Obama Facebook app
This week’s “news”:http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/24/facebook-launches-facebook-platform-they-are-the-anti-myspace/ that Facebook is re-launching itself as a platform is important, for a number of reasons. As I wrote “a couple weeks ago”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/05/16/twitter-v-facebook.php, Facebook has become part of my routine: it’s a way to connect and keep in touch with friends, and it’s proving to be a fun tool to use. It’s designed [...]
Twitter v. Facebook
A couple months back, I “wrote”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/03/11/twitter.php about giving Twitter a look. In the past few months, I’ve found it’s never become part of my daily routine. It’s somewhat interesting to see what others are up to, but the signal-to-noise ratio is higher than I need. I tried using a stand-alone Twitter client (”Twitbox”:http://www.winextra.com/2007/03/30/twitbox-050-a-twitter-client/ for Windows) [...]
OK, OK. I give up. I’m “on Twitter”:http://twitter.com/rklau. When I first heard about Twitter, I thought it was just a way to render SMS as useful as e-mail (which is to say, not very). But as with many tools that are now an indispensable part of my online life (RSS, Flickr, Youtube, Gmail, Facebook, Google [...]
I wrote about Facebook a couple weeks ago, and since then have spent a bit of time playing around. Prior to this, I’d only really spent time on MySpace, which often left me wanting to curl up into a fetal position and weep. Fourteen years of lessons learned in web design and that is the [...]
TechCocktail - a great party
Last night was the second “TechCocktail”:http://www.techcocktail.com/ event, and it was incredible. I had to miss the first because of a family commitment, but I’m really glad I got to make it last night. “Eric”:http://www.ventureweek.com/ and “Frank”:http://www.somewhatfrank.com/ really outdid themselves: over 300 in attendance when all was said and done. The founder of Vonage was there, [...]
LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar rocks
I’ve been a LinkedIn user since its early beta days, and while I was initially intrigued by it (at the time, I was working for a CRM company and was mostly looking for competitive info) it took a couple years for LinkedIn to be a useful tool for me: ironically, after leaving said CRM company, [...]
Smart Bet Chicago Poker Tournament
I’m looking forward to this “charity poker tournament”:http://www.smartbet.org/ being held in a couple weeks in Chicago. Looks like it’ll be great networking, a lot of fun, and even a chance for a few “prizes”:http://www.smartbet.org/smart_bet_prizes.pdf. It’s also in support of a great cause — the Chicago Entrepreneurial Center’s business education center for under-privileged Chicago high school [...]
Disney’s Social Software Service: Magical Gatherings
Color me a bit surprised. My parents are planning a big family get-together next spring at Disney; it will be their first chance to get all four grandkids together in over a year. After a few e-mails back and forth about some details (dates, location), I got an e-mail from Dad inviting me to download [...]
Multiply this!
Too good to pass up:
The feature I’d most like to see in any new social network: Import from some other social network. Get me out of the middle of re-re-re-re-confirming that I am so-and-so’s dear friend.
These social networks in my experience continue to be all maintenance and no value. [ Joho the Blog ]
Now, I’ll [...]
My Social Networking article in Law Practice Management
My article on Social Networking is up at “Law Practice Management’s website”:http://www.abanet.org/lpm/magazine/articles/v30is1an20.html. How’d I know? I got a LinkedIn request from a reader. Cool.
One clarification, that I realized after reading my own article: I should have made it clearer the connection between CRM and social networking. I didn’t do that clearly enough in the article, [...]
