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OpenSocial and SocialGraph APIs

2008-02-02T05:20:00.000-08:00

Social networks are creating a high valuable information. Which, in part, is proved by the interest that it awoke in businesses like Google.

Some months ago, Google announced OpenSocial API, a project that try to create a standard way to access that information.

Now Google has announced SocialGraph API. An API which we can access to the currently non-standardized information. Two ways to resolve the same problem ¿aren't it?.
A thing that begins me to frighten is the violation of the privacy, Great Brother and others. With a simple query to the web somebody could know my profile, my favorite web pages, who are my friends, ... Are we not going too far? .... Imagine what our enemies would be able to do with this information.

For more information you can see the folowing article:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/google_social_graph_api.html

No more market research, get real-time feedback!

2008-01-28T00:18:00.000-08:00

I'm reading the following book on Google's management model, "The Google Model: A Management Breakthrough", which I really recommend ;-)

According to Bernand Girard, Google created a community which was a determinant point in its success. For example, by allowing its employees to create their own blogs, Google interacted directly with its more innovative clients, which allowed it to create and adapt the products needed by these clients. As the discussions with the innovators was public this fed through to more imitators and therefore more sales, increasing the areas under both curves in the "Bass diffusion model".

With blogs Google opinions leaders reach ten times more people and increase its reputation. And as is mentioned in the following article, a good reputation allows you to sell more at a higher price: "The value of reputation on eBay: a controlled experiment".

How GWT, Gadget and OpenSocial can help us to create social network apps?

2008-01-24T22:29:00.000-08:00

Didier Girands gives us a practical example of how we can create a social application in half a day. He starts with MyForms (GWT), continue with Google Gadget and finish with OpenSocial.

http://www.slideshare.net/dgirard/javapolis-gwt-gadget-opensocial

What P2P Lending beneath

2008-01-23T14:08:00.000-08:00

Web 2.0 is a new buzz word ¿isn't it?. But not all that glitters is gold. In the next post Echevari gives us another point of view about P2P lending.

http://www.rankia.com/blog/echevarri/2007/07/el-p2p-en-la-intermediacin-financiera.html

Tomatime, open source to create social networks

2008-01-23T07:56:00.000-08:00

Tomatime is a social network which code has been released and it is available to download.

It has a "Web Retrosocial" license ( if you have benefits must be destined to child aid efforts ).

This application is implemented over Ruby on Rails and is created by Flowers In Space.

Samples of Web 2.0 in financial services

2008-01-22T08:20:00.000-08:00

I like the next article because we can see how the web 2.0 is starting to penetrate financial services. The article gives us real financial examples of several web 2.0 core aspects, like RIA or Mashups.

Leveraging Web 2.0 in Financial Services

Developing Web 2.0 in comunity, by Sun

2008-01-22T08:15:00.000-08:00

This is a most technical vision about Web 2.0 of Sun people:

http://jaime.cid.googlepages.com/JC_Web20_OpenSource_WhyFLOSS2007.ppt (spanish)

He talks about used technologies and how Java 5 EE helps to develop this kind of applications.

Pretty complete list of social software (Wikipedia)

2008-01-22T08:00:00.000-08:00

More stuff for our "Live the Web 2.0 experience; practice what you preach".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_software

Other social networks

2008-01-22T05:56:00.000-08:00

...and for completeness, a set of other social networks I don't think we need to spend time on:

