Terms

• Federated: An Introduction to the Federated Social Network | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Mail:

Home : Oxford English Dictionary

Introduction

• Defining terms Terminology
• Email and BBS as Social Media Genesis
• Four Pillars of Social Networks
• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Vs. 2020 Senate Judiciary Hearing
• Federated Social as solutions to news consumption problems
  • Linear timelines
    • Twitter lists (will be addressed later in body)
  • Facebook and Twitter addressing other factors in their news aggregation processes

While there are no clear numbers yet for how many people are using such sites, there are probably at least 7.5 million people who use these Web-based social networks. That's big enough that Google has recently created its social networking site, Orkut, and America Online just launched its site, ICQ Universe.

Now sites such as Ryze, Spoke Software, Always On Network and LinkedIn are the latest to try to benefit from connecting people, this time to get a job, meet a business partner, find venture funding or simply to gather information. Of all of these, LinkedIn is the most strict about keeping its site solely for professional, business purposes. Corporate Inter-Face-Time

Origin

Generation One ISPs

• CompuServe - PERSONAL COMPUTERS; The Compuserve Edge: Delicate Data Balance - The New York Times
• Prodigy
• America Online

Collegiate Networks