A question for anyone who knows the answer. What sort of
software/hardware/goat sacrifices would one need to produce a
visualisation of a social network with, as a baseline, 1.5 million
nodes and 70 million links between them, assuming I want...
I've been hearing all these predictions and statements. And they
are certainly not that far off. These new(ish) technologies are
certainly going through their growing pains, but they will certainly
challenge the old(ish) ones.
Scott Allen points us to Tim
O'Reilly's statement: "all the social software services are a
hack because we haven't really reinvented the address book."
The article about O'Reilly's presentation goes on to say:
Tim showed screen shots from a Microsoft Research project that could
answer questions such as who you communicate with around this
particular topic. The question that follows is how we build tools for
creating networks and managing our contacts. These tools could end up
as part of Outlook and proprietary software, or they could become a
connection between Orkut and GMail. "We have to Napsterize the address
book and the calendar so that we own the data about our social network
but we are able to query our friends about who they
know.
I agree with the vision. But, I am hoping to bring the conversation
down a few hundred feet and talk some specifics about issues:
Firstly, distributed event listings and calendars are becoming the
norm:
So, I don't think distributed and sharable event and schedules are
that far off.
But, distributed social networks?
I think there are some issues re: FOAF
that need to be addressed, b4 social networks will integrate it in
a meaningful way. And when I say meaningful: anything more than
allowing them to import profile data and upload connections to be
invited.
I've posted some
questions up on the FOAF wiki regarding these issues and haven't
gotten any answers. [SORRY: See my answers below -
Marc]
So, here they are again in statement and question form.
Most social networks (friendster, ryze, linkedin, IM) create
bi-directional connections. This is ideal for
creating many connections quickly, because both people have incentives
to create the connections. The incentive is that they can collaborate.
Depending on the network, the collaboration can take a different form.
However, for marketing relationships or "fan/nod" relationships, this
isn't ideal. To make an analogy to political ideaologies: if you
ascribe to socialism and think that all people are created equal and
should be treated equally, bi-directional connections are ideal. But,
unfortunately (of fortunately), each of us performs differently and
each of us has a different status in society. So, this is where these
social networks break down. Since, connections between people are not
equal, the incentive for "high" status people to join and use these
social networks wanes as more people join and abuse the
service.
Orkut is an extreme example of where this "jamming equality into
unequal relationships" is highlighted. By forcing people to receive an
invitation, there are a million requests for invitation that go out to
the members. You thought receiving Friendster invitations got
annoying, try receiving 150 please invite me messages to orkut. That is
how many I have received in the last month.
LinkedIn is an example of where this type of connection really
works. The system is designed to screen people b4 passing along
messages or information requests. And ultimately, the goal of the
users is to collaborate with people. Since Rupert Murdoch probably
doesn't want to collaborate with the street vendor selling newspapers,
this system works for this purpose. The business people that use
linkedin don't just pass out bi-directional connections on a whim,
which prevents people from wasting time with requests that don't
deliver value to both parties. Bi-directional connections are suited
well for finding and forming mutually beneficial business
relationships.
Another type of prevalent connection is outbound
uni-directional. Examples of this are address books, FOAF, evite & blogrolls. The connection is
defined by one person (the sender) and no approval by the receiver is
necessary. This is ideal when people want to show their appreciation
and respect. Blogrolls, using this type of connection and are what
created the infamous A-List of
bloggers. (I read 280 blogs and
have a link on my blog for each. However, only somewhere between 5
and 10 people have me in their blogroll.)
Outbound uni-directional connections are what allowed evite and
hotmail to grow quickly, back in the day. And if we couldn't store
our addresses in an address book, think how difficult it would be to
use email.
However, this type of freedom to message who-ever we want, can
result in unwanted communications. Since a spammer doesn't need
permission to send email to an account, they use outbound
uni-directional connections to send their shit. Interestingly, the
solution that many people are using for spam-blocking is whitelisting,
which is in effect, making email connections: bi-directional
connections.
The last type of connection is inbound
uni-directional. This type of connection is defined by the
receiver and approval is either inherent or optional from the sender.
Permission email marketing or double-opt-in marketing is the prime
example of this. The marketer advertises a list and the receiver signs
up and confirms that it is their address. There isn't really an
equivalent of this in Instant Messaging in the US, but in Europe (I
believe) permission IM marketing is fairly common.
