I’ve Been Busy!

By Scott Allen, on October 31st, 2007 | 4 comments

Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been pretty scarce around the blog during the month of October. It’s not just here, but also on my other blogs, the Yahoo Groups, my Ryze networks, etc.

So what have I been doing?

First, let me tell you one of the most valuable lessons I have . . .
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LinkedIn Joins Google OpenSocial API Initiative

By Scott Allen, on October 31st, 2007 | 7 comments

I wrote book in June about LinkedIn’s API announcement, ostensibly for them to compete with Facebook’s expansion into the business networking market. Since that announcement, though, LinkedIn has been pretty quiet about the whole thing.

That all changed yesterday with the announcement from Google of the launch of their OpenSocial platform, a standard set of . . .
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Video: Social Networking in Plain English

By Scott Allen, on October 30th, 2007 | One comment

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My long-time (well, at least in internet terms) friend Lee LeFever has created a really clever, entertaining video that explains online social networking (a la LinkedIn) in plain English. Enjoy!

I found it really interesting that he used the same roadmap analogy I have used to describe . . .
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It’s All About Meme!

By Scott Allen, on October 25th, 2007 | 2 comments

It seems I’ve been meme-tagged, so what better excuse to poke my head out from a several-week hiatus, eh? Ali over at Greener Assets has tagged me for the “7 random things about me that you might not know” meme.

So here we go…

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