Entries categorized 'Social Computing' ↓

Next Generation Social Networking: FrontPorchForum

Social networking comes full circle. FrontPorchForum connects me to my very own neighbors and I am lovin' it! Read more here [A New DevLife post]

Eight Great Lessons from Working Dads

One of the most memorable things about this year's Women in I.T. luncheon at TechEd, was Scott Bellware , who attended, telling me afterward that he was surprised to learn how much women talk with each other about work life balance. He thinks that men of course think and worry about this all of the time...

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Spaces.MSN.COM

In listing the " new MSN bloggers ", Robert lists Dare Obasanjo as " Dare Obansajo (program manager on backend)". I shivered at the prospect of Dare having anything to say about my back end. I bet he would whip me back into shape quickly, but it would mean lots less programming and lots less blogging...

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Count your popularity with Orkut?

Robert! (she said, with hands on hips! I'm allowed cause I'm older - nah nah nah) What you say in your post here , is just why I left Orkut a month ago!...

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Raymond Chen says "no thanks orkut"

http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/10/70639.aspx

Liz Lawley on social software- "Step away from the laptop..."

lest we forget how important our human contacts are...

figured out value of orkut

Brian Dear wrote about an “orkut moment” he had recently, which led me to the realization that in most cases, orkut is a good way to just see what people look like. My account is still active , so I just looked him up (knowing he is a member) and now I know what he looks like. Of course there...

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I quit orkut

I did it. I quit. maybe someday there will be value. Right now it looks to me like nothing more than a public popularity contest.

Orkut invites for sale on E-Bay

oh give me a break!

an orkut joke

Christian Crumlish sent an email out to his entire network (if mine's 30,000+, I'm sure his is at least that) subject: is orkut over? text: looks like everybody got bored. does anyone have tetris? heh heh......

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