one of the first community driven games. little big planet is allowing users to engage more with each other as well as engaging with the rest of the web

not sure if this is a specific japanese phenomenon, think there is a slight misconception about how people use snss in the uk, but people seem to be wising up to privacy in japan quicker than they are here.

from fake to pause.... interesting take on scaling contacts

Some cracking videos here from Shirky and Boyd; the best speakers around on social software.

Good intro to Twitter by the Guardian. They predict that Twitter is on the verge of cracking the mainstream British market. Loads of useful links here for Twitter-mashups, services and general bi-products.

Danah Boyd on why teens are hanging out on SNSs. 5 fundamental properties of networked publics: conversations = persisent, content = searchable and replicated, public interactions negotiated in front of invisible audiences. all these roads lead to scala

IM through Facebook. Only a matter of time, really. A no-brainer! Facebook open all day now. Where will this lead to? will there be the option for more sophisticated levels of presencing? group conversations, display names etc etc

one of those "to read" things.

global map of the most popular SNS per continent. Good to get a sense of perspective in this myspace/facebook hype. people take up whatever service has most people on it - critical mass is vital.

Kevin goes round the houses a bit to describe the usp of Google's social cloud. As rel= becomes standard will it become harder to churn friends and contacts you no longer want?