Terence Eden’s Blog

A Pun About Google Plus and The Circles of Hell

@edentgoogle Social Networks · 5 comments · 250 words · read ~724 times.

Google Plus has a serious flaw. It's summed up in this question: Why are you following me? I know who I want to share my "I hate my job" posts, and "Oh, my cat is so cute" pictures - but I talk about a wide range of things, not all of which you'll be interested in. At the moment, I've got nearly 150 people following me - and I don't know which circle to put them in! So I asked a simple question - what do you want to hear from me - and got a staggering response. This is something Nik…

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How Safe is Your Social Network?

@edentfacebook Social Networks twitter · 2 comments · 650 words

One of the great things about the Internet and Peer-to-Peer technologies is that they are decentralised. If one part of the net goes down - the rest pulls together and manages. If a box somewhere dies, other boxes should take over until it can be fixed.Grimly, we can apply this as an analogy to our real life social networks. If your good friend Fred were to suddenly die - you could still contact all your other friends. You could even contact - with a bit of effort - those people who you only…

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