What’s So Great About Online Social Networking?

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/09/26/Up_Close_and_Personal_Share_Your_Life

Co-founders of social networking sites Jaiku, Twitter and Dopplr discuss the benefits of online social networks.

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“Up Close and Personal: Share Your Life,” featuring Jyri Engestrom, Biz Stone, Raymond Spanjar, Felix Peterson, and Matt Biddulph, with moderator Linda Stone.

Where are you? What are you doing? Simple questions, simple answers, essential to our social existence. Twitter, Jaiku, Plazes, Dopplr and Hyves help us to share our lives with friends, family, anyone, anywhere. This session explores our existence and contact in an always-’on’ world.- PICNIC

Jyri Engestrom is co-founder of jaiku.com, a mobile social software startup. He is also Founder and Vice-Chairman of Aula Network, a nonprofit to advance the vision of a creative society. Jyri incubated start-ups at Tera Group, a venture capital partnership, and co-founded ShiftControl, an online recruiting company based on friend-to-friend referrals. Prior to that he worked as a Concept Designer at Satama Interactive, where he co-led the design of Nokia.com. Jyri is working on a Ph.D on innovation at the Management School at Lancaster University, UK. He holds a Master’s degree in sociology from the University of Helsinki. He maintains a weblog at zengestrom.com.

Biz Stone is co-founder of Twitter, Inc and also helped make Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. Biz sometimes writes books about what people are doing on the Internet. Interested in what he is up to? Follow his Twitter trail at twitter.com/biz, or read his blog at www.bizstone.com.

Matt Biddulph is a creative technologist who works with companies like Nature, Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream. He is also the CTO of Dopplr, a social network for frequent travellers.

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86rishabh said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

EZDIA is also a …
EZDIA is also a networking site where you Signup and Start Earning ,
as well as you can create your own Knowledge Bucket and Post content
and get Paid for that.

GOOGLEJUSTINO said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

make money w/ your …
make money w/ your twitter account! msg me 4 the link

cecilia8701 said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

eZdia is a …
eZdia is a networking site like linkedin. But unlike linkedin it allows users to update their resumes i.e skills in the knowledge bucket pool. If you develop or learn new you skills one has to simply update them in the knowledge bucket and the new skills will be added to the already existing ones.

halopunkdud3 said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

only “social …
only “social network” i use it xfire, and i guess youtube if you would consider it a social network, because it kinda is.

stickystuff32 said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

I have stopped …
I have stopped using sites like twitter, each ‘droplet’ of info is recorded. these sites are all scanned. Also if you use an encrypted pc from ibm/ microsoft with its ‘cool’ print recognition system , it can track everything . if innocent and not worth monitoring it is stored or sold to consumer and advertising companies.

EyeCatchNews said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

I have found a new …
I have found a new p2p network called Global Herald Network that let people share information with peers all over the world. If you have a question, an opinion or something you want to promote, you can post it on the network with the free client software Herald for peers to find and read. A person only need to make 1 post to reach everyone on the network. This new p2p network is different, and its awesome.

socialnetworkdesign said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

Social Networking …
Social Networking can have many benefits when a network is designed properly. We design many social networks that help businesses work together more efficiently.

sirravi said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

Yes, these services …
Yes, these services has made my personal and professional life better. I use them, Twitter and Jaiku, all the time.

autofied said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

theres definitely a …
theres definitely a benefit of social networking imo- I like ViewMyLife a lot for their photosharing too- i dont know anyone else that lets you upload unlimited photos and media files at no cost, anyone else using it?

logosfabula said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

What do you think …
What do you think about the political/informative side of internetworks? Is it worth the ‘social’ prefix?
Thanks

pennilesscripple said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

also a travesty of …
also a travesty of the use of the word ‘alchemy’

GermanExceptionalism said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

I am so glad I …
I am so glad I don’t belong to the generation using these services….We could all benefit from more time alone contemplating, reading books etc.

pennilesscripple said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

agreed

we tend to …
agreed

we tend to glamorize/romanticize the connections that happen online. at the very best they lead to meeting real people and forging real connections, but that is rare.

it’s used for ‘networking’ for our ‘careers’ or for our lives as consumers–that’s the ‘value’ as the speaker says

work/consume/work/consume/work/consume….

teemuruskeepaa said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

Really? I was …
Really? I was afraid of that based on the heading and now refuse to watch the video. The word social networking in a new and great context is a lie because it has not been done, not in the Internet nor in the society. ForaTV, think please.

pennilesscripple said in March 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm    

so the ‘magic’ of …
so the ‘magic’ of social networking is that it helps us be better consumers…i feel ill….

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