is rapportive outing you?

never heard of rapportive? well, they’ve heard of you, and they’re sharing that info with all your gmail contacts. a “social crm” plugin for gmail provides a 360 view of people with whom you correspond. but is the full monty treatment appropriate for all your contacts? and what are people seeing about [read more...]

facebook apps won't share (unless you tell them to)

some more good news for privacy-loving facebook users. facebook announced new privacy controls for content shared through applications. [read more...]

zemanta hearts my posterous blogs, too

zemanta, a top-notch plugin for my wordpress blog, also offers a version for email clients. my posterous blogs are feeling the zemantic [read more...]

feeding the (content) beast

great content? essential.
creating said content? challenging.
herein some tips on making it a little easier. it all starts with google [read more...]

who's buzzing you?

most of the criticism of google’s new service has focused on the service’s auto-follow feature. I’m not all that worried about who google thinks I should be following and/or follows on my behalf. I’m more concerned about the other side of the coin – the absence of good controls over who follows [read more...]

a linkedin tip that will probably leave you frustrated and certainly take more than 60 sec

there’s some good advice out there on how to use social media tools, and there’s some that leave you shaking your head. herein some corrective surgery on a linkedin tip I read [read more...]

do I know you? degrees of linkedin-ness

twitter is not inherently credible, but it enables interaction that leads to credibility. a conversation does not confer good faith by its existence. it is the first step toward a relationship. linkedin, on the other hand, presumes relationships between connections. the linkedin connection does (or should) confer good faith from the moment the invitation is [read more...]

linkedin meets nip/tuck

since last fall, linkedin has introduced several changes to how users see and work with the site. I go through the changes and explain why they [read more...]

everyone's a local (somewhere)

the buzz keeps getting louder. web 2.0 is not only making the world a smaller place – it is making it easier to find out about and interact with people and businesses in your own backyard. here’s some of the smart phone applications that are making it [read more...]

why I love web 2.0 - google places edition

google saves the day with places directory, a google labs app that uses geo location and user recommendations to create a great user experience. and in this case, [read more...]

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