MakerLab Blog » social networks http://blog.makerlab.com Go on, be curious Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:30:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.15 Measuring the Speed of Social Networks http://blog.makerlab.com/2008/11/measuring-the-speed-of-social-networks/ http://blog.makerlab.com/2008/11/measuring-the-speed-of-social-networks/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:16:11 +0000 http://blog.makerlab.com/?p=256 We can estimate the relative speed of social networks based on profile to response ratio.

Twitter has a high profile to response ratio. Each environment and person’s profile is compressed for light transit. Myspace has more social geography. Each user has more visual and textual space. Each space is capable of being altered in size, shape, color, and there are embeddable objects.

With Twitter, there are limits on how one can augment another’s space. There is little tolerance for spamming, and much data transparency. The subscribe function limits what one can write on one’s “wall”.

This makes Twitter less iconic and faster. With profiles compressed for easy flow, data becomes more important than image. Some Twitter accounts can actually get away without even including an avatar of themselves if they provide a good data stream.

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October Makerlab http://blog.makerlab.com/2008/11/october-makerlab/ http://blog.makerlab.com/2008/11/october-makerlab/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:17:13 +0000 http://blog.makerlab.com/?p=54 October 16th, 2008

This was the second Makerlab I ever went to. We explained nodes and networks to each other, and then did it hiliariously.

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