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Facebook Bankruptcy

By Scott Allen, on December 15th, 2009%

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2 comments   Humor, Social Networking

Getting to Know the Folks at LinkedIn

By Scott Allen, on March 27th, 2008%

2a69006 Since I don’t live in Silicon Valley and don’t attend a lot of tech conferences, I haven’t previously had a chance to meet any of the people at LinkedIn in person. But I attended SXSW a couple 0c5d6edof weeks ago and had the pleasure of meeting Steve Ganz (right), Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn, and Mario Sundar (left), LinkedIn’s Community Evangelist, who you may recognize as the lead blogger on the official LinkedIn blog.

Steve spoke on a panel about using social networks to build your personal brand (summary/commentary at The Email Wars). Mario was on a panel about corporate blogging (afterthoughts from Mario and a great summary from Scott Monty).

I had a chance to visit with each of them after their panel. Besides just getting to know them personally (Steve loves frisbee golf), I also got a little more insight into what’s going on at LinkedIn.

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7 comments   LinkedIn News, Social Networking

LinkedIn-Twitter Fascination

By Scott Allen, on March 12th, 2008%

Quote of the day, from Jay Solo on Twitter:

I find it fascinating to look at Joe Random LinkedIn of Twiitterites and find 8-way 3rd degree linkage through wildly disparate connections.

Are you on Twitter? I’d only just sort of tested the waters before, but after this weekend at SXSW, I’m hooked. At the moment it’s sort . . . → Read More: LinkedIn-Twitter Fascination

3 comments   Social Networking

The Human Network Is a Mobile Network

By Scott Allen, on February 25th, 2008%

815317_outdoors_using_cellphone_2 Earlier today I wrote about the LinkedIn Mobile announcement, but I have to confess that I’m not a big mobile app user myself. I use my cell phone for one thing and one thing only — voice conversation, and generally as little of that as possible.

So I asked my business partner and coauthor Jay Deragon for his thoughts on the big picture implications. Here’s what he had to say:

The Human Network Is a Mobile Network

Online and mobile markets have been converging to enable people to do more wherever they are and through whatever device they use. Consider what is happening in the telecommunications industry. Mobile devices have advanced to the point of enabling users to watch live and on demand broadcast, receive emails, surf the net and now the fastest growing mobile applications are aimed at social networking. Mobile devices have a shelf life of six months only to be replaced by a newer version having increased functionality. Information and communications technologies are advancing faster than ever before.

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2 comments   Social Networking, The Relationship Economy

Scott Allen Video Interview

By Scott Allen, on February 22nd, 2008%

Seems my 25-minute interview at the Electronic Retailing Association annual conference last November has made its way to YouTube:

I cover a lot of ground — the state of social media and social networking, internet radio, working for b5media and About.com, and more. If we haven’t gotten to meet face-to-face and you ever wondered what I look . . . → Read More: Scott Allen Video Interview

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