Oct 15 2007
This past Sunday’s NYTimes has a great article on FaceBook’s changing demographics. The article starts out talking about the social “ick” factor for some 20-somethings that their Moms are on FaceBook (I’ve seen this first hand — a college friend of mine found her 18yr old daughter berating her — online on FaceBook no less [...]
Oct 08 2007
Joe Davison over at Name Strategy has put together a very interesting post that dismantles any idea that writing apps for FaceBook might be a good thing under their current platform development license…
As more and more people open up their platforms, this is going to become a recurring theme: the idea that even beyond [...]
Sep 19 2007
[update: Several "Wall St Insider" type sites claim this letter is a hoax... digging a little deeper, several of the people named in the letter can actually be found on LinkedIn and are working at JPMC according to their LinkedIn profiles. However, even if this is a hoax, there are plenty of people [...]
Sep 04 2007
Ross Mayfield blogs today about privacy and the whole problem of meta-data in Social Networks. He’s got a good point about what amounts to the law of unintended consequences when we freely give out our personal details to these so-called networks. Beyond the obvious opt-in (or lack of in many cases) spamming [...]
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