Social Search: One Step Closer- March 31, 2004 Google is now one step closer to social search, with the introduction of a Google Labs demo for Google Personalized, a search service that considers your individual profile when ranking search results. This type of search was inevitable, and will go a long to improving the search results. The next step to take into account the searcher's profile in social networking context, considering not just my own profile, but also the profiles of those whom I interact with. Ideally, social search would...http://www.markcarey.com/web-dawn/archives/discuss-social-search-one-step-closer.html Social Network Email Spam Filters- March 22, 2004 As email spam continues to grow, the use of "whitelisting" is a growing technique. The opposite of blacklisting, whitelisting entails the creation of a list of email addresses from which you are willing to accept email. Used by itself, this technique is extremely successful in preventing spam, but it has obvious problems: 1) You have to constantly update your whitelist, and 2) you can never receive email from people who don't know you (yet). There are a number of techniques to address.http://www.markcarey.com/web-dawn/archives/discuss-social-network-email-spam-filters.html Smart Mobs: Book Review- March 21, 2004 I know that I may be late to the game on this one, but I recently finished reading Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold. Prior to reading the book, I had been thinking a lot about the potential for peer-to-peer (P2P) social networks to become the successful model of the "online" social network. Reading the book helped solidify my thoughts in this area - and expanded the scope of my thinking to other related areas and possibilities. While there is currently a lot of talk about online...http://www.markcarey.com/web-dawn/archives/discuss-smart-mobs-book-review.html Collaborative RSS Feed Categorization- March 1, 2004 As I posted on Orkut.com about Categorizing RSS Entries: Since this is the Semantic Social Network community, I think semantics is the answer to this one. :) The software should be smart enough to group author-designated categories according the meanings of the words or phrases used to describe them. I also like the way the del.icio.us social bookmarking tool enables user to specify their own tags, which others members of the (social) network can browse. Combine this with a semantics engine and.http://www.markcarey.com/web-dawn/archives/discuss-collaborative-rss-feed-categorization.h... |