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Thank goodness some bloggers can write. Thank you for this piece of writing

By: Joi

Joi — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:19:24 +0000

Thanks for the call out, Bill.

And I agree, I think a universal ID can’t be far off, as many of us early adopters are being very local about our desire for it.

That said, I was chatting with someone the other day who has developed a very viable universal repuation system possibility which would need a univeral id in order to make sense.

Baby steps, I guess.

By: Social Networking: It’s still early « Bill Johnston

Social Networking: It’s still early « Bill Johnston — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:13:22 +0000

[...] 19th, 2007 · No Comments Joi Podgorny had an excellent post yesterday… mostly about LinkedIn bashing, and general snarkiness of late in the debate about Facebook [...]

By: Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:13:49 +0000

Hi Joi,

Excellent post. I agree that LinkedIn is getting an unfair amount of criticism. LinkedIn is a really good, purpose-built site for professional networking, and Facebook, is, well facebook. I get tremendous value from the former, and not so much from the latter.

To your point about “…I feel as if there is a lack of comprehensive thinking in some of the blog posts lately, especially in regards to LinkedIn.”

I’m afraid I would have to say I think there seems to have been a lack of comprehensive thinking in designing / developing social networking apps of late. We are blessed and cursed with choices. Your comment back to Doug nails it: “The emphasis has been, understandably, about building the killer apps that will get bought up”

WRT thinking holistically: Too bad we don’t have a feasible Universal ID yet… one key to the many kingdoms, with the ability to keep your personal network with you.

By: Joi

Joi — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:47:07 +0000

Jeff – Are you talking about more functionality than just syncing your gmail address book with LinkedIn?

Doug – I agree. The emphasis has been, understandably, about building the killer apps that will get bought up, not about the big picture and how those apps fit into the the larger landscape, i.e. the average person’s lifestyle.

Hopefully, as an industry, we can start thinking holistically on the macro level instead of constantly on the micro level.

By: Doug Meacham

Doug Meacham — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:12:44 +0000

“Our job as early adopters, imho, is to fix the networks for the masses.” That’s a great insight and points to an opportunity for the people who create these new social network tools. There are new ones coming online every day, each with a slightly different set of features, but with lots of commonality. Namely, enabling conversations. What I haven’t seen from the Twitter, Pownce, Spock, Facebook, gleemd, yadayadayada creators is an active program to engage the early adopters to have a conversation about ways to make their products better (“fix the network’). Perhaps it’s happening and I’m just not seeing it, but it needs to happen.

By: Jeff O'Hara

Jeff O'Hara — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:50:58 +0000

Great post, Linked in is a tool, not a way of life and doesn’t need to be hounded 24/7. You build your network and when you need somebody you call upon your network when needed. Now only if I could mashup my linked-in users with my gmail so I have all that linked-in data corelated with my gmail address book linked-in would be the best thing since sliced bread.

-Jeff O’Hara
http://blog.zemote.com