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Network effects exploited by Face Book, or why we advertise in Face Book
We think a lot about network effects: the positive externalities caused by greater connectivity. A telephone network with 100 subscribers offers 99 calling opportunities whereas one with 10 subscribers offers only 9. That is why regulators had to fight so hard to ensure seamless interconnection that would give the subscribers on each network [...]
Face-to-face and virtual sociality
Does Facebook make you less social? Not necessarily. Not if you’re American, according to a NYT report.
Hundreds of daily updates come from friends on Facebook and Twitter, but do people actually feel closer to each other?
It turns out the size of the average American’s social circle is smaller today than 20 years [...]
Electronic connectivity: A reason to keep on going
The New York Times has a good piece on the use of Facebook by the elderly and isolated. LIRNEasia qualitative and quantitative research shows that plain old voice telephony and SMS keep people at the BOP connected and keeps them going on.
But Ms. Rice, 73, is far from lonely. Housebound after [...]
Bandwidth hungry but purchasing-power poor
For some time we have been talking about the scarcity and cost of international bandwidth. Looks like it is going to cost people in our part of the world access to sites such as Facebook and YouTube (full article). It appears that distance does matter. And everyone is not actually as [...]
Dangers of facebook hyped?
The Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all.
A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem.
The findings ran counter to popular perceptions of online dangers as reinforced by depictions [...]
Coming to a mobile near you soon: Facebook, Hi5 and Orkut (Now showing mygamma.com)
Mobile social networking is still a small part of the way people use their cell phones, but industry officials expect that use will grow, and not just for teenagers who want to text their friends or send short video clips.
Analysts and network providers said that workers will adopt mobile social networking, following the way social [...]
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