Elliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General, is suing Intermix for spyware. Intermix is best known in the social software world for its ownership of the wildly popular MySpace. I can”t comment on the validity of Spitzer’’s accusations. However, I can say that MySpace holds data about its members which is certainly highly [...]

The Business Development Institute is hosting Blogging Goes Mainstream. I hope to see you there!
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
2:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Microsoft Customer Briefing Center
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY
Online registration and agenda: http://www.bdionline.com/blogevent
For registration enter promotion code “Teten” to receive a $25 discount.
BusinessWeek May 2, 2005 Cover Story, “Blogs [...]

Rex Hammock and many others report that Infinity has launched a radio station made up entirely of podcasts. You could read this as a triumph for citizen’’s media—or look at it as the outsourcing (for free!) of a media channel’’s putative core competency.

Are you interested in reading a preview copy of our new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online?
This will be the first mass market book about how you can find new clients, raise capital, recruit star employees, or even find a great new job by using online networks. More technically, this [...]

Clay Shirky wrote:
As the net gets bigger and karma, previously bottled up in human relations, becomes convertible for real currency, in everything from ZeroDegrees/SMS.ac style spam to real sales of virtual characters to this, we are going to have to find ways to defend against this sort of karmic hijacking.
In another example, and following up [...]

USA Today provides a comparison of MSN Spaces and Yahoo 360. Without commenting in depth on those systems, my general recommendation is to avoid becoming dependent on gated communities.
From our point of view as authors of a book due out June 30, the entry of big players like MSN and Yahoo is very exciting. [...]

You could see this coming: leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Tapuz’’s Blog TV (the personal broadcast forum of a popular Israeli portal) has evolved into primarily a porn broadcast vehicle. The Pro-Am economyhas come to porn just like many other industries.

I recently had a series of conversations with Craig Callé, Founder and CEO of the very newly launched COMMON.net. I have added a profile of COMMON.net to our Social Software Guide. You can see it here: COMMON.net corporate profile.
Highlights:

The Company challenges the convention established by many business-focused SNSs such as LinkedIn, which Craig [...]

Clive Thompson reports on: Rate-a-date:
One of the big criticisms you hear about online dating is that people aren”t quite honest in describing themselves. So along comes TrueDater.com, a site where people post reviews of those they”ve had dates with — and link to the original ad that sucked them in.
A more elegant way to do [...]

A great resource for job-seekers and just about everyone else: QuintCareers” Internet Career Networking Tutorial for Job-Seekers:
A Guide to Getting Connected Online
This tutorial is a comprehensive guide to the many ways you can use the Internet to connect with people all over the world.