So I apparently broke some rules on Orkut and have been banned. that is - my account is in 'jail'.
Does anybody have a 'get out of jail' card?
:-)
I geuss it didn't like the idea of me establishing over 300 friends in less than a week. What an unfirendly gesture.
OK - it's the end of a long day, it's 3 AM and it's time to talk about Orkut again.
Here's Scoble's reply to my rant from yesterday.
Social Software still not impressing me.
Marc Canter talks about the superficialities of social software. I agree. I've been trying them all (I spent a lot of time in Google's Orkut over the weekend) but I just don't get it. I don't see a business model (other than dating services, and Yahoo and "Hot or Not" already have good ones in those spaces).
As a business person, my blog is far far far more useful than filling out a form of made up BS. Why? Because you can't fake a blog for a long time if you use it for business purposes. If you lack integrity. If you are a jerk. If you are dishonest. It'll be found out here.
What's really interesting is that now that I have a blog and already have an identity online, I get tons of friends everytime one of these social software services opens up.
Translation: doing a blog is far more important than joining one of these social software networks.
[The Scobleizer -- Geek Aggregator]
No - I'm not gonna do one of those "I disagree with Scoble" things, or rant on and on about the importance of social networking. It's just a feature. And so is blogging. And Wiki's too. And project management software, word processing, multimedia tools (all sorts), email, IM, spreadsheets - and yes, even Internet browsers.
They're all just software programs.
But it's when they get working together that things get intesrting. Blogs wouldn't be half as fun without RSS readers and aggregators. Multimedia wouldn't be half as much fun with digital cameras, video cameras and microphones. Browsers need web pages, calendars need events and schedules - and project planners - well they need gigs, or nobody gets paid.
What happens when you lay off 30% of the work force and give a LOT of programmers too much time on their hands?
Blogging, social networking, rdf and all sorts of ways of connecting them together. Like FOAF.
So why debate or even talk about a particular social network. Rumor has it that - YES - get this - even Dave Weinberger has joined Orkut. So it's not a matter of "IF" social networks are important or more important than blogging, it's "social networks connect people together.
What you do with that - is your responsibility.
And when Doc joins - then you KNOW it's happening.
3:02:03 AM comment [].My weblog featured on French TV Channel France 2 !. 
Thanks to all the comments I had from French bloggers on a post I made about my meeting in Davos with a French TV journalist, Jean-Paul Chapel talked about weblogs and showed my blog in his morning high audience broadcast, France 2's Telematin.
Here are good quotes: "somebody blogged me in Davos and announced that journalists will disappear"
"No, we will not disappear" ;=)
Jay says there is no demand for messages and there is no mass. Well mass media still have nice days ahead of them but careful, the consumers become producers !
Thanks NiKo for mpeging the TV broadcast.
[Loïc Le Meur's WebLog]
Very few people know Loic or his plans for uBlog - his French blog tool. But let's just say it's not a coincidence that Loic is on TV. He'll be in San Diego at Etech - so ask him what he's up to!
:-)
Pitching in today at a hot startup; the scenario is classic, check the picture: wires draped over the walls, O’Reilly books on the tables, Doc Searls in the back room.
That space heater hanging from the ceiling isn’t there for decoration, the place was damn cold in the morning. Mind you, sitting right under it with your laptop isn’t recommended, you can cook your computer that way.
This, right here, is what the creative edge of the Internet business looks like. You can’t buy the feeling, and the real heat is coming from the people not that box up there. [ongoing]
Dave Winer says it's Technorati - I say it's some super secret project that Tim would have to kill us all - if we divulged. Something to do with FOAF and RSS - that's for sure.
If Kevin marks was in the picture - then I'd say it was Technorati.
And I don't see no soul-food either.
You asked for it - here it is - every social network there is.
How Many Social Nets Are Too Many?.
Today in Wired News, Leander Kahney has a story — Social Nets Not Making Friends — in which she talks about: an SNS backlash brewing; Jason Kottke’s parody job listing on craiglist.org; and the fact that the social networking service field has “ballooned to include about 20 different services.”
Well Leander, by my count, there are more than 100 social networking services that I have been observing — cruising past my virtual radar gun — in the past few months. I have been tracking this burgeoning growth of services aspiring to help discover and connect my friends, potential partners, business cohorts, and various levels of acquaintances — and I have this scary feeling that I am only carving shavings off of the tip of an iceberg with this list.
