Tag: social networks

  • Startup 2.0 on again this year in Barcelona

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    This year’s Startup 2.0, a European competition for Web 2.0 startups, was launched the other day. Submissions are accepted for blogs, wikis, social networks or any other website which makes a high use of Web 2.0 components, such as tags, RSS, collaboration or Ajax. Companies and people from any European country willing to present their…

  • Data Portability

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    With the rising interest in, and use of Social Networks (FaceBook, Plaxo et al) there is growing unease in what those sites are doing with your data, never mind the inconvenience of uploading all your data every time you join a new site. Enter Dataportability.org a site whose philosophy is: As users, our identity, photos,…

  • Does Plaxo flood your inbox with connection requests?

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    Plaxo started life as a place to hold your contact information online. That was quite handy and they allowed synchronising from your Mac or PC so your contact data were always held safe in the cloud. More recently Plaxo added a feature called Pulse. Pulse allows you to tell it where you publish photos, blog…

  • Are Microsoft trying to sucker the competition?

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    The Wall Street Journal has a piece today claiming that Microsoft are thinking of investing in FaceBook. TechMeme is buzzing with the news. According to the WSJ article Microsoft could purchase a stake of up to 5% in the closely held startup, at a cost in the range of $300 million to $500 million This…

  • Should employers be blocking access to Facebook?

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    I was speaking to journalist Dermot Corrigan the other morning about Facebook. He was writing an article for yesterday’s Sunday Business Post on how companies have started blocking access to Facebook for their employees. This is presumably on the back of articles like the one in the Telegraph recently which claimed that: More than two…

  • SAP's global Social Media survey

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    Shel Israel has been asked by SAP to do a global survey on Social Media. Shel emailed me a personalised list of questions as part of the survey process. Following on from Hugh’s inspired example, I am also going to answer Shel’s questions through my blog. Hey Shel, thanks for considering me for this project.…

  • LinkedIn to open api – are they too late?

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    I wrote a post last week mentioning Facebook’s open api and contrasting it to LinkedIn and today I read that LinkedIn CEO, Reid Hoffman has said that LinkedIn will be opening their api to developers in the next nine months. This is a necessary move on LinkedIn’s part as they are seeing their users desert…

  • Facebook review

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    Facebook seems to be new cool Social Networking toy of choice. It is a cool app, it has to be said, with the ability to easily create networks and groups of like-minded individuals. More than that, it has an api which allows 3rd parties to create apps which hook into it easily. Tripadvisor have developed…