Links: Impacts of social networks

Two different angles on what’s driving social network-based businesses:

• Social networks: after privacy, beyond friendship | openDemocracy

  Once uploaded, personal details can become public possession – and not just for now but, effectively, forever

  (tags: social networking privacy data_protection ipr)

• AlterNet: Sex and Relationships: Porn 2.0: What Happens When Free Porn Meets Social Networking

  If the porn industry is the cutting edge, we’re in trouble: the industry’s revenue is now declining thanks to amateurs sharing their own porn.

  (tags: media internet privacy business)

And another EC-funded project to support the legislative process:

• Lexis Project
  The vision of the LEX-IS Project is to improve the legislative process in National Parliaments through enhancing public participation in the preparatory stages (legislation formation and debate) with the use of state-of-the-art information technology
  (tags: europe participation edemocracy project)