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The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and
is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
Dave maintains four weblogs:
The Business Blog at Intuitive.com,
Ask Dave Taylor,
Dave On Film,
and
Attachment Parenting Blog.
Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.
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The nightly popularity contest of social networks
As I am currently many time zones away from just about everyone who reads this blog (I'm on Hawaiian time) when I wake up and first check my email, it's already mid-day on the continental United States and I am noting an interesting phenomenon: with all the social network notifications that I receive, every morning is like a mini-popularity contest now.
Well, maybe a popularity contest of just me, because I can't see what level of invites other people are getting, of course!
Whether it's someone who is now following my Twitter feed or FriendFeed, or friended me on Facebook, LinkedIn or even become my pal on Digg, it's a fascinating experience. (I don't get notifications from MySpace because I receive 20-40 friend requests each day, usually from spambots)
This morning, for example, I wake up to see that Steve Rubel has subscribed to my FriendFeed, Kealeboga Segola has added me as a friend on Facebook, Dave Henderson and condredege are now following me on Twitter and Marvin Turner, JD MBA has forwarded me an introduction on LinkedIn.
I wonder whether the growing popularity of social networks is simply because of this daily affirmation that we're popular and have even more friends than we did yesterday...
The one that seems weirdest to me is when people are desperate to Twitter a certain amount, or they announce they have just made 1,000 updates, etc. It doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment - just like noise to me.
Anyway, enjoy Hawaii! Wish I were there with you and Andy.. for a serious marketing mind meld and then catching some waves ;)
Posted by: Brett Borders on March 13, 2008 1:02 PMI agree Dave. Now, will you now accept my MySpace friend request?
Posted by: Rob McNealy on March 13, 2008 1:15 PMDave,
Don't twitter away all of your vacation time there in Hawaii......!....it's cold here in Boulder.
The spambot problem on MySpace is unmanageable. At first I thought my photo was really workin' with the ladies, but all of them seem to want to sleep with me so I'm getting suspicious.
Posted by: Michael Angelo Caruso on March 23, 2008 5:12 PM
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