Category Archives: Social Networking

Understanding Location – As A Business

So earlier today I ranted about loose connections on location based services and individuals using them. People befriending people/loose connections on foursquare/gowalla are a pet peeve, but businesses misusing location based services is a slightly more annoying and disappointing to … Continue reading

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Understanding Location – As An Individual

This is actually one half of the rant I want to spew, the other half is how businesses are misunderstanding the true use of Location Based Services. I’ll post that later today. This rant really covers only the following tools: … Continue reading

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A primer in web etiquette

Or all you ever needed to know to avoid being referred to as a jackass Some of you might be new to the Internet or new to social networks or just need some light suggestions, so this is for you. … Continue reading

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What the new facebook layout means to you.

A LOT of fuss has been made over the transition to the facebook design in the last 60 days, and understandably it is a big change to make to over 100 million people. However, most of those complaining really don’t … Continue reading

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AOL acquiring Bebo, what you are all missing

I waited a week before writing this, why? Well I was busy, and I wanted things to settle a  bit before I kicked up the dust again. But the AOL buy of Bebo is a much bigger deal than we … Continue reading

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What happened to virb?

I remember getting all excited late last year about Virb, the social network that emerged from the guys at neubix/purevolume. This was supposed to be the anti-myspace with its CSS support and clean designs. So where are they now? compete … Continue reading

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Bebo clones facebook platform, so facebook opens up platform.

The big news out there today is that bebo has announced their new platform will be facebook compatible. This was quickly followed by news that Facebook is opening up the architecture of their platform to everyone else. So what does … Continue reading

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Community Building: What’s in it for me?

Metcalfe’s law states the value of the network increases exponentially with each additional node that is added. This theory was originally developed for the telecom networks to show how a telephony network’s value increases the more phones that are added. … Continue reading

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