Plaxo also uses inbound
uni-directional connections. For example, I have sent my plaxo card to
Bill Clinton,
but he hasn't returned the favor. So, I gave him permission to message
me, but I don't have permission to message him. I've signed up for
eMarketer's mailing list, but if I try to reply, the message bounces.
I give permission. And don't get it back. I receive emails, but can't
respond.
In this "connection framework", does the fact that friendster uses
bi-directional connections make it obvious that fakesters will never
have a purpose? Whether they were real, created by a member, or created by Friendster themselves, there were many
accounts of celebrities on Friendster. But, the whole concept is
pretty ridicilous. Imagine if Britney Spears was forced to use
bi-directional connections to communicate? How could she possibly use
bi-directional connections to communicate with people like this? The only social network that a celebrity
could join and use would be one that used inbond uni-directional
connections, because the celebrity can allow people to subscribe to
them; to be a fan; without being a fan back. The same logic applies to
any media company. A media company cannott possibly listen to all of
its listeners.
Here comes the commercial: My Company, WhizSpark, has also built a social
network which relies on inbound uni-directional connections (see mailing lists). (We
relaunched the site last week and would love feedback, btw.) We've
designed the system for the promotion of events. Whereas evite uses outbound uni-directional
links to get-people-together at mostly non-comercial events and
generates revenue from online ads, and upcoming.org requires
bi-directional connections to share free event listsings, WhizSpark
was designed around the purpose of promoting events where the
promoter/planner makes money(or the event is a marketing expense). In
this scenario, getting permission to market-to is necessary, and
thus, we use inbound uni-directional connections.
So, to start addressing Tim O'Reilly's statement about how noone
has reinvented the address book yet, I think we need to keep in mind
all of the types of connections that are required by different people.
In this "connection framework", It is easier to conceptualize what
features of different communication and collaboration
technologies/applications (IM, RSS, email, social networks, FOAF) will
make sense for what purposes. Then, maybe our blog discussions can
progress beyond what technology will win and what technology is the
best. I know football is exciting and our politics have certainly
regressed to two sides fighting it out like it is the super bowl. But
in technology, there are certainly still some gray areas left.
Right?
Here's my response to Peter's request and quesions on the
FOAFnet.org Wiki.....
The notion of bi-directional relationships can easily be
represented in FOAF by defining new kinds of relationships. In our
PeopleAggregator product we have 7 kinds of relationships, Tony
Perkin's AlwaysOn Network also has several types of relationships.
But no one else supports those new relationship types. It's the
agreement between systems that you're asking for.....
Ideally everything would happen imediately - but I want you to take
a phased in approach to this.
Each specific type of relationship can be kept track of in a FOAF
file. That's clear. We just have to agree upon WHAT exactly is the
schema and related APIs to the functionality your request.
We here - are ALL looking forward to the day when more complex,
granular, ineffected, relevant relationships can be standardized and
exchanged, shared, hidden and every other way you can think of
interacting between people.
But the goal of the FOAFnet - first things first - is to exhibit
some sort of inter-company agreement to exchange compatible idenitity
records. Just getting that to happen is our biggest hurdle. Once that
mechanism has been worked out we plan on flowing all sorts of
additional information through FOAF. Including what you're
requesting.
So what I'd like you to do is to take it upon yourself to help us
map out our roadmap. This issue of starting too slow, not biting off
enough, crippling FOAFs potential has come up again and again.
And our answer has always been "baby steps before running". We're
all experienced at trying to get one of these things working - and we
all know what happens when you try and bite off too much.
So PLEASE put onto the roadmap page - the specific tiered step by
step manner we ALL can utilize to get us from simple import/export -
to the semantic web.
I'd love to talk to you on the phone about this - but for now -
there's also the issue of MERGING FOAF files, updating or hot-linking
FOAF files and let's not forget all those triple-like rdf vocabs that
we left behind - either!
So if you could at least map out an evolution of relevant
relationship types - and look at Ed Vitiello's relationship schema -
that would be coolio.
Thanks!
Evolving the Social Network
Evolving the Social Network11/13/2003 05:17 PM arantius writes "An article on BottomQuark points to a new
development: Here's a story about a new start-up Huminity, referred to
as the technology of the ...
