Identity 2.0

Financial Times features Twitter on front page, “looks like someone forgot to separate their whites on laundry day”

While the hyperbole around Twitter is hardly news, the Financial Times (FT) front page is a pretty clear signal that Twitter is reaching out being reached out to the masses. (TIME went for it, too, as well as SPIEGEL Online. SPIEGEL, however, as sadly so often, doesn’t get it.) What really made my day, though, […]

John Edwards’ (unofficial) Second Life campaign HQ vandalized

John Edwards was, as far as I know, the first candidate in the U.S. presidential elections with a campaign presence in Second Life (if only an unofficial one). As of yesterday, he’s got another first: His Second Life headquarters became vandalized.
Techpresident.com spoke it over with Jordan Bigel (aka Dire Lobo in Second Life) from InWorld […]

Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribes, podcasted

Quote:
“It’s like this,” I said. “It used to be that the way you chose your friends was by finding the most like-minded people you could out of the pool of people who lived near to you. If you were lucky, you lived near a bunch of people you could get along with. This was a […]

FakeYourSpace

Hire your hotties:
“If you are tired of seeing everyone else with the hottest friends and want some hotties of your own, then this is the place for you. (…) You can pick the hottest looking friends to leave you messages. We have a wide selection of men and women of all ethnic backgrounds.”
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“Are you my friend? Yes or no?”

First Monday features a great paper by Danah Boyd about social networking sites and the concept of friendship, or how the notion of friendship translates online:
““Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to […]

X-mas time, online shopping time

It’s Christmas Time, so it’s online shopping time, so it’s ask-the-online-nerd-of-your-choice-for-online-shopping-advice time. And while I don’t mind playing the guide there, it also means that at times I have to give advice in areas I know virtually nothing about. So when a U.S.-based friend asked for good places to buy a digital camera, I basically […]