Archive for social networks
How are the different social networks doing in the UK?
Last week I used Google’s search data from the UK to look at the relative popularity of different social bookmarking services. The same can be done for social networks too, and here’s what the data says: Facebook dominates, as expected, though the tail off in search traffic in the UK in the last few months [...]
Yes, people are who they say they are on Facebook
Date: 7 December 2009
Tags: facebook, social networks
One of the reasons I often given people for using Facebook is that overwhelmingly people on it are really who they say they are. Whether it’s in the world of politics, consumer goods, public affairs or one of many others that is under consideration, this feature of Facebook users is often an important advantage over [...]
How will ACT and Facebook sit together?
Date: 27 November 2009
Tags: ACT, facebook, ning, Online politics, sam lockwood, social networks
As we covered earlier this week, the Liberal Democrats now have a new social network – ACT. Unsurprisingly one of the most common comments made since its launch has been, “how does this fit with Facebook?”. The party’s previous decision to have a heavy emphasis on using Facebook, both for its centrally inspired social networking [...]