Here is a copy of my accounting — replete with links — of this daunting deluge of SNSs:
Affinity Engines, Amigos.com, AsiaFriendFinder, Backwash, Backwash for Pets, BuddyBridge, BuddyZoo, Chia Friend, Classmates.com, Community Zero, Company of Friends, The Conneck, Contact Network, Corporate Alumni, CraigsList, Delphi Forums, Dude Check This Out!, easeek, ecademy, eFriendsnet, 8minuteDating, Eliyon, enCentra, Eurekster!, everyonesconnected, Evite, First Tuesday, FriendFinder, Friendity, Friend Surfer, Friends Reunited, Friendster, Friendzy, GermanFriendFinder, Globe Alive, GoingProfessional, gradFinder, Growth Company, HeiYou, HelloWorld, hipster, Huminity, IndianFriendFinder, InterAction, ItsNotWhatYouKnow, KnowMates, LianQu, LinkedIn, Living Directory, Love.com, The Lunch Club NYC, Match.com, matcheroo, Mediabistro, MeetUp, Monster Networking, mrNeighborhood, MyEMatch, NetMiner, Netmodular Community, Netparty, Netplaya Burning Man Community, Networking For Professionals, Nerve, Online Business Networking Resource, The Opinion Exchange, orkut, PalJunction, Passion.com, peeps nation, PowerMingle, qpengyou, RateOrDate, RealContacts, ReferNet, RepCheck, Ringo, Ryze, Salesforce.com, SeniorFriendFinder, Shortcut, Silicon Valley Pipeline, Small World Project, Social Circles, Social Grid, SocialTree, Sona, The Spark, Spoke Software, StumbleUpon, Sullivan Executive Networking Community, Talk City, There, Tickle by Emode, Tribe.net, uDate.com, UUFriends, Visible Path, Wallop, WisdomBuilder, WorldShine, YeeYoo, YOYO, Zdarmanet, and Zerodegrees.
Cynthia Typaldos has an excellent post (from September 14, 2003) and database — that she started but has turned over to all interested parties to maintain — on Social Networking Sites and Software with perceived focus.
[The Social Software Weblog]Oh man - I saw this on my Tribe message board and ignored it. I even got special invites. It's times like these that I wish I had a great nany to watch over our kids - so we could hit the BART party cars.
I take BART to work everyday - now that I live in Walnut Creek. but don;t worry, teh marc talked about in this article - isn't me. But it used to be.
NYTimes covers last week's partycar event on SF BART. A piece in today's NY Times on last week's partycar event aboard a BART train in San Francisco, blogged here on BoingBoing and organized through Tribe.net -- and a stack of 1000 black-and-white flyers. FWIW, Marc *is* both a chef and a hacker, and I dare say he's damn fine at both.
Link: "Last Car. Geek Party. Spread the Word." [Boing Boing Blog]When the reporter approached Marc, the party's nonleader who was described by others on the car as both a chef and hacker, Marc asked to see proof of employment. He looked disdainfully when handed a New York Times business card, refusing to take it. Marc then declined to speak further.
After about half an hour, the party took a general turn for the worse when two transit police officers boarded the last car in Berkeley.
It was there, with everyone required to assemble on the platform, that Romance the clown joined the reporter on the party's island of misfits. The police were threatening her with a citation for boisterous behavior. More than a few commuters simply wanted to read a book after a long week at work, the officers explained, suggesting that she just shut up. But Romance did not, for the longest of times. Most of the geeks scattered as she endeavored to remain in character, even when her rubber chicken slipped from her belt and an officer ordered, "Don't drop your chicken, ma'am."
1. Watch Return of the King
2. Watch Fellowship of the Rings
3. Join orkut4. Watch The Two Towers
Well, at least I'm making progress. Its not quite as cramped in here as I thought.
Thank god I got Ross joined (or at least I think I did.) So much happened so fast.
But anyway it's important to get Ross and his boss Elliot onto Orkut, so they can see what's happening and why they wanna bake social networking into "you know what!"
And to support FOAF along the way! 'Cause FOAF and OpenReveiws in a tool that was licensed to.....
OOooooops - I'm saying too much. As long as Elliot and Ross listen, I'm happy.
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Crucialized: 6/9/2004; 3:07:50 PM.