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[The Social Times] As my life has become increasingly reliant on the good health of the “social web economy”, I’ve thought more and more about how the money is flowing. When the Facebook platform launched, many suggested that it was simply venture capitalists paying money to other venture capitalists as a large application install economy ensued.
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[Facebook Trending » Facebook Overload] A More Mature Facebook: There were small developers that have been pushed to the limits on resources and the reality is beginning to set in that they are locked into the Facebook platform. While the next shiny object (the iPhone) is gaining their attention, it is unfortunately out of reach for many.
[Caught in the Web] Blame the Internets: It is undoubtedly the case that the traditional print news industry has been most-affected by the Internet and the explosion of bloggers that are now doing their jobs for much cheaper (sometimes for free) and faster than they ever can, thought sometimes not as well. The response from the newspaper industry was to engage in a war of cultural values, which, as some of them are now finding out, was hyper-defensive and ineffective.
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[thebankaccounts.com weblog] Social Capital: Though Bourdieu might agree with Coleman that social capital in the abstract is a neutral resource, his work tends to show how it can be used practically to produce or reproduce inequality, demonstrating for instance how people gain access to powerful positions through the direct and indirect employment of social connections. Robert Putnam has used the concept in a much more positive light: though he was at first careful to argue that social capital was a neutral term, stating “whether or not [the] shared are praiseworthy is, of course, entirely another matter”,[5] his work on American society tends to frame social capital as a producer of "civic engagement" and also a broad societal measure of communal health.[6] He also transforms social capital from a resource possessed by individuals to an attribute of collectives, focusing on norms and trust as producers of social capital to the exclusion of networks.
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[Top21cprof's Weblog] Hobby and interest can reap gold: The website is free to use and allows users to join one or more networks, such as a school, place of employment, or geographic region in order to easily connect with other people in the same network. The name of the website refers to the paper facebooks that depict members of a campus community that some American colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.
[Regularblackguy's Weblog] Regular Black Guy Post July 21, 2008: In its complaint, Facebook accused StudiVZ of copying entire portions of the sites design, including features such as Facebooks distinctive “wall”, which allows users to leave messages on each others profile pages. Facebook reportedly claims that any differences between the two sites are “nominal,” and accuses StudiVZ of merely “replacing Facebooks blue colour scheme with a red one.”
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