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Facebook - not a social network, more a social directory

Corporations jump on the bandwagon of social networks. Four years ago Andrew McAfee wrote the book "Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration". Just recently, the Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff asked in his techcrunch post, "why isn't all enterprise software like Facebook?"

And obviously software vendors of company directories and LDAP using services add social features to their functionalities. 

It is an obvious evolution, because Facebook isn't really a social network. It is more like a classic people listing service for your social life - a social directory service. Facebook has taken the good old company directory and made it a public directory with social features. It is centralised and locked, very much like the one at work, though you have more freedom changing and using it for your purposes.

Filed under  //  Enterprise 2.0   Facebook   Salesforce   group services   social networks  
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Posted by Moritz Schroeder 
 

Sorry for the (now deleted) test posts on qompute and 1moment :-)

[As I am writing this post as an email, I always am tempted to start writing something like "Dear Reader" :-) ]

When testing, something always can have unintentional results. In this case, I have (and still am) exploring Posterous, a service that some call light-blog or tumbl-blog. The most interesting feature is the possibility to send a post via email. Nothing unique about that function, Blogger, Wordpress and also Tumblr and Soup.io have it - as I guess have most blog-like publishing services.
What makes it special is the way Posterous handles attached files, the way you can fine-tune autoposting to other size by playing with email address, such as flickr+facebook@posterous.com, or #qompute@posterous.com, the way you can include tags for example by adding ((tags:qompute, 1moment)) in subject title line.
Enough about that, so what happened regarding my erroneously published posts on 1moment.org and qompute.net? To play around with posterous, I created a special blog for this purpose: creativeposting.posterous.com including it's cousins on Blogger and Wordpress, ie creativeposting.blogspot.com and creativeposting.wordpress.com. 
I enabled creativeposting.posterous.com as a group blog. On the groups details I added the two external cousin blogs. As the group email address is post@creativeposting.posterous.com I assumed wrongly that the autoposting settings of my general Posterous account would be ignored. They were not, lesson learned.
I have deleted qompute from my general posterous autposts and moved it to the group settings of qompute.posterous.com. The addresses I am using for this are:

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Posted by Moritz Schroeder 
 

a second test email

does this really work? My first email has not appeared yet!

 

(and just edited from posterous website.)

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Posted by Andy Swarbrick 
 

test via email

this is coming in to posterous from my email

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Posted by Andy Swarbrick 
 

andy testing...

a new post at the bottom of the garden.

(this post is now edited.)

Filed under  //  rubbish  
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Posted by Andy Swarbrick