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LinkedIn suits up

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology LinkedIn suits up December 10, 2007 LinkedIn, the serious MBA wielding brother to the Facebook fratboy and the MySpace rockergrrl, is really putting on the suit now. Be Helpful.

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Tidbits

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Myspace is going with OpenID ! Is this a bad thing? That’s a great step. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? More on that in a later post. { More on that in a later post. { Be Helpful.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Based in the U.K., 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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What OpenSocial Means

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Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets. One of the big issues about social network platforms was that once Facebook made its platform available, and MySpace and LinkedIn followed, it looked like developers would have to port their apps to each social network. Be Helpful.

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What is private? What is public?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Rapleaf digs into the usual social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Just send the company your e-mail list and tell it what social networking sites those on your list are using, their demographics, the numbers of friends they have, how many widgets they’re using, even their interests. Be Helpful.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? .&# Well, I already trust them, so I joined them. I then decided, why not – let’s find out who else is on Spock.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. Nick Carr, one of my favorite smart dudes, calls it digital sharecropping : What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content.