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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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First, it was Steve Ballmer. Now, Eric Schmidt? What is going on here?
I’m surprised Eric would want to befriend me, since I called him coy in this space not once, but twice.
Maybe he wants to hire me and doesn’t know I have no PhD, or even masters. D’oh.
Seriously, can anyone shed some light on this [...]
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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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Fellow AppsLabb’er Rich, just informed me via IM (which is so 1999, why aren’t we Twittering?), that Steve Ballmer friended him on Facebook. Turns out that both Paul (AppsLab poobah) and I were also friended by Steve.
Maybe the rumor is true, and Microsoft is digging out $6 billion for Facebook (Techmeme coverage). [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
