Social Web’s Bill of Rights – Vaporthinking?
Pete Cashmore says it’s all hot air: This sounds a lot like talk and no action to me. Do 99% of those users on social networks care about this stuff anyway? And what difference does it make if anyone...
View ArticleThe Social Graph and Participant Motivations
Two interesting articles on social networking and data elements from Read/WriteWeb, compliments of Alex Isgold and Bernard Lunn. Some will find them lengthy for blog posts, but follow through....
View ArticleHappy Holidays (and headline hoopla)
Cheer and good tidings first; light reading last Charlie Crist calls for an investigation of “Florida’s subprime-tainted fund.” It’s really a SIV tainted fund and a sub-prime tainted SIV, but I’ll...
View ArticleNo firetrucks will arrive as online privacy battle heats up
To get people thinking about the related issues, Marshall Kirkpatrick has put together a list of questions well worth asking, and discussing. It is indeed timely. Online social networking is already on...
View ArticleAre social networks…
1) Bill Gates’s nemesis? 2) The Hotel California? or 3) Just a time sink you can map (and of course, waste more time doing so)? Everything has its limits. Thousands of daily “friends” requests aren’t...
View ArticleLinkedIn tip sheet (and a “how do they do that?”)
Bernard Lunn started by comparing LinkedIn’s search feature to Google, and concluding the former was better. I found Mr. Lunn’s personal use cases even more intriguing than his headline, and think you...
View ArticleThe joke starts off “To delete your Facebook account…”
This morning’s MySpace note reminded me that I had some housekeeping to do. One of the duties was to delete a few social networking accounts – I don’t use them and likely never will, preferring the...
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Gems in the Rough: Social advice at FunAdvice
Management finds a way. When a person performs a search, often they are looking not specifically for a product or a service but an answer. Sometimes it’s just a second opinion before pulling out the...
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Around the world in nine paragraphs flat – 03/30/09
Technology – Jeff Bezos spent a week working in one of his own warehouses. When I first heard about it, I thought he was making a shift from strategic to operational, with an eye to cutting some costs....
View ArticleUnfollow me, please
I have been actively engaged on Twitter for roughly twenty months. During that time I have met some interesting folks, and had some fun. I also learned a lot about people, social interaction,...
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