I've always considered LinkedIn as a sort
of grown-up version of Friendster. Instead of Friendster focused on
trying to get everyone laid, Linkedin seems to focus on more corporate
pursuits, like getting jobs, making connections related to business,
and generally growing your corporate network. I haven't done much with
my account there, and I've only seen maybe one instance of someone
using me to connect to someone I've worked with to discuss a new
technology they developed.
What I have seen happen more often is that Linkedin is used as an
introduction service. Every few weeks I'll get an email saying "Alice
Smith would like to talk to John Doe, who you are two degrees from,
click here to accept" and wonder why the first and last person didn't
just email directly. Today someone four people away from me sent an
innocous question that I would have answered over email in a second.
It probably took a few days, and everyone in the chain that hadn't
heard of the original question asker or the intended recipient had to
go along with it.
I know a lot of people say "email is broken" but is it so far gone
that people have to climb the corporate ladder just to drop a stranger
a note? If we must use systems like this, isn't there a way to make it
less of a hassle?
I read in Microsoft Watch
that several former Visio/Microsoft execs
"have banded together to form a new company that is
developing social-networking software and Web services that will build
on top of .Net and Microsoft's forthcoming Longhorn Windows operating
system.
The new venture, The Graw Group, officially launched in October
2003. The principals behind Graw include Jeremy Jaech and Ted Johnson,
the co-founders of Visio."
I did a short stint
consulting to Visio back in 1998 or 1997, and spoke at two of their
conferences. I will try to track them down and find out what is going
on.
Social Network Backlash01/22/2004 03:33 PM There's a nice little rant over on BoingBoing: Is there a word for
that post-Friendster/Tribe/LinkedIn/SixDegrees oh-god-not-again
feeling I'm getting as I read the launch announcement? Like, HTML rug
burn? I mean, really -- I haven't played around with eurekster yet,
and I mean no disrespect to whoever built the project. But if one more
website asks me to "invite all of my friends," I swear I'm gonna
fucking throw up. Invite your own damn friends, you website. Heh. I
guess...
"Social network analysis is the mapping and measuring
of relationships and flows between people, groups, organisations,
computers or other information/knowledge processing entities." (Valdis
Krebs, 2002). In the context of knowledge management, social network
analysis (SNA) enables relationships between people to be mapped in
order to identity knowledge flows: who do people seek information and
knowledge from? Who do they share their information and knowledge
with? In contrast to an organisation chart which shows formal
relationships - who works where and who reports to whom, a social
network analysis chart shows informal relationships - who knows who
and who shares information and knowledge with who. It therefore allows
managers to visualise and understand the many relationships that can
either facilitate or impede knowledge creation and sharing. Because
these relationships are normally invisible, SNA is sometimes referred
to as an 'organisational x-ray' - showing the real networks that
operate underneath the surface organisational structure. This resource
is from the National Electronic
Library for Health's (NHS) Knowledge Management Toolbox. This has
been added to Social
Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Faking Out Social Network Systems
Faking Out Social Network Systems01/02/2004 06:19 PM It's no secret that I'm not a huge fan of many of these social
networking services. I have nothing against them, I just don't see
how they'll ever make much money - because they're mostly based on two
ideas that have trouble standing up to scrutiny: (a) people with rich
social networks have no problem subsidizing those with weak networks
and (b) you can easily define relationships in a binary way. However,
I hadn't even considered other issues with social networks, such as
the ability to use them for questionable purposes. For example, this
article, which focuses on the security weaknesses of some of these
sites briefly mentions a very sneaky use of such a system: virtual identity
theft. For example, you create a profile at LinkedIn, pretending
to work at a competitor. Then, you sit back and intercept any
messages that are intended to go that competitor and use them for your
own business instead. Of course, in this case it depends on others in
your network not noting that you're lying, but the number of people
I've heard of using Linked in who have made connections with people
they barely know makes this completely plausible.
Social networks have spawned a new form of spam that uses the FOAF
(Friend of a Friend) message feature frequently found in this new
genre of networks. Google's Orkut, a network of some 200,000 members,
offers the ability to send messages to FOAFs. FOAF messages often
contain conference promotions or job postings that, while low in
volume, will one day require action on the part of network
managers.
