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by Creative Weblogging on July 24, 2006
Users logging onto Orkut need to beware, as there seems to be a new phishing scheme aimed at stealing Google passwords to your account.
The carbon copy which goes by ork0t.com (with a zero replacin...
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Business Social Networking
by pete on July 23, 2006
Rapleaf's Auren Hoffman commissioned the Virtual Handshake's Scott Allen (former writer on this blog) to do a study on Transactional trust in Social Commerce. What the hell does that mean?
Sc...
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Advertising
by pete on July 23, 2006
The venerable business mag, Business Week, has an article about how big media just wants to relate. The article is actually about how big media is buying their way into social networking. The big news...
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Blogging About Blogging
by pete on July 23, 2006
AOL's Weblogsinc's Social Software Weblog has been shut down. They had 1500+ Blogline's readers according to my subscription in bloglines. They should feel free to redirect them over here,...
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by Creative Weblogging on July 20, 2006
It looks as if the Google team has slightly altered the way users can post links in the forums.
After previously disabling hyperlinked text in both Orkut and Joga.com, it seems as if the Google tea...
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by Creative Weblogging on July 10, 2006
There seems to be an explanation regarding the upgrade link dissappearing within users picasa web albums, a Google network where people can upload and comment on each other photos.
Apparently a...
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Event Software
by pete on July 9, 2006
TechCrunch's Marshal Kirkpatrick covers CityCita. Marshall is unimpressed:
As far as I'm concerned, marketing of the service so far has not been good. In early outreach to bloggers, the comp...
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Online Video Sharing
by pete on July 9, 2006
Metacafe just got $15M. "Curiousity" got the best of me when I read that this video sharing site hosted a lot of "sex scenes" from popular movies. The most risque thing I could fin...
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Web Services
by pete on July 9, 2006
While we are talking about federated social networks, I thought this was a relevant upstart to highlight. Prefpass makes it possible for individuals to authenticate anonymously. The site is yet to lau...
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Chat and IM
by pete on July 9, 2006
Niall Kennedy posts about LiveJournal's upcoming integration with the Jabber Open Instant Messenger Network, which Google Talk uses too:
Developers should be able to authenticate against the ser...
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by pete on July 9, 2006
Matthew Hurst has some serious social network visualization tools in his hands. Matt is the Director of Research at Intelliseek and co-founder of blogpulse. If you are interested in understanding how ...
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Using Social Software
by pete on July 9, 2006
Yes, it is. Yes, it is. No, it isn't. Well, maybe it is.
The rumor mill is cranking on this one. A home in a big media company would be good for Tribe, as they can't seem to stick to one str...
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Blogging About Blogging
by pete on July 9, 2006
Jeff Clavier has a run down of the new features. I use typepad for my personal blog. I agree with Jeff that integration with Feedburner is the best new feature:
The most important one - by far - was...
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Soc Network Sites
by pete on July 8, 2006
Interoperable social networking websites. That's been Marc Canter's vision for awhile now. PeopleAggregator is now live. And it is a step in the right direction. We'll see if it takes off....
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Chat and IM
by pete on July 8, 2006
From TechCrunch:
PalTalk operates through a Windows desktop client and has already proven itself very scalable. It uses GAIM to create a consolidated buddy list across AIM, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ. T...
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Blogging About Blogging
by pete on July 8, 2006
What's the BIG FUSS all about? Selling the Blogosphere's Soul? Stupid and Evil?
Oh. Please.
To me, disclosure is critical. If I am taking money from someone to help them market their busine...
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by Creative Weblogging on July 6, 2006
Many users of Picasa's Web Albums, a photo community allowing users to upload and comment on each other's photo's is a buzz with the realization that the upgrade link vanishing from their ...