Tag Archives: social networking

LinkedIn Social Network

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 […]

iYomu closing

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 […]

Facebook chat now live in NZ

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 […]

Facebook maintenance

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 […]

Bebo needs spam bayesian

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 […]