It might have been on c|net’s site for 8 years, but I just randomly discovered their “Big Picture” feature — by attaching associated links form their stories, this flash app can create a visual map, showing connected stories or companies featured on their site: For every story published, News.com editors and reporters included relevant links […]
Talk about serendipity! I can count on one or two paws the number of times I've clicked on a Google AdSense ad. But in reading my inbox in Gmail, someone wriote about blog writing, and there was a link to Free Web Word Processor for your Blog.  I bit and look what I got!  it's […]
And maybe instead, we can get it with 5 minutes, no bullet points, no lecturing in Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, a YouTube gem: This comes from Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University, “a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital […]
It was time to make the run to upping this WordPress site to the current version, 2.1, nicknamed “Ella”. Hey, it is jazzy! There are promises of better code under the hood and some new features I’ve yet to really look much into. I’m pretty religious about following the upgrade instructions, backing up the static […]
Thanks to a for:cogdog tag in del.icio.us from D’Arcy, I am currently auto messaging my Twitter account just by publishing this post. Nice! Now I might keep twittering a bit longer. This is done by courtesy of Vicissitude’s Twitter Updater WordPress plugin where you can specify your account, what activities it triggers updates for, and […]
I’ve waxed often on my love of Google Reader and of the personalized, gadget/widget laden Google Home page, but now I am all googly about Google in my Google. Huh? A few days ago I added the module for Google Reader to be a part of my Google home page: This sits along side the […]
After a few more days following my foray into two social network apps, I have a completely, non-scientific, suspect, un-analytical conclusion no one should take seriously. Twitter is a heck of a lot more fun and gratifying than LinkedIn. I’ve heard the comments, and accept them as true for them, that people get a lot […]
The CogDogBlog has been un-snapped. Back in December I experimented with adding the capability offered by Snap.com that with some additional calls to a remote JavaScript library in your blog templates, it adds a small web site preview when you mouse-over a link external from your site. I found it interesting, sometimes in the way […]
I just love it when I find something cool on the web by accident. We Blog Cartoons does something almost no other cartoon site does– it lets you republish the cartoons without any copyright restrictions (how many times have you used that New Yorker one about “no one in the internet knows you are a […]
I am being sarcastic, but am curious as to the point where we have so many social network tools, accounts, and activities, that we do nothing but link together. With some trepididation, I actually fell into two more today (LinkedIn and Twitter), with some interesting comparisons on the experience.
Over the past months or more, I;ve gotten a number of those invitations to join LinkedIn:
LinkedIn is an online network of more than 9 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 130 industries.
When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.
Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to thousands of qualified professionals.
And yes, that reads like glowing MarketSpeak. It seemed fro my rather uninformed outside view, that the sole activity in LinkedIn as adding to the number of people you were connected with, like the network itself was its own purpose. A number of participants, a whole lot, on the Second Life Educators list (stop the groaning, you SL crows, that is another post in the works) were sharing their LinkedIn accounts, suggesting it was a good way to network. And Barry Joseph shared a lot of concrete connections he has made through the network.
I can look past MarketSpeak, but when people I respect are dabbling in a new tool, I;m willing to take a look. I made some quick edits to a profile, and I am “in” http://www.linkedin.com/in/cogdog. Basically, it seems, LinkedIn is a ginat database, and it cross references the things in your profile to find others in your field, or who worked at the same MacDonalds you did, or went to your high school, and you can also explore the connections from those you connect with.
Sounds all very 2.0ish.
