Voices » social graph http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Email and Cellphone Contacts Are the Real Social Graph http://voices.allthingsd.com/20071231/e-mail-and-cellphone-contacts-are-the-real-social-graph/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20071231/e-mail-and-cellphone-contacts-are-the-real-social-graph/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:01:32 +0000 Scott Karp http://voices.allthingsd.com/20071231/e-mail-and-cellphone-contacts-are-the-real-social-graph/ By Scott Karp, Editor and Publisher, Publishing 2.0

Google has been quietly rolling out social features across all of its services based on Gmail contacts. While Google still has to overcome some of its social tone-deafness (e.g. automatically adding contacts without asking), this move makes perfect sense. For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph.

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In the lazyweb department, I had an idea the other day that I thought I’d put out more broadly (lest someone else have the same thought, plus the thought to patent it). And that is the idea that one side-effect of the “social graph” is to create a unique identity signature.

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