Its unique feature lies in the integration of standard and
the latest social network analysis(SNA) methodology with modern graph
drawing techniques in the spirit of exploratory data analysis(EDA).
NetMiner also allows you to analyze your network data professionally
and easily. It helps you to fast-detect underlying patterns and
structures of the network. Cyram NetMiner can be used for general
research and teaching in social networks. Also, it can be effectively
applied to various business fields, where network-structural factors
have great deal of influences on the performance: e.g. intra- and
inter-organizational, financial, Web, criminal/intelligence,
informetric, telecommunication, distribution, transportation networks.
This will be added to my white paper miniguide Online Social Networking.
TechnoBiblio has a great
post about the coming convergence of social software and instant
messaging in libraries. A must
read.
Defenses lacking at social network sites
Defenses lacking at social network sites12/31/2003 07:21 PM It's still cached on Google," he explained, "although it would
probably be hard for most people to find unless they knew all the
details.". ...
Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics
Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics04/12/2004 11:38 AM I wikified my draft Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics
chapter, part of the forthcoming O'Reilly book on Extreme Democracy. I
hope this simple contribution evolves openly. Editors Jon Lebkowsky
and Mitch Ratcliffe already posted their draft Introduction by
blog,Jay...
Social Network Bubble Officially Burst03/17/2005 03:26 AM It was just about a year ago that it seemed like the social networking
craze had reached the height of its frenzy when Barry
Diller stepped in to buy ZeroDegrees. Just one year later, very
few people are talking about social networking any more. Friendster
has more or less disappeared from the news and (as if to prove social
networking is long gone as something worthy of buzz), Yahoo has final
ly jumped into the game. So, it seems fitting that Barry Diller
is now looking to dump ZeroDegrees, after the me-too social
networking site pretty much went nowhere at all. Once again, it's
looking like social networking was a bubble where those involved got
confused about the difference between investm
ent and revenue.
Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE)
The purpose of ISNAE is to study social networks and
use the resulting knowledge to promote economic growth and social
well-being. In order to fulfill this purpose ISNAE will conduct and
support basic and applied research on social networks, collect and
disseminate knowledge about social networks, and engage in activities
aimed at acquiring the resources to fulfill its mission. I posted a
list of Online Social Networks a few weeks ago and it is available by
clicking here. I also listed the posting in my latest V2N5
May 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter available at the Awareness Watch Newsletter
home page.
Mates : The First Proximity Based Social Network Engine
Mates : The First Proximity Based Social Network Engine06/05/2005 11:28 PM "...a location-based social networking system in the form of a robust
web service, or Relationship Engine, and an optional rich media client
application, or Relationship Space Navigator. Your instant messaging
program could automatically create and populate buddy lists based on
the people in your classroom, your office building, or even your
neighborhood."
Social Network Sites Are Making Friends With Venture Funds
SecurityFocus HOME News: Defenses lacking at social network sites
SecurityFocus HOME News: Defenses lacking at social network sites01/10/2004 07:54 PM http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7739
Sites like LiveJournal and Tribe are poised to be the next big thing
on the Web in 2004, but their security and privacy practices are more
like 1997.
I find that most time, there is better security from those who
know little about it but run smaller "Social Network" software, i.e.
PHPNuke, Post Nuke, etc. Some of the security features I have seen in
these Open Source software are just know showing up in things like...
Nutty social network tool/dating service with funny-ass copyright warning
Nutty social network tool/dating service with funny-ass copyright warning05/05/2004 02:07 PM Clay Shirky has just blogged an high-larious deconstruction of
SocalGrid, a FOAF-meets-dating-service social networking tool where
users rate their physical attributes (5'10" blonde with "model looks")
and the social attributes of their ideal mate and the service does the
rest. The service commits every socially retarded gaffe imaginable,
has attracted 9 men for every woman who's signed up, but the very best
part is the "warning to copycats:"
SocialGrid has retained one of the top intellectual property law firms
in America. Everything on this site is copyrighted and trademarked,
including our search and coding system. Our patent application claims
coverage on searches for all complex objects using Internet search
engines. Our goal is to ensure a search system that will be free to
our members and keep individuals and corporations from profiting by
charging for searches. We will marginalize every profit margin. There
is no money to made in creating another ID coding system. The world
needs only one system. If necessary, we will give SocialGrid and the
patent to Google to insure one standardized coding system. Any
copycats and clones will have to answer to Google. Please be advised
that any copyright, trademark, and patent infringement will result in
legal action.
