Archive for the 'Social Networking' Category

Oct 15 2007

NYTimes on the FaceBook’s Changing Demographics

Published by David HM Spector under Social Networking

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 [...]

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Oct 08 2007

Facebook Apps: TNBT* or Fool’s Gold?

Published by David HM Spector under Social Networking

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 [...]

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Sep 19 2007

Resigning? Burning Bridges is Always a Bad Strategy…

[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 [...]

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Sep 04 2007

Pass on the Quechup, or why YASNS isn’t about Social Networking

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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