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1-Click and Social Network Patents and a Jet Pack

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In other patent new, Google and Facebook were sued over a social network patent. This was a patent issued in October that apparently has something to do with how people join social networks on mobile phones. I continue to wait patiently to see what the Supreme Court says re: Bilski.

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Facebook As The Ultimate Surveillance Machine

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This episode is a perfect example: an unintended casualty of this weekend’s firestorm is the idea of data portability: I have argued that social networks like Facebook should make it trivial to export your network; it seems far more likely that most social networks will respond to this Cambridge Analytica scandal by locking down data even further.

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Bolster and the Next Executive Network

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If you are involved in any organizations I’ve helped create, such as Energize Colorado , you’ll immediately recognize the network model underlying them. For me, a network is very different than a social network such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Happy Birthday, I’m Unfriending You

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Since then I’ve been systematically modifying my social networking behavior and cleaning up my various social graphs. I made two major changes to the way I use various social networks. I check Meetup.com daily, but the only email notifications I get are for Boulder Is For Robots.)

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Hertling’s Equation

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I always find what he’s chewing on to be interesting and in this case he’s playing around with doing a Drake’s Equation equivalent for social networks. Social networks actually have a more rigorous form of that law: “the value of a social network is proportional to the square of the number of connected friends.”

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Harry Stebbings on the Give First Podcast

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When he was 13, Harry watched “The Social Network,” the movie about Facebook, and it inspired him to become an entrepreneur and investor. Harry is probably best known for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC , the world’s largest media asset in venture capital, with over five million downloads per month.

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Will A Different Approach to Search Work?

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is trying to integrate the notion of search directly with the real-time web and the extended social network faciliated by services like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you find something missing from any of these perspectives, you can add to the perspective once you’ve logged in. Fundamentally, Leap.it

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