Category Archives: Social Software

Draft OR10 Challenge idea

Posted on April 26, 2010 by paulwalk

Please note that what follows is a draft. A few weeks ago I posted some thoughts about a Developer Challenge for OR10, with a plea for ideas for specific challenges. I’m pleased to say that this post got a really … Continue reading →

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HEIs Get Facebook Fever (again)

Posted on June 14, 2009 by paulwalk

Facebook rolled out its ‘usernames‘ function today. This is a new feature at Facebook which allows a user to claim their little bit of the Facebook namespace, along the lines of: http://www.facebook.com/[preferred_name]/ The process started at 05:00 am UK local … Continue reading →

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Anything you quote from Twitter is always out of context

Posted on March 6, 2009 by paulwalk

Brian Kelly posted Twitter Can Pimp Up Your Stuff – But Should It? a while ago. This post has caused me to think about courtesy and good practice. The aspect I want to talk about is Brian’s reporting of a … Continue reading →

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OpenID and name authority

Posted on January 22, 2009 by paulwalk

In his Science in the Open blog Cameron Neylon has written an interesting post, A Specialist OpenID Service to Provide Unique Researcher IDs? in which he asks: Good citation practice lies at the core of good science. The value of … Continue reading →

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I think I might be allergic to lists and awards

Posted on December 11, 2008 by paulwalk

Warning: highly subjective opinion-piece and a plea for enlightenment follows: no useful information imparted here…. A little while ago, my blog got nominated for an award. A single nomination was enough to put it onto a shortlist, made available for … Continue reading →

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Friendship or nothing

Posted on July 18, 2008 by paulwalk

I’ve just been invited in FaceBook to join something called a ‘blog network’. The invitation purported to come from a well-known blogger – someone I’m happy to be associated with. I accepted the invitation, which caused the FaceBook to announce … Continue reading →

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Teenagers and continuous partial attention….

Posted on July 9, 2008 by paulwalk

Via my colleague Brian Kelly’s post, I read Catherine O’Brien’s How the Google generation thinks differently on the Times Online site (Brian gets cited offering advice on parenting in a digital age!). I enjoyed the article, but one sentence in … Continue reading →

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Personal profile portability

Posted on May 18, 2008 by paulwalk

I haven’t minted a TLA for ages – I think I might be the the first to come up with PPP for Personal Profile Portability as a convenient handle to wrap around the current flavour of ‘data portability’ being touted … Continue reading →

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Destination, or workflow component?

Posted on April 19, 2008 by paulwalk

In a recent post, Facebook Or Twitter – Or Facebook And Twitter , Brian Kelly says: …in some circle such use of Facebook is being derided with comments such as “It’s a closed garden“, “Its popularity is on the wane” … Continue reading →

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Twittering about Facebook Fatigue

Posted on February 24, 2008 by paulwalk

The headline to Guy Dixon’s post on vnunet.com is “Facebook user numbers fall in the UK”. The sub-title is: “Social networking fatigue sets in at last”. I don’t think the one follows the other. I think that what we are … Continue reading →

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