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Archive for May 22nd, 2004

Stowe Boyd on “The Ethics and Etiquette of Social Networks”

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

Never mind that I”m a month late blogging this, it’’s still something I consider a must-read for anyone exploring the wide wonderful world of online social networks for business purposes: The Ethics and Etiquette of Social Networks.
In particular, I think his comments are spot on about invitations to join…
I have received a lot of [...]

The long and the short of it - RSS summaries vs. full articles

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

Recently Eric Mack asked me my thoughts about showing summaries vs. full articles:
I have a question about length.
This brings up an interesting issue, which is the length of an RSS feed.
Some blogs post the first 200-300 characters, in an effort to get people to click-through to the site. (Which, of course, many don”t). Others [...]

“No Business in Social Networking” misses the point

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

eWeek recently featured an article by David Coursey entitled No Business in Social Networking. I tried to reply at eWeek, but I couldn”t even figure out how to get a simple line break in my comments, so I”ll post here instead.
David starts off with:
Social networks are a good thing. Everybody should have one–and everybody I [...]