Stephen Downes

So is it a 'socal graph' or a 'social network'? Some of the recent work in the field has started to talk about the 'social graph'. But as Dave Winer - correctly - points out, the term means (basically) exactly the same thing as 'social network'. With the advantage that people have heard of it. More discussion of this at Nick Carr's website. Me - I'm on record as supporting the term 'Open Social Networks' to describe what we're doing.