Facebook May Not Care About Your Privacy But It Definitely Cares About Your Security
Facebook may not give you a damn about your privacy and it may have gone rogue. But, it is serious about ensuring the security of your account. Today, they have announced some steps to ensure that there are no unauthorized access to your facebook account. Even though this effort is highly laudable, it is somewhat hypocritical [...]
Why I think Facebook Has Gone Rogue
The last few days were filled with blog posts about Facebook going rogue. Many pundits are upset that Facebook treats users’ privacy with complete disdain. There are a few who feel that Facebook has done nothing wrong and those who don’t like their new policies should leave it and go elsewhere. After all we live [...]
Twitter Acquires Tweetie, What's Next?
First one of Twitter’s investors, Fred Wilson, said this Much of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter product. It is the kind of work General Computer was doing in Cambridge in the early 80s. Some of the most popular third party services on Twitter are like that. [...]
Google Buzz And Their Social Strategy
Last week Google released Google Buzz, a social network integrated with Gmail, tapping into the already existing social graph of the users. As expected the tech blogosphere went through wild emotions from overtly positive reaction with amazement to criticisms about their perceived privacy flaws. I was waiting for the hysteria to die down before I [...]
Digg needs Transparency not a new Candy Coating
That is great that Digg wants to redesign their web site and do cool stuff like making it more social. The problem with Digg is not that it is a bad system technologically; it is that it is impossible to get traction on the web site for some users because the way that the community [...]
Should you deactivate your Facebook Account when looking for a job?
Many people spend a lot of time on Facebook, and in many ways, spending time on Facebook is a great social interchange between friends, family, and people you know. What is well known is that employers, potential or actual also troll your Facebook account. This morning there was a message on Facebook that made me [...]
Living In The Clouds: Socialwok
In this edition of Living In The Cloud Series, I am going to talk about Socialwok, a social networking layer on top of Google Apps for your domains. For someone like me who loves Google Apps because of my love for Gmail, I always wanted a social networking layer on top of Google Apps to [...]
Ideas as the Basis for Social Networks
Brian Solis, leading thinker in the integration of social media and PR, recently spoke on an intriguing concept: ideas connect us more than relationships. The premise of his argument is that ideas are what elicit passion in people. They animate us, and if we find someone with a similar interest in a given idea, we [...]
What is going on with LinkedIn?
Some co-workers and I were studying the Alexa and Compete scores of popular social networking sites yesterday and I was shocked to see LinkedIn traffic dwarfed by Facebook, Google and MySpace. I include Google, because according to Jeremiah Owyang (and I agree), Google is building a stealth social network by linking all of it’s web [...]
It’s an Innovation Geekfest! AT&T’s Tech Showcase
On Thursday, November 5, I attended the AT&T Technology Showcase in San Francisco. The Tech Showcase presents some of the latest cool inventions coming from AT&T Labs. Imagine a highly professional, well-resourced Maker Faire. AT&T calls the showcase, “The Art of the Possible”, stressing the experimental nature of this stuff. While I’m not actually a [...]
Pbworks Ups The Ante With Real Time Collaboration Features
When Zoho projects 2.0 was released, I wrote a post about the evolution of project management. In the post, I talked about the nature of Project Management 2.0 Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components In the same post, I also dug in [...]
Innovation ROI – Why Every Enterprise 2.0-Enabled Connection Counts
In a recent post, Study – Collaborative Networks Produce Better Ideas, I described the research of Professor Ronald Burt. He found that employees who are better connected across the organization generate higher quality ideas than those with limited connections. Wider access to the ideas, knowledge, experiences and judgment of colleagues makes employees stronger in innovation. [...]
FaceBook Says I’ve Expired
I am not a frequent facebook-er, may even get lost navigating it. But I thought clicking on my own name, or “Profile” should be fairly straightforward. Oops… facebook says: The page you requested was not found. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive. Return home [...]
Facebook Polls – The Ugly Side of Public Polls
I am sure that there is some person out there that has gone into relative hiding right now as the FBI and Secret Service starts investigating whomever put up a poll on facebook “Should Obama be Killed?”. Common sense obviously took a holiday here, and this just opens the door to all sorts of conversations [...]
Could FriendFeed Have Crossed the Chasm?
FriendFeed is now part of Facebook. For many of us FriendFeed users, this was quite a shock. We didn’t know exactly what FriendFeed’s future was, or how it was going to make money. But Twitter has set the current mental model of not worrying about such things. And in some ways, Amazon.com did the same [...]
