::fibreculture:: Facebook group

[Nicholas Roberts]

there are a couple of oss options... specific to education and nowhere near
as advanced
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/elgg.php
http://www.peopleaggregator.net/homepage.php

On 8/9/07, dan mackinlay <dan at possumpalace.org> wrote:
>
> Ah, I would say that facebook has at least one standout feature that
> sets it aside from most social networking fads - it has an open API
> http://developers.facebook.com/
>
> Facebook is, from one perspective, a huge database of social
> relationships and a specialised query language for accessing them.
> Contrast with myspace, which is, in software terms, an inwards-
> looking community, supporting none of the "web 2.0" buzzwords (apart
> from a limited and perfunctory support for RSS). Facebook, on the
> other hand, supports a huge number of methods of accessing its data
> and integrating that data into other applications. There is a
> thriving community of developers showing off their skills in creating
> dizzying numbers of new applications for facebook that excercise the
> facebook API. Facebook data can be integrated into a huge number of
> applications, both server- and client-side.
>
> As to what it is /for/... If you follow Dunbar's argument, that human
> communication is primate social grooming continued by other means
> ( http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/65/bbs00000565-00/
> bbs.dunbar.html ) then i'd argue that this is another form of social
> grooming. That's the best way I've found of making sense of the weird
> allure of the small, almost content-free interactions that
> characterise communication in facebookspace. But it's social grooming
> adapted for the time-poor-studying-full-time-working-part-time
> typical modern student. I'd guess that a role in creating market
> share for facebook has also been played by the slow ongoing death of
> student unions under VSU and the concomitant decrease in formally
> organised student social events.
>
> Not that the market for facebook is purely student-based any longer,
> or we wouldn't be having this chat. Which said, should we perhaps
> continue this chat on the facebook group?
>
> ---dan()
>
> On 09/08/2007, at 11:34 , Mathieu O'Neil wrote:
>
> > omigod omigod omigod ya mean ya don't KNOW - its for SOCIAL NETWORKING
> > OK! - ya need to build a clique and its like totally cool
> > (poor attempt at preppy impersonation)
> > alernatively:
> > its just the latest net fad tom - dont worry about it - unless you are
> > into popularity contests that is
> > ("snark")
> > or:
> > its like LiveJournal except only those approved ("friended") by you
> > can
> > view your information
> > (correct me if I'm wrong)
> > cheers
> > mat
> >
> > On 09/08/2007, at 8:57 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> >
> >> At 11:14 AM 8/08/2007, Lisa Gye wrote:
> >>> Here is a direct link
> >>> http://swinedu.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4143384913
> >>
> >> I joined Facebook, but I have to confess that I still don't
> >> understand what it is for. Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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