Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts
Monday, February 16, 2009
Added The New Friend Connect Bar
I just added the friend connect bar down the bottom of my blog! Enjoy all the social network goodness that it displays!
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Harvard Catalist Profiles
I just found a new project at Harvard based on the Catalyst CTSA grant. It is a social network for researchers.
If you look at Dr. Ramy Arnaout's Profile, you can see the similar people as well as a place for him to maintain his publications.
In IBM we had a similar system called Blue Pages and this looks very similar for the research space instead of the enterprise.
If you look at Dr. Ramy Arnaout's Profile, you can see the similar people as well as a place for him to maintain his publications.
In IBM we had a similar system called Blue Pages and this looks very similar for the research space instead of the enterprise.
Monday, April 23, 2007
A week into Linked In
A customer recently sent me an email to join linked in, a social networking "business" site. It seems myspace is more for music fans, facebook for college or recent graduates where linked in is more for professionals.
The differences are certainly there in the UI. For instance, in facebook, you can say if a linked friend "hooked up" with you whereas there is no option for this in linked in. I guess it still goes on, but it is not something you would publish as it has little business benefit and does not make you look very professional.
I was surprised how many IBM'ers were already on the network and thank those who have linked to me. The purpose is to find connections, so I thought I would give it a little test.
The test worked. I have managed to find one lost friend through our xhtml developer. I worked with David Wyss for a while around the QuickPlace redbook and he had seemingly vanished. I had asked a few common contacts (IBM) what happened to him but they didn't know. When I searched through linked in, it found a connection through Australia (where I was looking in Switzerland) and it came through a non-IBM source (where I looked through IBM'ers). So, it seems we were not very far from each other after all - there was always 2 degrees of separation all this time and we just didn't know.
The differences are certainly there in the UI. For instance, in facebook, you can say if a linked friend "hooked up" with you whereas there is no option for this in linked in. I guess it still goes on, but it is not something you would publish as it has little business benefit and does not make you look very professional.
I was surprised how many IBM'ers were already on the network and thank those who have linked to me. The purpose is to find connections, so I thought I would give it a little test.
The test worked. I have managed to find one lost friend through our xhtml developer. I worked with David Wyss for a while around the QuickPlace redbook and he had seemingly vanished. I had asked a few common contacts (IBM) what happened to him but they didn't know. When I searched through linked in, it found a connection through Australia (where I was looking in Switzerland) and it came through a non-IBM source (where I looked through IBM'ers). So, it seems we were not very far from each other after all - there was always 2 degrees of separation all this time and we just didn't know.
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