Thus, the platforms are going to be the big winners. The rest of us will build off of it. This avoids the The joys of re-entering data! George Siemens agrees with my assessment about the need for platforms or aggregation, but tells us in Scaling the Social Web that as for the large social networking sites, he's: tried them all (facebook, myspace, bebo, orkut, linkedin, twitter, etc....

Is it advantageous to you or just 'techno-fluff'? I discussed part of this in my recent screencasts LinkedIn for Finding Expertise and Searching for Expertise - LinkedIn Answers . Certainly, the conversations and the finding of expertise via social networks such as LinkedIn is a big part of their use....

Why is Facebook so hot right now? I see two main reasons which I give below, but first ... What is Facebook? Facebook is a pretty simple application with fairly standard social network functionality. At the core, Facebook allows you to: Create a profile Link to your friends See your friends updates and to update your friends Create public or private groups Join groups Hold group conversations (threaded discussions) While there are a lot of other features, that's about 90% of what people do.... So, why is it hot?

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The consumer-focused social networking sites such as MySpace , Facebook , Twitter , Digg , and YouTube are exploding – and perhaps more importantly – as they become more ubiquitous, they are fundamentally resetting the expectations of how computers can support and augment person-to-person communication and collaboration. But will they have value for corporations...

Interesting to see the buzz around Diso . DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts. or as Chris puts it : "to build a social network with its skin inside out". Our first target is Wordpress , bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.

We know that  professional relationships are moving from the Rolodex to the social networks.  LinkedIn is designed for specifically for business professional networking, while Facebook is a bit more casual.  Yet, I do professional networking on Facebook and I'm noticing a number of colleagues are too. While the demographics of Facebook are younger compared to LinkedIn, the Compete analysis shows that Facebook users are maturing....

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Data can tell amazing stories. Just listen to Hans Rosling from the TED conference and you'll get what I mean. ComScore has released their data on Social Networking today and it's pretty incredible. Facebook.com has increased 270% since June 2006 . I knew the buzz was growing about it over the last year and so I tried it out. Now I'm hooked. Its LinkedIn and Facebook only for me. Okay...maybe I still Twitter a little bit ;-).

I need to learn more about the BDC and how that syncs with the institutional data that needs to be included in profiles. Enabling and managing social networks (for business use) with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 While the Microsoft / Facebook expanded partnership announcement...