Too Many of Me, Part 2

Published on July 8th, 2007 View Comments

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 [...]

Building a Social Enterprise Application in Under 24 Hours

Published on July 6th, 2007 View Comments

Paul, Jake and I were chatting a few weeks ago wondering how we can establish an ongoing dialog with our peers in product strategy and capture the innovative ideas they have for our future products. We thought of several ways to do this:

Having conference calls to exchange ideas on a regular basis
Inviting our peers [...]

Too Many of Me

Published on July 6th, 2007 View Comments

Jeff Nolan addresses an issue that many others (e.g. Robert Scoble, Anshu Sharma) have begun to complain about recently. Namely, there are too many social networks to use realistically, and no one has adequately addressed the requirement for a cross-network identity management tool. For people in a position to give advice on [...]

More Thoughts on Facebook

Published on July 5th, 2007 View Comments

I’ve been following Facebook closely since the platform launch in May, especially the enterprise aspects and Facebook as an alternative to LinkedIn for professionals. Rather than do a giant brain dump, I’ll post a piece each day (or so) until I’m tapped.
The best place to start is with the platform. I covered this briefly [...]

My Very Own Facebook Post

Published on June 22nd, 2007 View Comments

Since every post about Facebook’s runaway success begins with “I’ve never been a MySpace guy . . . “, here goes: I can’t stand MySpace; it gives me eye seizures.
I love what Facebook is doing. They spend several years carefully building a niche network for college students that protected the target users from [...]

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