Name	Description/Focus	Registered users	Registration
Bebo	General, Popular in UK, Ireland, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands	40.000.000	Open to people 13 and over
Classmates.com	School, college, work and the military	40.000.000	Open
Windows Live Spaces	Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces)	40.000.000	Open
Xanga	Blogs and "metro" areas	40.000.000	Open
Flixster	Movies	36.000.000	Open
Tagged.com	General	30.000.000	Open
Netlog	Formerly known as Facebox.	28.000.000	Open
Reunion.com	Locating friends and family, keeping in touch	28.000.000	Open
Broadcaster.com	Video sharing and webcam chat	26.000.000	Open
Cyworld	Young South Koreans	21.200.000	Open
Friends Reunited	School, college, work, sport and streets	19.000.000	Open
BlackPlanet	African-Americans	16.000.000	Open
imeem	Music, Video, Photos, Blogs	16.000.000	Open
LiveJournal	Blogging	12.900.000	Open (OpenID)
Fotolog	Photoblogging	12.695.007	Open
Mixi	Japan	9.830.000	Invite-only
Gaia Online	Anime and games	9.300.000	Open
Care2	Green living and social activism	8.123.058	Open
Odnoklassniki.ru	General. Popular in Russia	8.000.000	Open
WAYN	Travel and lifestyle	8.000.000	Open to people 18 and older
Multiply	Real world relationships	7.500.000	Open
Hyves	Dutch	5.000.000	Open
Passado	General	4.700.000	Open
Yahoo! 360°	Linked to Yahoo! IDs	4.700.000	Open to people 18 and older, (Yahoo! login)
Flickr	Photo sharing	4.000.000	Open (Yahoo! login)
StudiVZ	University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries	4.000.000	Open
Soundpedia	Music	3.500.000	Open
iWiW	Hungary	3.100.000	Invite-only
Meetup.com	General	2.000.000	Open
CarDomain	Car enthusiasts	1.600.000	Open
Grono.net	Poland	1.350.000	Invite-only
Stickam	Live video streaming and chat.	1.305.051	Open
LunarStorm	Sweden	1.200.000	Open
Nexopia	Canada	1.158.531	Open
My Opera Community	General (blogs, photo albums, forums, groups, etc.)	1.001.798	Open
myYearbook	General	950.000	Open
Student.com	International teens and colleges	850.000	Open
OkCupid	Social networking and dating	800.000	Open
TravBuddy.com	Travel	760.000	Open
Geni.com	Families, genealogy	750.000	Open
tribe.net	General	602.876	Open
Buzznet	Music and pop-culture	550.000	Open
Playahead	Swedish teenagers	530.000	Open
Sconex	American high schools	500.000	Open
IRC-Galleria	Finland	465.000	Open
Gather	Article, picture, and video sharing, as well as group discussions	450.000	Open
CouchSurfing	Hospitality	402.000	Open
DontStayIn	Clubbing (primarily UK)	333.000	Open
Hospitality Club	Hospitality	328.629	Open
Ryze	Business	250.000	Open
LibraryThing	Book lovers	214.425	Open
aSmallWorld	European jet set and social elite	150.000	Invite-only
TakingITGlobal	Social action	145.000	Open
Travellerspoint	Travel	105.000	Open
ProfileHeaven	British teens	100.000	Open
MEETin	General	72.000	Open
MyChurch	Christian Churches	70.306	Open
Sermo	Physicians	40.000	Open only to registered D.O.s and M.D.s in the U.S.A.
Woophy	travel & photography, photo sharing website	23.000	Open
Consumating	Consumeetings	21.000	Open
Wis.dm	Questions and answers about anything and everything	20.000	Open
Sportsvite	Recreational sports	18.000	Open
Passportstamp	Travel	12.000	Open
Frühstückstreff	General	11.600	Open
Advogato	Free and open source software developers	11.000	Open
ANobii	Books	Unknown	Open
Cake Financial	Investing	Unknown	Open
Capazoo	General (blogs, photos, music, videos)	Unknown	Open
Dandelife	Collective narratives or "shared biographies"	Unknown	Open
Dodgeball	Mobile location-based service. Owned by Google.	Unknown	Open
Experience Project	Life experiences	Unknown	Open
Faceparty	General. Popular UK.	Unknown	Open to people 16 and older.
GuildCafe	Online games	Unknown	Open
Jaiku	General. Owned by Google.	Unknown	Open
Joga Bonito	Football (soccer)	Unknown	Open
MOG	Music	Unknown	Open
OUTeverywhere	Gay	Unknown	Open
Phanfare	Family photo and video sharing	Unknown	Open
Pownce	Websites, files, and short updates	Unknown	Invite-only
RateItAll	General (consumer ratings)	Unknown	Open
Searchles	Social search and networking	Unknown	Open
Shelfari	Books	Unknown	Open
Twitter	Micro-blogging, RSS, updates	Unknown	Open
Utterz	Micro-blogging, RSS, Audio updates via mobile device. Reads text messages over the phone.	Unknown	Open
Vox	Blogging	Unknown	Open
WebBiographies	Genealogy and biography	Unknown	Open
Yahoo! Mash	Yahoo's new SNS - Still in beta	Unknown	Invite-only while in beta
Zooomr	Universal photo sharing	Unknown	Open (OpenID)

