Social networks

The state of linkedin

Jun 2, 2010 · 
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Infographics, Social networks · 
By Vu Nguyen

Linkedin almost seems like the under­dog in the social net­work elites club. With the news con­stantly focus­ing on Facebook and Twitter, the two big­gie, it feels like nobody cares about Linkedin. But rel­e­vant or not, Linkedin is grow­ing and it is a major player when it comes to net­work­ing pro­fes­sion­als. Below is a neat graphic show­ing some key demo­graphic infor­ma­tion about the network’s users. I have an account there, but barely ever use it. It’s good to have con­nec­tions there, though, because you never know what’s gonna hap­pen. ;)

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via pandemia.info

Eddy is the new Twitter aggregation platform from Stamen

May 14, 2010 · 
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Programming, Social networks · 
By Vu Nguyen

Eddy from Stamen design

From the prod­uct page:

Eddy is a media aggre­ga­tion plat­form built for the pub­lic dis­play of up-to-the-minute activ­ity on real­time ser­vices like Twitter. It offers three pri­mary fea­tures: rapid col­lec­tion and cura­tion of what peo­ple are say­ing about an event, mod­er­a­tion of accept­able mate­r­ial, and speedy, reli­able repub­lish­ing of these con­ver­sa­tional streams. Setup of the appli­ca­tion is fast and easy, and made specif­i­cally for use by inter­ac­tive media design­ers. Eddy makes data avail­able in for­mats specif­i­cally designed for pub­lish­ing on the web, allow­ing devel­op­ers to quickly iter­ate design con­cepts with real world data and to launch with­out fuss.

Facebook privacy: a bewildering tangle of options

May 13, 2010 · 
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Infographics, New York Times, Social networks · 
By Vu Nguyen

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My Social Network Idea

Nov 19, 2007 · 
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Personal, Social networks · 
By Vu Nguyen

I was work­ing hard on the port­fo­lio sec­tion for this Web site. I spent a lot of time try­ing to write it in AS3.0 using good OOP prac­tices, so later I can just attach a sim­ple PHP/mySQL back­end and make it a con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem for my projects. I was close to fin­ish­ing it, but then I real­ized that what I did would only ben­e­fit myself and nobody else.

While work­ing on the port­fo­lio site, I wrote a lit­tle nifty piece of code that can be used to put a slideshow together in no time. I am plan­ning on releas­ing that, so you can down­load and use it. But I still didn’t feel like the project worth the efforts.

Few months ago, a friend of mine started a social net­work that is a copy of face­book but for Vietnam, you can view it here. He invited me to be a part of it, but we couldn’t come to an agree­ment as of what would be my respon­si­bil­i­ties in his com­pany. I dropped out of the project. At that time I had a few ideas for a social net­work of my own and was study­ing the tools nec­es­sary to do that.

After talk­ing to a few close friends, I decided to start a social net­work on my own. My idea is to have a social net­work that tar­get media pro­fes­sion­als. As the indus­try is going through a major tran­si­tion from print to dig­i­tal, many pro­fes­sion­als are left behind. This site should help them learn the new tools nec­es­sary to work with the web. It will also be a place where peo­ple can post their works and get feed­backs from other peo­ple in the com­mu­nity. There are many other fea­tures that I am still work­ing on, but ulti­mately, the site will be a place where every­body can come and share their thoughts, col­lab­o­rate on dif­fer­ent projects and learn from each other.

Let me know what you think.

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