Category Archives: Social Networks

The Future of the Social Network According to IBM

Posted on October 7, 2010 by GilPress

Last night I saw the future of social networking at the IBM research center for social software. The open house, part of the FutureM events this week in Boston, showcased 11 experimental applications:  New ways to enhance collaboration over the … Continue reading →

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InfoStory Quant: Social Networks, the New TV?

Posted on September 28, 2010 by GilPress

The number of people on social networks grew by 8% in the US in the past year (metro China 18%; Europe 11%) according to a new report today from Forrester Research. But there was no growth in the number of … Continue reading →

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InfoStory Quotes: THE Social Network

Posted on September 27, 2010 by GilPress

“I don’t believe that [Facebook] has brought us closer together. I think it’s pushed us farther apart.’’ —Aaron Sorkin, Scriptwriter, The Social Network “The whole premise of the site is that everything is more valuable when you have context about … Continue reading →

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Zuckerberg for President?

Posted on September 26, 2010 by GilPress

The film The Social Network portrays Harvard’s “social apartheid,” in the words of the Guardian: “an elaborate series of crosscuts shows the gulf the nebbishy group of hackers and the rich-kid decadence of high Harvard society, with its “final clubs” … Continue reading →

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This Day in Information: The Social Network, 1979

Posted on September 24, 2010 by GilPress

Today in 1979, 5 years before Mark Zuckerberg was born, CompuServe launched one of the first consumer online services, initially marketed as MicroNET through Radio Shack. By the mid-1980s, CompuServe was the largest consumer information service in the world due … Continue reading →

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Rapid spread of information vs. behavior change

Posted on September 9, 2010 by GilPress

MIT’s Damon Centola: “The networks that make information spread more quickly actually make behavior spread more slowly.” The “Strength of weak ties” (i.e., random networks) does not impact people’s behavior. Conclusion: Twitter good for rapid information dissemination and Facebook good … Continue reading →

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Tom Davenport and Andy McAfee, June 2008

Posted on September 2, 2010 by GilPress

On June 18, 2007, at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, Andrew McAfee, who coined the term in 2006, debated the merits of Enterprise 2.0 with Tom Davenport. Jason Rubin and Gil Press revisited the debate with them a year … Continue reading →

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