Here’s a weird thing. An old acquaintance just e-mailed me: > I’m removing you as a friend on facebook but just writing to let you know its nothing personal! You have so many status updates or blog posts every day that like half of my news feed is
But the problem is that they’re my relationships, not Facebook’s. The social network is merely the tool I’ve used to define them. It’s my data and I should be able to get it back, without resorting to terms of service violating activity. And Facebook is already
abuse
For an opening session focusing on eeeevil on the web, it proved to be rather quiet. I think everybody was knackered, thanks to the early start… Laurent Haug [http://www.liftlab.com/laurent/] of LIFT [http://www.liftconference.com/] kicked things off by asking if there is a thirst for
blog platforms
Six Apart have just updated Vox, their consumer blogging platform with a social networking bent. It’s notabley faster to use, and now you can embed any video, photo or audio you upload elsewhere, which is rather cool. For example, here’s a video I uploaded of our blogathon at
social networks
I’m probably the last person to have come across this, but it’s still useful:
Despite all the current focus on Facebook, the game’s far from over for MySpace [http://gigaom.com/2007/11/13/myspace-keeps-on-truckin%e2%80%99/].
Facebook will be unto Social Networking, as AOL was to the Internet. Even children get bored of playing in walled gardens after a while…
Natalie Cooper, who blogs on The Work Clinic [http://www.personneltoday.com/blogs/workplace-advice/], one of our HR-related blogs, was interviewed on BBC radio last week about Facebook [http://www.personneltoday.com/blogs/workplace-advice/2007/08/yesterday-evening-i-was-called.html] . Like so many internet phenomena, it’s reached the level of conciousness
community
Hilary Perkins has posted two additional things about communities [http://cowbite.typepad.com/cowbite/2007/07/online-communit.html], to add to my list from last week [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/07/10_things_ive_learnt_about_online_communities.html] .
dopplr
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/07/powncelook.png] I’m now available on Pownce [http://www.pownce.com/adders/] and Dopplr [http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/adders], should that be of interest to anyone. I’m gonna have to create a sidebar listing for all
community
I realised the other day that I’ve been participating in online communities for over a decade, from telnet-based chat rooms via mailing lists to Facebook. Here, mainly for my own reference, are the major repeating themes I’ve seen over that time: 1. Whatever you do, don’t listen
employers
David Lacey [http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/david_lacey/], one of our many bloggers, was in sunny Sutton this afternoon, being treated to lunch by the Computer Weekly [http://www.computerweekly.com] team. I was invited along and, not being one to refuse a free Italian meal, accepted. Now, I