Mashable had a highly entertaining post earlier in the week called “12 Great Tales of De-Friending“. As social networking eases into the mainstream consciousness, awkward situations will arise, and since there’s no playbook, conventional wisdom or Miss Manners for social network interactions, stories of de-friending will continue to entertain us. Or not, depending on your… Read More
Tag: linkedin
Who Owns Your Address Book?
Friend of the ‘Lab Dan McCall sent this post my way last week. The issue in question is whether your LinkedIn contacts could be considered the property of your employer, should you decide to part ways. This is an intriguing question, considering: LinkedIn’s self-described purpose as a “professional network”. People use LinkedIn to keep track… Read More
LinkedIn Launches OpenSocial Apps
Did you notice that LinkedIn debuted their applications platform and some very serious business apps yesterday? LinkedIn continues to chug along as the business social network, and their launch on OpenSocial is of interest to us because of our own work to do this on Connect and their business focus. So, I did a pretty… Read More
What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?
Eddie’s Oracle People Map got me thinking about what I like about social networks and why some are more valuable to me than others. Data visualization is cool, and seeing where people are geographically is a trip. I had coffee with Rick Turoczy, the Silicon Florist, today to talk about the tech scene in Portland,… Read More