Karmona`s Pragmatic Blog

Dunbar’s number is the supposed cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships.
In a 1992 article, Dunbar used the correlation observed for non-human primates* to predict a social group size for humans and using a “simple” regression equation on data for 38 primate genera, Dunbar predicted a human “mean group size” of 150 (with 95% confidence interval of 100 to 230).

Dunbar’s Friends is my definition (and trademark ;-) to those few “real”, trusted and known people in your huge** online social network***.

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* Primatologists have noted that, due to their highly social nature, non-human primates have to maintain personal contact with the other members of their social group, usually through grooming (and not “poking” as you might be expecting :-). The number of social group members a primate can track appears to be limited by the volume of the neocortex region of their brain.

** Did you know that Robert Scoble is following 21,060 people in Twitter, 2,992 in FriendFeed and only 71 “lousy” friends in Flickr…

*** Social Network for Dummies - Lee and Sachi LeFever (a.k.a. the CommonCraft’s family :) have created a wonderful video explaining social network in plain English.

As I posted when I just started this blog - Almost 2 month ago I have decided to leave a promising (& cozy) career @ Mercury to join a challenging new-born start-up… called Semingo.

This was an offer I couldn’t refused…

Semingo is a venture-backed internet startup developing cutting-edge web application in the domain of Internet Search and Meta Social Networks.

It is more challenging, inspiring, interesting and exciting than I expected, imagined or I can put into words so you will have to join to understand… We are looking for top-notch algorithm researchers, .Net coders, mySQL DBAs, “Hackers”, QA experts and out-of-the-box thinkers… to join our unique development team (e.g. Pitz, Boo and Gabel)

Stay tuned (…)

According to Alexa (which isn’t the most accurate thing in our planet :-), Orkut users are mainly Brazilian, leading with 71% share!!!, India with 13.2% in the honorable 2nd place, US goes 3rd with 3.3% and taking the 4th place is Pakistan (?) with only 2%…

I was really relieved to see that according to Google fight (which is the 2nd most accurate thing in our planet after alexa :-) Brazilian still like Football more than Orkut.

Loren Baker tried to explain the Orkut phenomena with: “Orkut sounds like Yakult or “iogurte” (yogurt)… Everyone drinks it in Brazil when they’re kids…” a.k.a. “Are you stupid?” - one of the amusing comments below his post…

Google’s “Black Sheep”:

• According to Kasie Hunt, USA TODAY: “Osama bin Laden fan clubs build online communities using Orkut” (!!!)
• Brazil Fed Up With Orkut (…)
• Police planning to ban Orkut in India (a.k.a. honorable 2nd place with 13.2%)
• Believe me there is more… (just google it and you will see :-)

So Google’s 3-year-old social network Orkut isn’t behaving according to the Google family expectation a.k.a. “why can’t you be more like your big sister Gmail?!”

Who knows… Maybe the new SocialStreem “treatment” (& Blogger integration) will help Orkut to grow-up and maybe it will only help it to grow-up in Brazil…

Well… I couldn’t resist the urge, so here it is:

Web 1.0 is about browsing… (a.k.a. “Been there, done that”)

Web 2.0 is about Social Collaboration, Blogs, Wikis, Mash-ups and 42 other things (a.k.a. “You are here…”)

Web 3.0 is about the Semantic Web, Geospatial Web, Artificial Intelligence and broader range of next-generation technologies and approaches for making the Web smarter - towards providing easy, transparent and organized access to the world’s data, information, and knowledge. (a.k.a. Just started working on it ;-)

Web 4.0 already started to buzz around “Web OS” (a.k.a. Too early)

Web 5.0 is whatever comes after Web 4.0… (a.k.a. Really not relevant)

Web 6.0 is something I want to trademark before anyone else :-)

etc.

My two cents: The web-some-number-dot-zero is a really a weird buzz, trying to tag the obvious evolution of internet but I will surely do my best to make money out of it……

(4 Pasha ;-)