Social Issues Surround Social Software (Ziff Davis)
Social Issues Surround Social Software (Ziff Davis)06/25/2004 10:06 AM Ziff Davis - Participants in the Supernova conference give insight
into the social dynamics around the use of online social networking
services, Weblogs and wikis.
eTwine.com Launches Fun & Interactive Free Blogging Tool and Becomes First Social Site to Integrate Blogs with Social Networking & Online Dating Features
Social Issues Surround Social Software06/25/2004 09:01 AM Participants in the Supernova conference give insight into the social
dynamics around the use of online social networking services, Weblogs
and wikis.
Social Applications For Social Devices
Social Applications For Social Devices07/13/2004 01:53 AM The mobile phone, by its very nature is a "social" device. It's
designed to help connect you to someone else. While most of the early
efforts to create "mobile data" have come from a broadcast mindset
(delivery produced content to an audience), it looks like some are
finally realizing that mobile data apps need to be social to really
catch on. If they're not making use of the mobile phone for what it's
good for, then it's unlikely to get too much attention. MIT's Tech
Review has a good overview of a variety of different "social" projects related to mobile
devices, from the ever popular "Dodgeball" mobile social
networking application to Fluidtime's dorm room washing machine SMS
scheduler (and negotiator, should you find out you need the machine
now and someone else has it booked). These are the types of
applications that really are the future of mobile phones -- and not
the ability to watch the latest reality TV series on your phone or to
receive a marketing message from Disney.
Social people don't need social networking
Social people don't need social networking12/14/2003 09:54 PM Kevin Werbach points out that social networking sites like LinkedIn
and Tribe and so forth have very little to offer highly connected
people like Esther Dyson, who would nevertheless be a real asset to
the network:
Esther and Pierre don't need LinkedIn to reach pretty much anyone they
want to contact. Yet there are a whole lot of folks who want to reach
them, and don't have a personal connection to do so. So the service
worsens their email overload with little corresponding benefit.
Network Protocols Handbook For Cisco CCNA, CCIE, CCNP, and MCSE, Network+ and Security+
Network Protocols Handbook For Cisco CCNA, CCIE, CCNP, and MCSE, Network+ and Security+02/01/2005 10:07 PM The newly released "Network Protocols Handbook" by Javvin is now
distributed by Ingram Books. This book is an excellent reference for
Internet programmers, network pros and for people who are taking
networking technology courses or trying to pass networking related
certifications such as Cisco certification CCNA, CCIE, CCNP, Microsoft
Certification MCSE, CompTIA certification Network+ and Security+.
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Latest Pointless Patent: Redirect Page For WiFi Logins
Latest Pointless Patent: Redirect Page For WiFi Logins01/27/2004 02:24 AM Wouldn't it be nice if we could go just one week without hearing about
yet another ridiculous patent? These days, that seems to be wishful
thinking. The latest, dug up by the always excellent WiFi Networking
News is the fact that someone has actually gone and patented the
concept of using a redirect to force you to a login page when you
connect to a WiFi network. How is this possibly patentable? It
seems like an insanely obvious idea - and one that plenty of companies
use because it's obvious - and not because they ripped off
someone's "intellectual property". The point of the patent system is
to encourage innovation. The point of this patent (like so many
others we've been hearing about recently) is to hold companies hostage
for doing something obvious.
Bankruptcy Bill Passes; Bush Expected to Sign (washingtonpost.com)
Bankruptcy Bill Passes; Bush Expected to Sign (washingtonpost.com)04/14/2005 10:34 PM washingtonpost.com - The House gave final passage yesterday to
legislation intended to make it harder for tens of thousands of
consumers to wipe out debt through bankruptcy, clearing the way for
President Bush to sign the bill into law as he has promised to do.
