The Buzz is getting louder about Friendfeed, a social media tool that is rapidly gaining in popularity and is coming into widespread use among many of the early adopters in blogging and technology.
The Friendfeed concept is very simple - pull together a person’s online social networking information from their Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, blogging, Flickr, and other social networks, and make this available to their friends. Adding friends and contacts is easy on Friendfeed - some might say too easy - making it a snap to rapidly broaden your social network and interact with a large number More»

Labels: friendfeed, social graph, social networks

Mahalo, the human-powered search engine where users submit links, and whose Chief Technology Office, Mark Jeffrey, will be presenting tonite at the WebGuild, has announced today that they have launched a social networking component to their search service. Called “Mahalo Social“, it offers features which foster community building amongst users who submit links allowing them to make friends and share links with each other.

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Labels: Search, social graph, Social Search

We will be hoding our next event on the “Social Graph and Search - Impact of the Social Graph on Search and Discovery” on Wednesday, December 12. Headlining the panel discussion will be heavy hitters: Shawn Gold, Former SVP of Marketing & Content at MySpace, Steven Marder, CEO & Co-Founder of Eurekster, Mark Jeffrey, CTO of Mahalo, and Levy Cohen, CEO & Founder of Collarity. Don’t miss it!
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The video for “OpenSocial—High Octane For Widgets & Web Apps” is now available. The session is moderated by Daya Baran, President, WebGuild and features Chris Schalk, Google Developer Programs, Google; Joseph Smarr, Chief Platform Architect, Plaxo; and Akash Garg, Co-Founder/CTO, Hi5 Networks. Check it out!
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Labels: social graph, social media, Youtube

For the uninitiated, I will first explain what the social graph is and why it is so talked about today. Almost all of us are on some social network today. In that network, we are linked with people we know either because we were class mates or are colleagues or neighbors, etc. Now, try to imagine every person as a node in a graph and if two people are connected on a network, it means an edge or line is drawn between those two nodes in a social graph. One instance of it would be the following picture which illustrates More»

Labels: Facebook, opensocial, social graph, Social Networking, social networks