I joined Orkut back on about day 3 after their launch. At the time, knowing several people following the social software / online social networking space, I invited all the ones I knew who weren’t already members… academics, journalists, bloggers, etc. That was back at the end of January.
I’ve been fully unimpressed by Read More...

I will be speaking on social network software at these two New York conferences. I hope to see you there.
+ The Hedge Fund Start-Up & Business Development Forum, May 11-12, 2004
+ Private Equity Summit 2004: Fund Formations & Emerging Investment Opportunities, May 18, 2004

Courtesy of Cem Sertoglu, I learned recently about this new Social Networking Directory, Privinfo.

Erik van Bekkum did something really interesting in creating his Ecademy profile — he enlisted the help of his friends.
In case you’re not familiar, Ecademy has as one element of its profile a field called “50 Words”. It’s intended to be a list of keywords that describe you both personally and professionally. It Read More...

I look forward to attending this mini-conference for New York Bloggers, Monday, May 3, 6PM, Apple Store Soho. See you there!
I have to say I’m very surprised that they don’t have some sort of easily visible mechanism for identifying who else has signed up.

The results are in for the Corporate Blogging Elevator Pitch Competion, and the winner is…
Lee LeFever of Common Craft Consulting!
Lee won a $100 Amazon gift certificate from Weblogs Inc. sponsor Spoke Software, the publication of his winning pitch on the blogs of all the judges, and, of course, “bragging rights”.
This couldn’t happen Read More...

When you paste formatted content from Word into a Web-based HTML editing system tons of Microsoft specific tags come along for the ride. They are in there for round-tripping; so that you can put the content back into Word without it losing its Word-ness.
If your goal is to serve the content online and never take Read More...

Would you like to contribute to a groundbreaking book in social network software?
As our regular blog readers know, we are now writing a mass market book on online social networks, and specifically social network software. The book includes an overview of social network analysis as it should be leveraged by businesspeople. Read More...

Now that people are starting to get over the “gee whiz” factor of online social networks and starting to actually make productive use of them in a business sense, they’re also starting to realize that there’s more to using them effectively than the simple mechanics of using the site.
As an analogy, anyone who can type Read More...

According to Tickle CEO James Currier, “Search is a natural way for online social networking to move forward”.

Excuse me?!? Am I missing something here?