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Archive for December, 2003

Are enterprises ready for social networking? Are social networking apps ready for the enterprise?

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

In the latest issue of eWeek, Matt Hicks asks two critical questions:

Online Business Networking Blog named Feedster’’s Feed of the Day!

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Well, we”re certainly pleased about it, if more than a little surprised! After being live just three days (for those of you new here, the older posts are our newsletter articles converted to the blog format), the Online Business Networking Blog has been named

Mainstream media coverage: Seattle Times says social networking beginning to take shape on the Web

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

Kudos to the Seattle Times” Paul Andrews for his piece,

How to become an A-list blogger

Monday, December 29th, 2003

Success breeds success, and it is highly likely that so long as they keep doing what they”re doing, the current A-list bloggers will continue to be at the top of the list. So, what’’s a new blogger to do? Technorati currently tracks about 1.5 million blogs. What’’s going to happen when they [...]

I am the Blogosphere

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

The different kinds of social software have different personalities. Find the one that best matches your personality.

Blogging draws attention—are you sure you want it?

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

Many new bloggers don”t realize the impact that back-end technologies like Technorati and Trackback have on the nature of blog communication. While on the service, they appear to be a one-way communication medium—just a simpler way to do web publishing—they are, in reality, a conversation.
Joi Ito points out that many people are surprised to [...]

Tech Skeptic’’s 2004 forecast skewers social networking sites Friendster and Plaxo

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

There’’s nothing like a little humor to burst an overly-hyped bubble. So check out

Inc.com says social networking sites “could fundamentally change the way people network”

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

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Red Herring touts the impending arrival of the 800-lb. gorillas in the social networking space

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

According to Red Herring,

Identity Management Server designed for mobile SMS potentially solves big online social networking problem

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

In light of a recent conversation on Ryze about social networking and interoperability, which all started with Sean McCullough’’s excellent post laying out his ideas for social networking interoperability requirements, I was pretty fascinated to read this morning about Ayala Alternative Organizational Consulting’’s plans for building an