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Updates from April, 2008

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  *cide

  Jevon 11:32 pm on April 9, 2008 | 9 Permalink | Reply
  

  The following actions comprise a list of Cliché behavior in social networking. While these actions have, until reaching cliché status, made the actor appear to be somewhat introspective, deep and rather emotionally connected, they in fact represent a culmination of the symptoms of a stew of behavioral disorders and general lack of personal management skills.

  The compulsion to add too many people as your friend early on in a new social network will be known from now on as Friendive-Compulsive disorder.

  The list is as follows:

  * Declaring email bankruptcy. First known cases: 2002. There has recently been a resurgence in the financial and startup blogging worlds. “I have 500 unread emails. I am declaring email bankruptcy”

  * Maintaining an Orkut, Friendster or Vox account and publicly claiming to actually log-in to these services

  * Deleting your Facebook account. This one is growing in popularity and is most certainly already cliché, but we are not near the end of this.

  * Having both a Myspace page and a Linkedin account. I am sorry, opposite worlds. You may implode or spontaneously ignite due to the fact that on one of them you are living a lie.

  * The latest is Twittercide. The act of publicly announcing the killing of your oversubscribed twitter account.

   

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  Wikis are not Social Software

  Jevon 6:01 pm on April 3, 2008 | 4 Permalink | Reply
  

  Just a quickie while this blog lives in the templateless limbo that it is now in.

  Wikis have a well earned reputation of being a quick-deployment option that is easy enough to explain to your colleagues: “It sits there, and I can edit it, and you can edit it,. and it will always be there when you need it”.

  Wikis are not social tools however. They are collaborative tools. This is an important distinction, mainly because the value that social tools create comes from their inherent social components: Sharing, currency, relevance and the filters that can be built from social network data.

  (Good) Social Software on the other hand will focus on the personality above all else. Who is creating this? Why did they create it? Who else should know?

  The obvious killer app, on first blush at least, is to combine these two things. The truth is: many have tried and they have all more or less failed. I think the killer app is probably a lot more subtle.

   
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  This blog is in bad shape

  Jevon 4:43 am on April 1, 2008 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  

  Please bear with me while I try to figure out what is wrong with the Wordpress install here. Something seems to have gone wrong and it is stuck on this default template.