#social graph

Building YOUR Social Graph

DOD was reportedly collecting BILLIONS of public internet posts from social media, news sites, and web forums and storing them on Amazon S3 repositories. But it neglected to make those storage servers private. So anyone with a free Amazon AWS account could browse and download the data, according to Chris Vickery, a security researcher at UpGuard.

Vickery noticed the problem in September. "The data exposed in one of the three buckets is estimated to contain at least 1.8 billion posts of scraped internet content over the past 8 years," UpGuard said in a Friday report.

Much of the data was scraped from news sites, web forums, and social media services such as Facebook and Twitter. The information includes content relating to Iraqi and Pakistani politics and ISIS, but also social media posts made by Americans.

Why the Defense Department was collecting this information isn't clear. But it certainly raises eyebrows at a time when concerns persist about US surveillance programs.

na, lehet keresgetni egymást katt után.

13530x6392, JPEG technika

It started about two years ago, when, in a fit of annoyance at all the baby pictures flooding my news feed, I systematically unfollowed every single person and organization in my network except the actual news outlets. That promptly turned my sprawling social network of friends, frenemies, and strangers into a mere news reader plugged into just a half-dozen publications. Problem solved! No more updates about people’s lives.

itt egy kis teaser, az elmúlt 7 napban született posztok alapján a reblogolási háló (kicsiben). mennyiségi cucc, durván 840 ezer reblog alapján sikerült meghatározni ezt a nagy gombócot.

ha lefuttatom 30 napra, akkor írok egy jó kis összefoglalót róla, meg nagyobb képet is csinálok, amin mindenki meg tudja magát keresni, de sok meglepetés nem lesz, a bal oldali viszonylag elszigetelt rész az ún. lecsós tumblr felhasználók, tőlük elkülönülve pedig szerelmi bánatban szenvedő tinitumblik.

még egy kis teaser, most mozog is! (de nekem csak akkor, ha rákattintok)

átlagosan egyébként 1.2 másodpercenként születik meg egy új poszt, a fenti animációk kb egy napnyi adagot sűrítenek össze.

az alsón rázoomoltam a core tumblira, van ott is bőven aktivitás.

We all (read marketers, brands, so-called influencers) want our audiences to share more.

The challenge is the more they share, the more difficult it becomes to find the stuff that matters. Hijacked by the open graph, drowned out by the sponsored posts and lost amidst autoplay videos, signals become increasingly hard to decipher from the noise.

In short, network news feeds start becoming an anonymous junkyard of everything online.

To mitigate this and to cater to different demographics, network platforms seek refuge in classic unbundling.  It keeps the audience engaged and creates more advertising nodes for brands to target.

Interested in instant messaging - use our messenger service

Interested in pictures - here is our camera app

and so it goes....

Sharing is crucial for growth when it is within the context of interpersonal influence. Ironically though, an integrated platform approach makes this untenable, since the influence factor weakens tremendously.

Why?

Because, 

Influence needs sharing

sharing needs interpersonal context

an integrated platform often loses interpersonal context

So after watching five cat videos on autoplay, followed by the best memes of the game last night, and the ad on how to earn $10,000 a month from home doing nothing- interpersonal signals can be difficult to harness.

For sharing to drive signals (and thereby influence), network platforms need disintegration, unlike SaaS platforms where sometimes an integrated approach can drive better customer lock-ins with higher aggregated LTV.

Which then brings us to the literal billion dollar question - 

Will the Snapchat redesign work?

I’m still making things. Just some excerpts from a bit of fun I’m having trying to make a mockup of my own microblogging platform that works in a similar fashion to Mastodon. When I’m done I’ll have a paper to go alongside it that better explains the idea.

Tumblr resizes things horribly. Heres some better versions of the images.