Powerful Groups for the New Social Era Quora: Una Red Social para responder tus preguntas Durante el último mes se ha hablado muchísimo de la nueva sensación en Social Media: Quora. Algunos hasta la han calificado como el nuevo Twitter. Quora es una red social basada en un esquema sencillísimo: tú escribes una pregunta, sobre cualquier tema o área de conocimiento y casi de inmediato puedes recibir respuestas de otros usuarios desde prácticamente cualquier parte del mundo. Estrictamente hablando Quora no es nueva, fue creada a finales de 2009 por el ex CTO de Facebook Adam D’Angelo y Charlie Cheever creador del Facebook Connect; se había mantenido en versión beta, accesible sólo por medio de invitación hasta diciembre pasado. Una vez abierta y en gran parte gracias al impulso de un post de Robert Scoble Quora saltó a la fama. ¿Cómo funciona Quora? ¿Por qué tanto ruido sobre Quora? ¿Tiene alguna desventaja? La clasificación de las respuestas se basa en los votos de los miembros, más que en la relevancia basada en algoritmos, como lo hace Google.
chi.mp - All your stuff in one place that YOU own Facebook as a Learning Platform Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? He points us to a Fortune Magazine article that describes a Stanford class being offered by BJ Fogg that studies Facebook as a platform: "Facebook is the most convenient and respectable way to feel connected to friends, get updated on existing friends, find new people, build relationships and express identities." Students, however, seem more interested in cashing out. The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors. Why is Facebook so hot right now? Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. It's mostly some pretty simple activities. What I've found interesting is that I now commonly use LinkedIn to find interesting people, but often use Facebook to communicate with them. So, why is it hot?
Wall.fm - Social Network Builder | Create Social Network Free Ning Fails at Free Social Networking | Epicenter Ning co-founder Marc Andreessen promised Ning network creators they would be able to port their networks elsewhere. Now, they may have good reason to do so. Ning, a brainchild of Netscape bazillionaire Marc Andreessen that was designed to let anyone make a social network about anything for free, won’t do it anymore. Each of the service’s 2.3 million networks’ users will disappear unless its creator either pays Ning or migrate the network to another platform. So much for “free” as the future of business — as far as Ning goes, anyway. The company accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, and they apparently want more of a return than Ning is able to provide as a free service. We are going to change our strategy to devote 100 percent of our resources to building the winning product to capture this big opportunity. Once again — see Tripod, Imeem, etc. — users of a web service have had the rules switched on them once they began relying on a service. There will be now. See Also: