as it says

crass marketing scheme by 3

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.

danah boyd talking about how we can learn from new techs. good overview of what she's all about.

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

"three quarters of online role-playing gamers make good friends with the people they meet in their virtual worlds, with almost half meeting in real-life situations and one in ten going on to develop physical relationships." Unofruntately struggling to believe this...

Reputation systems can build community inside social games - Tracking the convergence of games and social networks

1) supporting multiple players playing in sequence, 2) requiring persistent state that affects all players, 3) breaks are the organizing principle, 4) asynchronous need not be the defining characteristic of the game.

Tom Armitage on the clunky way that big consoles and platforms try and deal with the social web. Games need to stop being so insular and the user needs to be given more freedom over what they can do with all their data