Tag Archives: social networking

LinkedIn Social Network

July 11, 2008 – 12:06 am

I’m really impressed by the progress LinkedIn is making. It seems to be really securing it’s position as the professional social network.
Your profile is now a resume, you can get people in your network to recommend you for job offers… And you can see information about many companies through the company profiles.
If you […]

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iYomu closing

June 27, 2008 – 8:55 am

I received this email from the iYomu founder today. Most people probably haven’t heard of iYomu, it is a social network founded in New Zealand, but targeting an international audience. They gained some coverage in New Zealand technology circles, by offering $1,000,000 to anyone who could complete a set of 10 quiz questions after signing […]

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Facebook chat now live in NZ

April 24, 2008 – 8:29 am

There were a couple of companies integrating IM chat applications into Facebook. But more people seem to have been playing ninja than loading chat applications. This should come as a warning to application developers - don’t bother extending the functionality of Facebook. If there is a niche to be filled, Facebook will just go and […]

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Facebook maintenance

April 22, 2008 – 10:36 am

I suspect that Facebook is often doing some sort of maintenance, the network is expanding quickly and the growth would be difficult to scale. I suspect that as Facebook matures, they will come up with a way to scale or maintain without shutting out users, applications and developers.
I am blaming server connection issues on failing […]

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Bebo needs spam bayesian

March 20, 2008 – 9:04 am

Not that I really mind, but I seem to get as much spam from Bebo members in Bebo mail as I do in regular mail. Except I don’t have flag as spam option. In Bebo you must block the member, providing a reasonable excuse to report them. I’ve done that before, but they don’t expect […]

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