Robert L. Bartley, Who Made The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Page One Of The Nation's Most Influential Conservative Voices During His 30 Years As Its Editor, Has Died Of Cancer At Age 66 (Our Condolences To Mr. Bartley's Family & Friends)
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STSN Adds La Quinta
STSN Adds La Quinta12/17/2003 02:28 PM STSN to install service in La Quinta hotels: Wired broadband in the
rooms, Wi-Fi in the public areas. The service will be free, but
meeting room use will be at a fee. The Wi-Fi offering will include
both 802.11a and 802.11b. STSN will install the service during first
quarter 2004. STSN provides service to about 700 hotels....
STSN, BT Openzone Target Hotels
STSN, BT Openzone Target Hotels12/03/2003 02:42 PM STSN and BT Openzone have teamed up to chase hotel business: They'll
offer hotels a single source for Wi-Fi service that includes
marketing, billing and customer support. BT's network will support the
service and STSN will drive sales and manage the accounts....
STSN and Sprint PCS Roam Lopsidedly; and Whither Cell Companies' Wi-Fi Networks?
STSN and Sprint PCS Roam Lopsidedly; and Whither Cell Companies' Wi-Fi Networks?02/17/2004 05:02 PM STSN and Sprint PCS will offer bilateral roaming on each other's Wi-Fi
networks. The hitch? Sprint PCS has two locations, neatly avoided in
this press release: I spoke to STSN last week about today's
announcement, and while they want to position it as bilateral roaming,
it's really a resale agreement from them to the carrier unless Sprint
PCS follows through on the plan they spoke to me and other press about
last July in which they had originally intended to build 1,300 of
their own locations. So far, Sprint PCS has built two Wi-Fi hotspots
that they own and operate. STSN has over 500 mostly hotel properties
in North American, and nearly 200 in Europe that aren't covered in
this agreement, with a worldwide total of 900 including a couple of
hundred properties yet to be built out. I asked Michael Jones, the
senior VP of sales at STSN, whether we would start seeing more of a
clearinghouse approach in which networks linked through an
intermediary fee settlement system instead of these one-at-a-time
peering arrangements. He said, "We are very selective at choosing who
we are peering with." Apparently, in testing, they're finding that
some hotspots don't offer the consistency they want and haven't
secured their systems in a way that STSN requires. Jones agrees that
industry standards for hotspot operation would make it easier to move
to a clearinghouse model. "There has to be some form of governance
over those service-level requirements," he said. Meanwhile, Sprint
PCS's failure to build out even a fraction of the locations that they
predicted eight months ago seems to be an industry trend. Even though
2004 was finally supposed to be the year of the hotspots, we haven't
heard boo from Cometa since they deployed 250 locations in Seattle
(their first of many cities, they said, to get that kind of coverage),
SBC (which predicted thousands of locations over a couple of years),
T-Mobile (Kinko's, Borders, and Starbucks seems to still be their
primary focus), or AT&T Wireless (a few airports and other deals,
but mostly reselling Cometa and Wayport). Sprint PCS customers can
roam to networks owned by Wayport, Airpath, Cometa, and Concourse. I
spoke to a Verizon Wireless manager by accident a few weeks ago, and
he said that the company doesn't plan to do more than resell service.
Nextel has its own cards up its sleeves related to the licensed...
The LinkedIn dilemma
The LinkedIn dilemma12/16/2003 03:01 PM
Here's what stopped me from writing an endorsement for somebody on LinkedIn today: the requirement
to define our relationship as one of these choices:
The same kind of thing stopped me from joining the identity-badge
party at the Digital ID conference recently. I'm bugged by forms that
invite or require me to specify the unspecifiable. Particularly when
Google already knows the subtle truth of the matter. For example, the
signup for nTag asked me to state
my interests. But I already do that all the time. Everything I write
is a statement of my interest in something. Should it be my job to fit
those interests into the Procrustean bed of somebody else's form?
...
All right, I have been neglecting my LinkedIn account
because their survival was questionable before and LinkedIn UI was
irksome, but I
think it's time I started nurturing it.
If I know you and you have a LinkedIn account, send your link
requests. You
can find me under, surprise, 'Don Park'. If you don't
know me but I know
you (?), you can still invite me. For example, if you are
Bill Gates, you are
welcome to invite me. :-)
As to my LinkedIn profile, I'll get to it someday. Thanks to
Niall
Kennedy for the reminder.
Is it me, or is the quality of the stuff coming across on LinkedIn getting better? I've
seen more job offers, media contact requests and other useful stuff
come across my LinkedIn box than ever before. I wonder if something
happened. Did you do something Reid?
