Tag: social networking
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The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like moder…
The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like modern narcissism taken to a new, supermetabolic extreme — the ultimate expression of a generation of celebrity-addled youths who believe their every utterance is fascinating and ought to be shared with the world. Clive Thompson Is that so bad? ;-) Read Clive’s, “Brave New World of Digital…
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Quote of the Day — Robert Scoble
There is value in staying ignorant. Robert Scoble But it depends on your goals. Go read the context.
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Quote of the Day — Rick Turoczy
And that’s when it hit me: some people — arguably the majority of the human race — form “social networks” in an entirely different way than the infinitesimal segment of us Web 2.0-focused geeks do. In real life, it seems, these social networks are actually formed in person. No, I’m serious. Rick Turoczy
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Spokeo is Spooky
Want to know what your friends are doing? Go to Spokeo. Spokeo automatically searches social networking sites for the e-mail addresses in your contact list and reports any available activity. If you don’t trust Spokeo with your e-mail login information, you can manually add “friends” to your Spokeo account. Your contacts won’t know you’re spying…
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MySpace Without True.com Ads
I have a MySpace account. As my tagline says, I’m “increasing the average age on MySpace.” I don’t have a lot of MySpace friends, but it’s one more way to watch my kids online. Yeah, I know, they could be sending messages that I would never see… I’ve always hated the True.com dating service ads.…
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Links for May 7, 2007
TagCrowd — Make your own tag clouds. I used TagCrowd for “Passing 500.” TechRepublican.com — Can Republicans compete in the online election space? This new blog might be worth watching…
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Links for May 2, 2007
Interesting sites from today’s reading: Pollster.com — Charts, graphs, and maps, with analysis techPresident — Graphs on the candidates social networks and mentions by the blogosphere
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Barack Obama Not Friendly on MySpace
Barack Obama steps in it when he stomps on a fan’s MySpace. Maybe he’s not so wired, after all. Well, he’s getting some buzz now. ;-)
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Democrat Candidates More Wired?
I added networking links for the declared presidential candidates on my Election 2008 page. The Democrats have more networking links than the Republicans, averaging 3.0 links per Democrat compared with 1.7 links per Republican. I only counted links to Facebook, Flickr, Meetup, MySpace, and YouTube. A couple of the Democrats also had PartyBuilder; I didn’t…