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07.16.08YouAre overwhelmed by social networksI recently blogged on the plethora of social networks. In recent weeks, there has been lots of chat about the threat that FriendFeed poses to the Twitter community and many high profile bloggers have moved from Tweeting to FriendFeed. I feel that FriendFeed represents a big threat to Twitter. I found out today about the launch of a new network; 'YouAre' from Spain. I applied for beta access today. This is a micro-blogging platform with aspects of LinkedIN, del.icio.us and others combined with a secret sauce, which hasn't been revealed as yet. Screenshots available here. I am keen to trial the new service and will cover it here. I ...
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07.07.08Plaxo Pulse: When social networks go wrongThere have been a few cases (that we know about) of social networks going wrong and high profile service providers have been found out for stepping over the line when it comes to privacy, Facebook's Beacon being the most high profile example. Now it's my turn to experience a social networking glitch... Plaxo (Pulse) is telling me I've done things that I haven't done. It's giving me credit for the content creation of my connections. For example: I see that I recently uploaded some pics from a trip to Paris. Weird! I haven't been to Paris since '97 but my colleague Ed got back two weeks ago. I was also surprised to see that I ...
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04.09.08This digital life*I signed up for Twitter today and added the app to my blog, which you can see in the top left hand corner. I then added the Twitter application to Facebook and Plaxo and registered my phone for SMS updates. I sent a few ‘tweets’ (a slightly cringe worthy term) out and added some contacts that I know, and know of, as people that I will follow. The ‘know ofs’ included Robert Scoble and Steve Rubel. I downloaded twhril - a Twitter desktop client. I added my LinkedIn profile to my Twitter account and synced Facebook and LinkedIn with Plaxo. ...
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