Spain:

Tuenti: De reciente creación y accesible solo por invitación, ha despertado gran interés y un crecimiento muy acelerado para conectar a jóvenes universitarios y de nivel secundario.

eConozco: se presenta como una herramienta que te permite contactar con miles de profesionales a través de tus conocidos de confianza y donde puedes accede a nuevas oportunidades para desarrollar tu carrera profesional. Fue también adquirida por Xing, fusionandose recientemente con dicha red.

Cielo: parece la red más completa, combina contactos en línea con una comunidad cara a cara donde estos medios se complementan el uno al otro.

Dejaboo.net: que es una red social orientada a la cultura, en la que los usuarios pueden compartir sus reseñas y gustos literarios, musicales o de cine, la cual anuncian que sigue en fase de pruebas.

Qdamos: se anuncia como el nuevo portal para buscar pareja y amigos en Español. El registro y todos los servicios son gratuitos.

Festuc.com: esta es una red social basada en móviles. Festuc te promete que conocerás gente nueva a través de amigos o por cercanía geográfica a través de servicio en el teléfono móvil.
Spaniards: se presenta como la Comunidad de Españoles en el Mundo. Indican que la misión de esta red es ayudar y poner en contacto a todos los españoles que viven en el extranjero, bien sea por motivo de estudios, trabajo o placer, además de a todos aquellos que buscan salir de España, temporal o permanentemente.

Linkara: enfocado hacia las relaciones de amistad, se presenta como la primera red social para conocer gente a través de aficiones y opiniones. Y en cuanto al funcionamiento lo explican de manera muy simple, diciendo.” Expresa tu opinión, conectate con tus amigos, conoce gente nueva”.

Gazzag: es una mixtura entre red social profesional y red social de contactos personales. La apariencia y la usabilidad son bastante buenas y permite la creación de galerías de fotos y blogs, a diferencia de otras redes sociales en español que no lo permiten.

Gentenotable: Otra red de encuentros.

Important Spanish social networks

2008-01-22T05:52:00.000-08:00

And here is a shortlist of social networks in Spain...

Networking Activo: Agrupa a una serie de empresarios y emprendedores complementándose con una revista impresa y distintos eventos presenciales.

Neurona: proclama que su objetivo es para ampliar y mejorar la red profesional de contactos, un espacio virtual en el que interactúan diariamente más de medio millón de profesionales presentes en más 50 sectores productivos y más de 100 de comunidades profesionales. Fue adquirida por Xing, aunque aún no ha sido fusionada.

Important social networks

2008-01-22T04:32:00.000-08:00

Here is a shortlist of social networks I think we should look into...

Name	Description/Focus	Registered users	Registration
MySpace	General. Popular in the USA, UK and Australia.	217.000.000	Open
Habbo	General. Over 31 communities worldwide. Chat Room and user profiles.	82.000.000	Open to people 13 and older
orkut	Owned by Google. Popular in Brazil and India.	67.000.000	Open (Google login)
Facebook	General. Popular in Canada, UK and USA.	58.000.000	Open to people 13 and older.
Friendster	General	50.000.000	Open
hi5	General. Latin American and Asian teens.	50.000.000	Open
LinkedIn	Business	17.000.000	Open
Plaxo	Business	15.000.000	Open
Badoo	General, Popular in Europe	12.500.000	Open to people 18 and over
XING	Business	4.000.000	Open
MiGente.com	Latinos	3.600.000	Open

GWanTed Team

2007-07-12T06:24:00.000-07:00

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