Social Networking, Web

Ghosts of Location Based Social Networking Past, Present and Future: Where ...

By Bryan Jones, Nihal Mehta, Dennis Crowley, Martin May

An exploration of the evolution of location-based social networking and how location-based applications will impact the way everyday users interact with the friends and find nearby venues and events. Includes several founders of past and current location-based social networks, including Brightkite, Buzzd, Dodgeball and Moximity.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Using Social Networks for Social Change: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - ...

Social networks are a much-needed platform for personal (re)connection and community-building. With this session, we'll introduce our vision for the next application of the power of Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 communications tools: To cause social change by creating compelling stories and calls to action.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Reality Mining for Companies, or, How Social Networks Network Best: Where ...

By Sandy Pentland

You can't manage what you can't measure...and unfortunately 80% of your businesses' highest-value communication is face-to-face, so you usually don't even know it is happening. But things have changed, and now you *can* see the entire pattern of communication in your company, and the result can be dramatic increases in productivity and creative output.

[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]

Open, Social Web: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...

By David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, Chris Messina

You can’t talk about building for the web without contemplating a coherent approach to enabling and supporting social functionality. This developer-oriented workshop will emphasize the use and application of free, open building blocks for enabling social networking features on your site or service, and provide illuminating insights from some of the key figures creating these technologies.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

The Whuffie Factor: The 5 Keys for Maxing Social Capital and Winning with ...

By Tara Hunt

Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. And they’ve heard about someone who has used them to grow a huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grass roots and interactive. But what does this mean? And how do you do it? The Whuffie Factor will provide the strategic map and specific tactics for success in the world of online communities.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Building Sites Around Social Objects : Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - ...

By Jyri Engestrom

Successful social sites are not just friend networks. They are built around objects that connect people with shared interests. But turning an idea into a shareable object is not always so simple. We'll ask What makes a good social object? This talk will deconstruct the social objects and verbs on which well-known successes and exciting new startups are built on.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

W3C Hosts Workshop on Social Networking - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

Social Networking and Community 2.0 have both become critical parts of the web infrastructure, so it is perhaps not surprising that the W3C, keeper of all things web, is now weighing in on the topic. On January 15-16, 2009, the W3C will host the Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, Spain, where it will pull together vendors, project leaders, and social networking experts to explore the ramifications that social networking has for the web, and whether the W3C should establish a formal working group dealing with Social Networking related issues.

[Publish Date: January 13, 2009]

Facebook: The Missing Manual -- New from O'Reilly Media: Finally! A Missing ...

Sebastopol, CA--Facebook, the stratospherically popular social networking site, combines the best of blogs, online forums, photo sharing, and playful applications, to help people connect with their friends who work, study, and live around them. No longer...

[Publish Date: January 23, 2008]

Riding the Social Networking Wave to Democratize Book Distribution and ...

By Krishna Motukuri, Mike McGuinness

Author Storefronts, Widgets and Social Networking Apps, Oh My! "This panel discussion will feature Krishna Motukuri, SVP at Lulu.com,and weRead founder discussing how POD advances made self-publishing a viable alternative to the traditional publishing model – giving authors more control over their book's future.

[Publish Date: February 09, 2009]

Speaker: Clara Shih: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Clara Shih joined salesforce.com (link: https://salesforce.com) in 2006 and is responsible for Enterprise Social Networking Alliances and Product Strategy. Previously, she was the product line director of AppExchange, salesforce.com's online business applications marketplace, for which she led the development of the Checkout payment services for partner applications. Independently, Clara developed Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce) in 2007, the first business application on Facebook. Clara is the author of a new book, The Facebook Era (Prentice Hall), about how online social networks are transforming customer relationships and what sales and marketers must do to adapt and succeed.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Graphing Social Patterns Conference Debuts on East Coast: Social Networks ...

Sebastopol, CA--Following its tremendous success in California the past year, the O'Reilly Graphing Social Patterns (GSP) conference debuts on the East coast this summer. GSP East occurs June 9 through 11 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Washington...

[Publish Date: March 27, 2008]