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Steve O'Hear is a London-based consultant, educator, and journalist, focussing on the Internet and all aspects of digital technology. He advises businesses and not-for-profit organisations on how to exploit the collaborative and publishing opportunities offered by the Web, and has written for numerous publications including The Guardian and Macworld. Steve...- more about Steve O'Hear »
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- "Quarterlife" exclusive to MySpaceTV
- MySpace has bagged itself some more professionally-produced online video content, to "air" exclusively on the social networking site. "Quarterlife", a production developed by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, creators of the TV shows "My So-Called Life" and "Thirtysomething", will debut on MySpaceTV on November 11. ...
- Tags: Social Networking, Video, MySpace, Quarterlife, Social Networking Site, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Propeller.com - Netscape's digg-experiment lives on
- Despite being given notice of eviction at Netscape.com, AOL's social news site -- the so-called "Digg-clone" started by Jason Calacanis -- will soon get a new name and new home at Propeller.com. Talk of the "dead pool" was a little premature it seems. Having...
- Tags: Netscape Communications Corp., News Site, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- A two-track mind: sharing data, now and later
- This is Ben Werdmuller's second report from the Data Sharing Summit in Richmond, CA, which aimed to address the issue of interoperability between social networks. Part one can be found here. Ben is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social networking framework....
- Tags: Social Networking, Network, Service Provider, Data Sharing, Ben, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Learning to share: lessons from the Data Sharing Summit
- This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social networking framework. This is his first report from the Data Sharing Summit in Richmond, CA, which aimed to address the issue of interoperability between social...
- Tags: Social Networking, Network, Data Sharing, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
- Preempting the Data Sharing Summit kicking off tomorrow which aims to address the issue of interoperability between social networks, Marc Canter and co. have published the first draft of a proposed Bill of Rights for participants on the social Web. The idea of the "bill" is to push forward an...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Network, User, Bill, Data Portability, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Nescape's "digg" experiment put on hold; old-style portal returns
- TechCrunch has predicted it for weeks, and despite consistent denials from AOL's management, the new digg-style Netscape.com will be no more. Instead the site will soon be switched over to a more traditional portal, a preview of which can be seen here. Announcing the decision on the...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Netscape Communications Corp., Portal, Nescape, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- How Facebook's "public search listing" could empower users
- With news that Facebook is adding a public-facing (i.e. no need to log-in) "people search" function, that -- in approximately one month's time -- will be "spidered" by public search engines, including Google, it's clear that the so-called social utility is one step closer to reaching its ambition to become...
- Tags: Facebook, Search Listing, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart; MySpace kills startup; Are "events" sites dead?; Facebook users force HSBC into a U-turn
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart. Yahoo is currently seeking feedback from students on a new social network called "Kickstart" which aims to connect college students...
- Tags: Social Networking, Job, Facebook, Network, Yahoo! Inc., MySpace, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
- LinkedIn vs Facebook (round two)
- Inside Facebook reports on the discovery of a couple of new functions in Facebook Platform's API (the set of hooks provided by Facebook for third-party developers building their own applications) which hint at additional features, which could put Facebook in much more direct competition with professional networks such as LinkedIn,...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, LinkedIn, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- "MySpace Fashion" launches
- After over a year of existing in "Beta" status, MySpace has launched a revamped version of its fashion community, dubbed "MySpace Fashion", to co-inside with start of next week's New York Fashion Week. As with the official MySpace communities for music and film, MySpace Fashion is hoping to build on...
- Tags: Brand, MySpace, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- "Appmrkt" wants to be the eBay for Facebook apps
- Facebook apps are all the rage these days, with existing web services rolling Facebook versions of their offerings, as well as developers creating dedicated Facebook-only applications. And already a number of the latter have gone onto be acquired by larger startups, either for the application's functionality, number of users, or...
- Tags: Facebook, eBay Inc., Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- $3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV; Windows Live Messenger comes to Bebo; New York Times launches personalized start page; Playboy creates social network for students
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… $3 million "Afterworld" debuts on MySpace TV. In what could be the most expensive online video production to-date, "Afterworld", an animated series about a man who wakes up to find...
- Tags: Social Networking, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger, Network, IM, Microsoft Windows Live, New York Times Co., Microsoft Windows, TV, Playboy, MySpace, Social Networking Site, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Twitter adds search; MTV adds Twitter
- Silicon Valley's favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter, has upgraded its service by adding "people search". The new feature is designed to make it easier to find people that you want to follow, by enabling you to search user profiles by name, location, bio, and url. A long overdue capability that is...
- Tags: Twitter, MTV, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Facebook wants to be your email client too
- I've moaned before about the way Facebook will send you an email every time a Facebook user sends you a message, but that the site still requires you to log-in to actually read the message. Other systems, such as Basecamp, print the message in the email too. Although, replying...
- Tags: Facebook, E-mail Client, E-mail, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Google aims to solve Social Netwoking fatigue, one friend at a time
- Every time you join a new social network (which, as a blogger who's pitched regularly on the subject, I could do almost every day), why is it that you have to start over by inviting or connecting with your friends each time? Instead, would it not make more sense if...
- Tags: Social Networking, Google Inc., Facebook, Network, Data, Site, Friend, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Has Facebook abandoned privacy?
- Yesterday I blogged about Facebook RSS feeds, where I made an assumption that the only feeds available were ones that displayed information which individual users of the social networking side had designated as public. Boy was I wrong. Fellow ZDNet blogger, Denise Howell, having taken the time to fully explore...
- Tags: RSS Feed, Facebook, RSS, Privacy, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- RSS feeds on Facebook
- Dave Winer has "discovered" the existence of RSS feeds on Facebook. Although, as many have pointed out through comments left on TechCrunch's subsequent coverage, these are in fact somewhat limited and nothing new. On the other hand, if more developers make use of the feeds that are available, and in...
- Tags: RSS Feed, Facebook, RSS, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Bebo overtakes MySpace in the UK
- Comscore data for July reveals that Bebo is now the number one visited social networking site in the UK, overtaking MySpace. Sitting in third place is Facebook. According to the statistics, Bebo registered a total of 10.7m unique users ahead of MySpace which has 10.1m and Facebook with 7.6m.Bebo is...
- Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, U.K., MySpace, Bebo, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- "I am an A-list blogger"; bmindful, a social network for positive affirmation users
- Readers of this blog will already know there exists a social networking site for almost every interest, activity, group or demographic. So why not one for positive affirmation users? "bmindful" is described as a positive affirmation community, and the site enables users to create a profile based around their own...
- Tags: Social Networking, Network, Site, Blogger, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- FlashFlashRevolution launches widget for bands
- FlashFlashRevolution FFR, the multi-player rhythm-based online gaming site (which has a strong social networking component -- see my earlier profile), has launched a widget designed to help musicians and bands promote their music, while at the same time allow more people to discover the fun of playing FFR's online...
- Tags: MySpace, Music, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
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