Monthly Archives: August 2007

Playboy Offers its own Social Network

By Michael Becker | Published: August 22, 2007
A quick note on the social net­work­ing front: Playboy is work­ing on its own social net­work­ing site for col­lege stu­dents called Playboy U. The AP reported that it is one of the ways the ail­ing “gentlemen’s” mag­a­zine is try­ing to improve their profits. (You need a .edu address to request an invite, by the way.)
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Social Networks Limit Interaction

By Michael Becker | Published: August 22, 2007
Michael Geist writes for the BBC: Unlike the global inter­net, which enables vir­tu­ally the entire world to con­nect, social net­works have cre­ated very large, localised com­mu­ni­ties with far more lim­ited inter­na­tional interaction.
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Facebook Sharing

By Michael Becker | Published: August 20, 2007
New fea­ture alert: In addi­tion to the shar­ing options on the front page for each arti­cle, which offers an array of var­i­ous shar­ing ser­vices, now when you click on a post’s title to visit its unique page, an option there will allow you to share it on the social net­work­ing site Facebook. (I had to [...]
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An Apology for Andrew Keen

By Michael Becker | Published: August 20, 2007
Note: The link to Wikiscanner has been fixed. I’ve been hard on Andrew Keen, though not as hard as some out there have been, who feel the Web world to be under assault by Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur, and feel an over­whelm­ing need to take Keen to the mattresses. That said, I do [...]
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The Life and Death of Second Life

By Michael Becker | Published: August 18, 2007
I recently wrote an arti­cle for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on Terry Beaubois, an archi­tect from California who is now teach­ing at Montana State University. Beaubois has been involved in com­put­ers and the Internet since the begin­ning. He’s a Silicon Valley native who lived down the street from the garage nerds and bought from Apple [...]
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