WTF? Did Linkedin lose their domain name?
WTF? Did Linkedin lose their domain name?11/13/2003 03:59 PM BoingBoing buddy Jason
Calacanis points us to Linkedin.com, which -- instead of the
Linkedin network site -- now defaults to a domain registrar temporary
page. What's up? Someone forget to pay the domain name renewal bill?
Something related to recent reports of patent conflict, backbiting,
and incestuous dealmaking involving Linkedin, Tribe.net, Friendster,
and a horde of hungry investors? Or, what I suspect to be the real
deal here -- our alien overlords have returned to earth in a shiny new
spacecraft, and they want to eat all the online networkers first? Link
LinkedIn links a million
LinkedIn links a million08/31/2004 03:07 PM The social networking company passes the million-member mark for
registered users.
Briefly: LinkedIn links a million
Briefly: LinkedIn links a million08/31/2004 05:07 PM roundup Plus: AOL gives exclusive sneak peek for fall TV...Copernic
debuts desktop search tool...Charter signs 3 phone deals.
I've been getting a lot of SNAM (Social Network Spam) so I'm happy
to hear that LinkedIn has a new flag
that you can set that prevents you from receiving invitation from
people who are not in your address book. It's a bit snobbly, but it
prevents you from having to turn down invitation requests from people
you don't know. On LinkedIn, I generally don't accept invitations from
people I don't know because the purpose of the network is to refer
people to each other and you can't really write a reference for
someone you don't know. Although this probably lowers the "virality",
I think this feature will enhance my LinkedIn experience and hats off
to Reid for implementing it.
For people who are on LinkedIn, here's the URL to set the flag. If you haven't uploaded
your address book, this will effectively make it impossible for people
to invite you though.
Mail REDirect v1.4.27611/18/2003 12:47 PM Mail REDirect is an email routing utility that allows you to retrieve
mail from POP3 mailboxes and distribute it to one or multiple
destination addresses by SMTP. [Shareware $15.00 388 KB]
LinkedIn Preps Paid Services for Social Networking
LinkedIn Preps Paid Services for Social Networking09/01/2004 09:05 PM After reaching the million-user mark, the company plans to introduce
premium options, such as the ability to conduct reference checks on
job candidates or search for business experts in the network.
How to redirect output and errors to /dev/null?04/13/2005 04:35 AM Handy little trick to ensure that both standard error, and standard
output are redirected to /dev/null, so you never have to see error
mails from your cron jobs again.
HireAbility Teams with LinkedIn to Expand Recruiting Technology Networks
HireAbility Teams with LinkedIn to Expand Recruiting Technology Networks04/12/2005 02:16 AM HireAbility.com, a leading provider of recruitment services and
software, announces today the signing of a co-marketing agreement with
LinkedIn, the world's largest and most effective business network.
LinkedIn's referral-based recruiting tool is a natural match for
HireAbility's recruiting network. LinkedIn and HireAbility will
promote each other on their respective websites with sponsored links,
banner ads, newsletters, special pricing, and email campaigns targeted
to HireAbility's recruiting network. [PRWEB Apr 12, 2005]
ICANN to Verisign: "Thou shalt not redirect"
ICANN to Verisign: "Thou shalt not redirect"07/14/2004 01:54 PM ICANN comes down hard on VeriSign in a report focused on the
registrar's SiteFinder service. VeriSign is critical of the report and
hopes to launch the product again in the future.
Google Indexing Redirect Problems Continue
Google Indexing Redirect Problems Continue06/05/2005 11:27 PM We had high hopes that the issue was resolved, but not only is it not
resolved, Google itself is a victim of a redirect via scrapped
content: "... it definitely should serve as a wake up call for Google
and hopefully this will find a remedy for the situation once and for
all. If someone can highjack a PR 9 page of Google's own site, with a
lousy PR 5 domain, it means any page, from any site, can be
highjacked."
An AppleScript to batch-redirect email in Mail.app
An AppleScript to batch-redirect email in Mail.app04/27/2004 11:33 AM I've been trying to come up with a way to dump a bunch of email from a
few of my email accounts to my new Gmail beta account. The problem
is, I can't just forward the emails, because then the original headers
(specifically t...
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