman’s blog, everyday. It was amazin ...
I can only guess that the last entry, before the blog go ...

Cultural anthropologists who have studied teen texting a... just about instant gratification. According to Mimi Ito,... cellie habits of Japanese teens, texting those who could... everyone feel they're part of a larger social network. I... no distinct

Dive into OpenID
There are a lot of great guides to getting started with ...
* http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
* http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID ...
... are still being discussed and evolved by the community.

Dopplr is a service for smart travellers. Dopplr helps y... your travels by sharing your personal and business trave... with the people you trust. Dopplr shows you coincidences...
1. Add your travel plans
Add trips on the Dopplr site or simply tell Dop

During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we o... steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared b... couple.

Facebook and AOL announced last night a partnership that... user's Facebook friends into their AOL Instant Messenger... came on a day when Google announced its new attempt at c... social attention with Google Buzz and Yahoo! reminded us... outskirts t

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that...
In this pos

Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden int... its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest ... evidence that this is true even for sites which embrace ... technologies is overwhelming, and the net result is that... gaslighting

Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In ... restricted the visibility of a user's personal informati... friends and their "network" (college or school). Over th...
This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a bri ...
Let me be c

Facebook is losing users in the U.S., Britain and Canada... investors, advertisers and media companies all scratchin...
A closer look at Facebook’s global usage shows that it ...
In Pictures: Keeping Kids Safe On Facebook
That said, there is one simpl

Facebook OpenGraph and Social plugins for WordPress (new...
* Open Graph Social Plugins (New!), like, activity a ...
* Build a community
* Login using your Facebook account
... * Facebook user email store

Free social software
* Dutch
Share information quickly and easily with Dutch; o ...
* Roundhouse
... A collaborative networking suite.

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pag... and music that your friends and family are sharing. It o... to discover and discuss information among friends.
Sign up for FriendFeed, invite some friends, and get a c ...

Habitat is a trendy furniture store, set up by Terence C... for those who’ve never been to the UK its like a sligh... version of Ikea. @HabitatUK turned up on Twitter a coupl... decided to use trending topic #hashtags at the start of ... noticed. Th

How Google accidentally built a truly beloved social net... steamroll it with Google+. The sad, surprising story of ...