Social Issues Surround Social Software

“If you build it, they will come.” That was definitely the mantra of the online world for the first few years. Then, people became obsessed with building traffic to their sites. Which makes sense if you're revenue model depends on advertising, but for many of the sites I used to work on if we succeeded…

There is a new update available for this promising new collaboration and IM tool. The folks at Shinkuro have added a very interesting feature, the ability to share buddy/friend lists. Based off the principle of social networking you can request to see a friend's contacts, then add them to your set of friends. I can…

Steve Gillmor's latest article makes the claim that because MS has been focused on fixing IE's security holes they unwittingly paved the way for RSS. Hmm, I'm not sure. But I'll say one thing for sure, because MS has been abcent from this space there has been some great devlopment in this area. Gillmor cites…

Michael kindly IMed me last night (evening for him, night for me) to remind me to read the Parlano whitepaper that I had downloaded and to ask my take on it before he posted his review. I read it this morning, then read his review. I like Michael's take on and do read his review…

Another free RSS reader. I haven't tried this. I've started using NewsGator (and even paid for it!). I like being able to keep posts in Outlook to forward and archive. But this looks like a decent, full-featured application that is worth a look if you're still trying to find a favorite tool. RSSOwl | RSS…

I haven't used LimeWire, but what I think is more interesting is the explicit statement that there is no SpyWare. Pluck (from yesterday) made the same promise (no Spyware, no Adware). Obviously companies are seeing the backlash against this practice. Personally I think it is a good thing, but I think it will also mean…