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Title:

Friends And Following Has Flaws

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Organizer:
Josh Babetski, Collective Detective, LLC
Description:
FriendFeed, Twitter and other sites rely heavily on the content generated by each user's sphere of influence to maintain the activity on the site, keeping exposure relatively small compared to what's "out there." We'll discuss some ways to increase that sphere and find new and interesting things in the "long tail."
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is a "friend-of-a-friend?"
  2. What are some issues created by friend-of-a-friend model?
  3. What's the "long tail?"
  4. Why "everyone" pages really aren't an ideal solution for finding new things and people?
  5. What about "noise?" Too much information isn't good either.
  6. What are we missing by following "A-listers" on social sites?
  7. What are some examples of communities which are not dependent on FOAF?
  8. What's the typical friend model on social sites?
  9. What are the options for the user who wants to use a community but not be part of a community?
  10. What about online cliques? How to not need the "cool kids."
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Community / Social Networks
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Mark Schmulen
on 13/8/08
Sounds like a much needed panel. I would be interested to learn how to discover additional information/content related to subjects first introduced through sites like Twitter as well as how we can take a conversation beyond the relatively closed loop.
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