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Will you be in the San Francisco Bay Area next week, namely Monday between 11 and 2? If so, stop by Lunch 2.0, which will be at Oracle for the first time, to mingle with AppsLab and other new web interested people. You can find details here. This should be a great chance to network, [...]
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All the good names may be gone.
Reading this piece in Business Week on Google’s orkut and their plans for social domination, I figured it was finally time to give orkut a test drive to see what all the excitamento or halachala (I hope these are close) was all about.
Orkut is wildly popular in Latin [...]
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I have a MySpace profile that I use occasionally for comparison purposes. I use the account when I read about some new feature they have or to see how they handle a specific social network feature.
Last week, I got bacn from MySpace saying that “Cathy” wanted to be my friend. Although I know MySpace is [...]
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A couple recent nuggets reminded me of Paul’s post on trust and underlined the reasons why Web 2.0 can never be Enterprise 2.0. With Connect, we’ve come upon a new (at least to us) dimension of the social network, i.e. the explicit trust created by working together. Paul says:
When we inject trust into the equation. [...]
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Last week, screenshots of Kickstart, Yahoo’s lastest foray into social networks surfaced. Not surprisingly, Kickstart is targeted at recruiting, helping college student find an “in” at companies where they want to work and helping companies recruit students.
I like this approach, as long as they can keep it clean by ensuring the students are really students [...]
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In a comment on my first post about the slow death of email as a communication medium, Julie asked:
I guess you are talking about email in the context of personal communication rather than business? What are your thoughts on IM for business use, as a replacement for email?
My position is that email is dying off [...]
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Yes, this is also my current Facebook status. By way of Nick O’Neill at All Facebook, I read a blog by Megan Berry today about the collision of her personal and professional lives on Facebook. It’s an interesting read.
Aside from the irony of blogging about things she did not want her co-workers to see [...]
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I’m sure most of you will not agree, or you’ll convince yourself otherwise. News.com has an interesting article with the catching headline, “Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead”. This got me to thinking about dead letters, for some odd reason.
Like it or not, email is dying. Just like face-time gave way to phone calls, [...]
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More maps for the data visualization junkies, I can’t believe I forgot to share this social networking map of the world from Valleywag.
Full-size original.
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addthis_title = ‘More+Interesting+.+.+.’;
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Mashable reported yesterday that MySpace was blocking the letter “i” in all MySpace blogs and replacing all the i’s with “..”.
Courtesy of I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Ftheappslab.com%2F2007%2F07%2F22%2Fthis-post-sponsored-by-the-letter-i%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘This+Post+Sponsored+by+the+Letter+%26%238220%3Bi%26%238221%3B’;
addthis_pub = ”;
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Ionut Alex Chitu over at Google Operating System has a post about Socialstream, a new kind of social network, created by a project in the Master’s program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute and sponsored by Google. Don’t the already have a orkut that’s kind of a big deal in Brazil?
Anyway, the feature [...]
