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- Facebook, LinkedIn, xing making moves
- Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing making movesLinkedIn getting back on track...I've been using the primary social networking sites for a good 4 years now. On the "professional" front, LinkedIn is the place I turn to 99% of the time. They are remarkably resilient to change though, and it's very surprising that they've...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Facebook, Xing
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Facebook, LinkedIn, xing making moves
- In the social networking arena today, when Facebook sneezes, the entire blogosphere stands at attention. The latest news is that Facebook, as expected, will let its members organize friends into groups, such as business, family and school, enhance the worbvk profile and provide controls for who can see what...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, LinkedIn, Member, News, Xing, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-30
- xing links up with ZoomInfo
- Xing links up with ZoomInfoZoomInfo is not a social networkWhile I can support XING's claim that networking is dividing into "dating" and "business", just has we have a private and a professional life, there are a number claims in the XING's press release I can't agree to. I have been...
- Tags: Business structures, SEARCH, Xing, ZoomInfo
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- xing links up with ZoomInfo
- While most of the attention on social networking attention is focused on Facebook, Xing continues to build out its social network of business connections. Today Xing, and its parent company OPEN Business Club AG, announced that it is partnering with ZoomInfo, a business data search engine that identifies company...
- Tags: General, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
Additional Resources
- ACoM Peanuts (zip)
- ACoM Peanuts for professional networking. This program leads to ideal networking success by securing mutual benefit for each partner. Only this way business contacts through xing and other platforms are used most effectively. Find help whenever you need it. Use business connections to open new doors. Increase the benefit of...
- Tags: Network, Benefits, Networking, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2007-12-06
- Hey Facebook's Zuckerberg, we're the blogosphere and we won't ease up until you kill Beacon
- Hey Facebook's Zuckerberg, we're the blogosphere and we won't ease up until you kill BeaconRun and hide little boyMore likely than not, he has ran and hide in his parent's basement, that punk that he is. He really thought he is smarter than everyone else and he can abuse them...
- Tags: Blogging, Facebook, blogosphere, Zuckerberg
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Social nets and identity fragmentation
- faberNovel Consulting has mapped out some trends in social networking and digital identity. The research paper (PDF here) titled "Social network websites: best practices from leading services," compares LinkedIn and Xing and Match.com and Meetic. The research paper also touches on the how identity is changed by...
- Tags: Fragmentation, Identity, Digital Identity, faberNovel Consulting, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine
- Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company did a 180-degree turn to make it more palatable for users rather than advertisers. It still fell short of the total opt-in approach that...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, MySpace, Google OpenSocial API, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-01
- What would News Corp. do with LinkedIn?
- Last week, Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK reported that News Corp. was in talks to buy the professional networking site LinkedIn. As well as claiming a "well-placed" source, Butcher speculates that an acquisition on News Corp.'s part, makes a lot of sense, as social networks are replacing newspaper classified ads...
- Tags: Advertisement, Aspect, Network, LinkedIn, News Corp., Networking, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- The new old social network: Directory services and widgets
- Saul Hansell of the NYT has fleshed out a few threads on the expected strategy from Google and Yahoo on the social networking front. The two will take advantage of their massive numbers of email and personalized page users as a base for a social network. Instead...
- Tags: Google Inc., Directory Service, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Newsfeed, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- The unofficial directory of the 'OpenSocial Alliance' (26 companies and counting)
- It seems as though barely an hour passes where some other company doesn't go public with its plans to support Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework and it's getting hard to keep track of them. Not only that, how do we refer to "them" (at last count, 24 26 of them)....
- Tags: Alliance, Google OpenSocial, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Official: MySpace joins Google's "OpenSocial" platform
- I never saw this coming but it makes a whole lot of sense. MySpace have announced that they're supporting Google's OpenSocial APIs in favor of building out its own third-party developer platform. From the press release: MySpace, the world's largest social network, and...
- Tags: Google Inc., TechCrunch, Partnership, Google OpenSocial, MySpace, Business Structures, Social Networking, Channel Management, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Google's OpenSocial APIs pick up steam--MySpace and Bebo
- Updated: Speaking during a press conference about MySpace joining the OpenSocial train, Google CEO Eric Schmidt painted the big picture. "The broader story is the Web has moved to the next state. We knew the Web would have social framework and we knew it would be would be standard, open...
- Tags: Bebo, Google Inc., Facebook, TechCrunch, Google OpenSocial, API, MySpace, Business Structures, Channel Management, Finance, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Everex delivers $198 Google-friendly PC
- Everex has teamed up with open source players to create a $198 PC (sans display). The Everex Green gPC TC2502 runs a Linux OS and is loaded with (or has links to) free applications, including Gmail, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google Product Search, Google Blogger, Google YouTube,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Everex, Everex Green gPC TC2502, gPC, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Google's OpenSocial: What it means
- Google's OpenSocial: What it meansHuge Opportunity for Business Social NetworksI was struck by how many business related partners they are. It made me think about the unique opportunity business social networking has with an open API like this:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/ubiquitous-social-networks-for-business/Google outsmarts Microsoft againWhy bank on a single social network, when you...
- Tags: Google OpenSocial, Google Inc., social networking, network
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Google's OpenSocial: What it means
- Google's open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. (see Techmeme). Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google's open party. So far, besides Google's Orkut social net, LinkedIn,...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Network, Goal, User, OpenSocial, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- News to know: Office Online; Adobe buys Buzzword; AT&T's unlocking policy
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally unveils its answer to Google Docs. Microsoft Office heads to the Web. Microsoft brands its managed services with the ‘Office Online' name. Christopher Dawson: Web-based applications perfect for most educators. Gallery: Google Presentations--Getting...
- Tags: ThinkFree Office Online, Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sales Strategy, Microsoft Office, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales, Office Suites, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Dealing with Facebook time
- While on vacation the last two weeks in the Northwest, I've spent my time picking raspberries, chopping wood, herding ducks, whacking weeds and golf balls and lounging at the river.I come back to the usual massive amount of non-essential email, which I weed out with block deletes, and, interestingly, a...
- Tags: Web Technology, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Facebook feeds and search mashups
- Reuters correspondent Eric Auchard wrote a story about Facebook, chronicling the latest news on the rapid growth of the social network, which is adding more than 150,000 members per day. The Facebook platform has spawned 1,400 applications. But what was more interesting to me is finding this Reuters story,...
- Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, Search, General, Facebook
- Blog posts 2007-07-07
- News to know: iPhone reviews; Pink Dell; Enterprise Facebook
- iPhone Watch iPhone Reviews: Not perfect, but worthy of the hype Engadget: How does the iPhone stack up in total cost? Mary Jo Foley:The iPhone will be compatible with Microsoft Exchange, after all ZDNN: Switching carriers for the iPhone Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: iYawn - It's not a tool, it's a shiny bauble Russell Shaw: Analysts predict...
- Tags: Personal Technology, News to know, General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
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