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I hate you, milkman dan 2.0
Jul. 4th, 2007 09:33 amI've joined LinkedIn despite my previous whining about it. I still don't like it, but I am researching and need it.
I feel dirty now.
Oct. 2nd, 2006 05:54 pmI have a MySpace account. In my defence, I was trying to help someone troubleshoot their own account. And before you ask, someone else got the obvious account choice.
unclear on the concept, #2
Jun. 25th, 2006 08:53 pmSomeone sent me an invite to Linked In, yet another social/business network. I declined the invite, and on the resulting trip to the front page I saw their search box:
People you know are already LinkedInSo out of curiousity, I entered the name of someone I figured would be in such a system, who happens to have an apostrophe in their surname. I got an error message: "Please use letters only to search (no numbers or special characters).". Nice going. I sincerely doubt that many technical people I know are using a site that doesn't know how to do a fuzzy search, or filter "numbers or special characters" out of a search.
There are 6 million professionals already on LinkedIn. Find the people you know:
[First Name] [LastName]
This is kinda cute: a graphical depection of your social circle and relationships therein. It's made me think about non-obvious data that could be synced between contact management toys such as my phone and the BBDB.
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wisn
subject attribution dammit
wisnlies, damn lies, etc.
Jun. 9th, 2004 11:26 amIHNJH, IJLS "only 35.75% of Orkut members are of "about average" build, and only 38.55% have "average" looks". (from Orkut Demographics, which you'll need to be an Orkut member to view)
orkut article on c|net
Mar. 23rd, 2004 10:49 amMostly content-free article about Orkut on News.com. It does mention that there are only three engineers working on the system, but most of the rest seems to be handwaving. I was interested in the comment from the Yahoo! guy; technically, Yahoo! is probably the longest-standing social network of them all, so they should have a lot more useful information to contribute on the topic. As mentioned before, I've hacked up a bunch of notes on what I think is wrong - and possibly unsolveable - with social networking software, but I've yet to actually do anything like write a coherent rant^Warticle on it. Having discussed it with wisn for a bit yesterday, we both agreed that the biggest stumbling block for anyone's rating system is that the ratings are inherently at the mercies of social dynamics, as existing networks like LiveJournal have shown - hands up who hasn't had one of their "de-friended" acquaintances go off in a big hissy fit on being removed from said friendslist? Or who hasn't agonised over how someone will react to not being reciprocally friended? (or who cringes at the arbitrary conjugation of the word "friend"...)
I really should write this up into something. Although I notice Clay Shirky appears to be doing some similar exploration, except he's writing multiple articles on it.
I really should write this up into something. Although I notice Clay Shirky appears to be doing some similar exploration, except he's writing multiple articles on it.
In order to delete your tribe.net account, you have to send an email with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line to registration@tribe.net from whatever email address you signed up with. Seems to me that this is more open to abuse than a simple "PLEASE DELETE MY ACCOUNT" button on the website.
So, ah. Orkut. Right. It's been pretty much as I expected; I've not mysteriously connected with any long-lost people, I've not acquired new and interesting friends; essentially I've pretty much established an identical network to my livejournal friends group which in turn is largely based on links that were forged when talk.bizarre was a slightly more viable venue for discourse (or abuse). And that's the positive stuff. I've had a variety of uninteresting and crappy FOAF messages, including one this morning from some idiot trying to drum up interest in his stupid vanity site. Orkut, where people you don't know can send you spam because someone you know knows them. Great selling point, that. I can't even find a button on the mailbox that says "block all messages from this person" nor one that says, "don't bother sending me FOAF messages"; there may well be one, but it's not in any obvious place and I'm not quite enthralled enough by Orkut to go digging for it. The forums I've looked at are nigh-on useless; most of them have topics that make MetaFilter's front page seem like a hotbed of opinionated discussion, and I discovered this morning that I can't delete a post I made. I can replace all the text, I guess, with the word "deleted" or better still, replace it with "deleted by Orkut staff" and set off a rumourmill of conspiracy theories, but see previous about lack of enthrallment.
Now, someone has said to me that you get out of this sort of thing as much as you put into it, and frankly that's pants. I've gotten less out of this than I've put into it. I don't count FOAF spam as a threefold return. Of course, I'll leave my account there. For now, anyway. Just in case, you know?
Now, someone has said to me that you get out of this sort of thing as much as you put into it, and frankly that's pants. I've gotten less out of this than I've put into it. I don't count FOAF spam as a threefold return. Of course, I'll leave my account there. For now, anyway. Just in case, you know?
capitulation and cookies
Feb. 8th, 2004 10:08 pmSo, I've signed up for Orkut. I am orkutted, or something. It remains to be seen whether it leads me to any revelations about what I've been missing with the social networks thing, though. I'm already seeing rough edges in what is, admittedly, a self-declared beta-quality product, but hey. Early days yet.
And cookies. Made my third batch of Paula's DSP cookies (without active ingredients, thank you very much) which turned out less carbonised but also not really crunchy enough. I still need to futz with the baking details properly.
And cookies. Made my third batch of Paula's DSP cookies (without active ingredients, thank you very much) which turned out less carbonised but also not really crunchy enough. I still need to futz with the baking details properly.
Social Networking.
I received an Orkut invite yesterday from someone I didn't recognise but who I've apparently had technical dealings with in the past. Aside from the much-ranted-about privacy issues, and the friend-or-not issue that seems to cause so many allegedly antisocial geeks such heartrending difficulty, my biggest problem with any of the social networking toys I've looked at to date is the question of what the hell it gives me. Maybe I'm unique in not being particularly enamoured with the notion of belonging to a web of people the bulk of whom I don't actually know, but so far I've seen nothing compelling about these systems. LiveJournal provides a way of keeping in touch with people I know from UseNet, without the spam and noise that makes UseNet unusable, so there's an instant win for LiveJournal from my POV. But beyond that, I've already got email and a multi-protocol instant messenger for keeping in touch with people, and I really can't see how filling out yet another demographic form and writing quirky yet insightful things about myself gets me anything over and above what's presented to people who accidentally hit my website while googling for, say, hash brownies or bike tricks (the two most common search referrers on my site) and start looking around.
I received an Orkut invite yesterday from someone I didn't recognise but who I've apparently had technical dealings with in the past. Aside from the much-ranted-about privacy issues, and the friend-or-not issue that seems to cause so many allegedly antisocial geeks such heartrending difficulty, my biggest problem with any of the social networking toys I've looked at to date is the question of what the hell it gives me. Maybe I'm unique in not being particularly enamoured with the notion of belonging to a web of people the bulk of whom I don't actually know, but so far I've seen nothing compelling about these systems. LiveJournal provides a way of keeping in touch with people I know from UseNet, without the spam and noise that makes UseNet unusable, so there's an instant win for LiveJournal from my POV. But beyond that, I've already got email and a multi-protocol instant messenger for keeping in touch with people, and I really can't see how filling out yet another demographic form and writing quirky yet insightful things about myself gets me anything over and above what's presented to people who accidentally hit my website while googling for, say, hash brownies or bike tricks (the two most common search referrers on my site) and start looking around.
