About Drupal for Facebook:
(from the Drupal project page)
This set of modules and themes turns Drupal into a platform for developing Facebook Applications.
With Drupal for Facebook, you can harness all the power of Drupal in your Facebook App. If you already have content in Drupal, you can expose it on Facebook.
The Drupal for Facebook philosophy is that the functionality already built into Drupal should be used to create Facebook Applications. Where possible, we use Drupal’s user management, permission schemes, blocks, views, etc. to implement the Facebook App. Experienced Drupal users will find it very straightforward to build a Facebook App. While Facebook developers new to Drupal may want to spend some time on Drupal.org learning best practices.
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Hiitch is a desktop social networking platform. It’s open source. You can actually download the source and create you own private social network with others you invite.
I’m still new to Hiitch so I’m still exploring its functionality, but it looks very exciting. I will definitely post updates as I get more accustomed with Hiitch’s social networking functions and others features.
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What is ShiftSpace?
This is one of the most interesting applications of social network that I’ve seen in a while. Instead of operating on a completely separate domain, like MySpace, ShiftSpace allows the entire internet to be included in the landscape that forms the ShiftSpace network. This means that ShiftSpace users can interact in real ways with existing viewpoints, discussions, and events that are actually occurring throughout the world. This makes ShiftSpace more relevant than any closed system could be.
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Chrysi Philalithes published a social media strategy article on promoting vs participating.
Abbey Klaassen writes about marketers using social networks for CRM instead of ads. CRM & social networks seem like a perfect match.
The Second Life Insider reported today that the Second Life grid was experiencing large problems:
At 8:00AM SLT (US Pacific) this-morning, with 37,419 users logged into the Second Life grid, something began to go wrong. Reports began coming in of teleportation problems, difficulties accessing inventory, search failures, and difficulties logging in.
In a recent update, Linden Labs claims to have solves the issues.
dan gluckman
in F8, Platform, Media 2.0, Corporate Failure, Framework, Open Source, Widgets, Strategies, MySpace, SPAM, Social Networking
Update: MySpace scores Coke money by blindfolding users
MySpace has openly displayed a blatant lack of concern for user safety by installing those msplinks.com redirects . In case you need a quick refresher, MySpace has installed software that forces every outbound link (links to other sites) on any MySpace.com pages to filter through the domain msplinks.com. Each link is then redirected to the original destination.
One very dangerous effect of these redirects is evident.
The msplinks.com redirects unquestionably make MySpace users even more susceptible to fraud, phishing, viruses, and other shady dealings.
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Some of you may already know that Open Academic first released DrupalED on April 20th. But yesterday they released an improved version (available for download through that link).
You can visit check out a live DrupalED installation to see how it’s set up. It’s podcasts, wikis, groups, FOAF functionality, bookmarks…. plus any other functionality available through the hundreds of contributed Drupal modules.
I’m very excited about this. If anyone has a DrupalED site setup that they want to showcase, please let us know in the comments. Thanks!
dan gluckman
in Platform, Media 2.0, Corporate Failure, Friendster, F8, Development, Social Networking, Strategies, Open Source, Framework, Facebook
Mark Glaser wrote an interesting post that discussed whether social networking sites such as Facebook need to spend money on marketing & advertising. In the post, he states that the growth of social networking sites is ‘friend-driven’. From his post:
And the social networking sites are truly friend-driven and friend-powered. They don’t need to spend money on marketing, because they have the power of friends who cajole other friends to join in, who then tell 10 friends, who tell 10 friends, and so on.
I certainly agree that people enable the value of social networking sites to be fully realized. Social networking doesn’t work without the critical mass of social people.
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eConsultancy mostly caters to the UK market, but they actively release white papers on topics such as search marketing, online community building, affiliate marketing, ecommerce, mobile, analytics, and a slew of other best practices which are highly relevant to the internet industry of the US and other countries also.
Their recent release of internet statistics covers the following subjects:
1. Usage and Demographics
2. E-commerce
3. Online Marketing
4. Multi-Channel Marketing / Commerce
5. Site Performance and User Technology
6. Mobile – UK Market
7. Interactive TV – UK Market
It’s available for download on their site (non-members can still download a section of the report for free) They also offer a huge collection of free reports on the internet industry regardless of site membership status.
Application name: FaceDouble
This F8 app is based on an existing website, FaceDouble.com. The service allows you to make comparisons between submitted photos that are look-a-likes for celebrities. You can submit photos from web or mobile.
Facebook directory listing:
http://apps.facebook.com/facedouble
App development time: seven days
Submission process / growth schedule
Submitted to Facebook: Saturday
Approved: Sunday
Adoption Rate: installed by 716 users on Monday (at time of this post)
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