Good news - we know that as the credit crunch bites there are quite a few people who’d love to attend the NLab Social Networks Conference but can’t spare two whole days away from the office or commit funds to the full delegate fee.
That’s why we’ve condensed two days into one and found a way to make it free to attend..
From Wired news that Google Launches Medical-Records App. Hmm, wonder if they resolved the controversy over their health advisory board?..
Hmm, interesting..click to read more: Why’d You Have To Go And Make Things So Complicated? When Data Portability was first announced, it sounded like it would solve what had become one of the biggest problems in the social networking space: a seemingly endless array of new services, each of which required you to setup and [...]
Technorati Profile I get the following error message when trying to advance my claim. Any suggestions please?: Proxy ErrorThe proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.The proxy server could not handle the request POST /account/blogs/postclaim. Reason: Error reading from remote server Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying [...]
Hmm, interesting, remind sme researching the 1997 speach on the internet for Anita Roddick reading some PR guy in the US saying there’d be ‘blood on the carpet’ over UGC. I don’t see any blood. UGC ‘must be managed and controlled’ 15/05/2008 User-generated content (UGC) can be a highly beneficial [...]
Hmm, interesting point on how user data portability move might effect likes of market leaders like Facebook’s social networking site though my instinct tells me that’s a red herring, though. It’s more on the theme of “its not about your website, its about your prescence on the web that counts” and I’m sure Facebook is well ahead of the game in seeing where that’s going..
In the FT today..useful thoughts if you manage a user generated content site in the UK. BTW defamation law is part of journalist’s law training. Maybe someone should do a course on law for bloggers?
PS: I spoke to a helpful contact in the Department of Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform who said the area was down to [...]
EA are moving into social networking with purchase of site set up by Napster’s Shawn Fanning..
It just occurred to my trivia-obsessed brain that I work just round the corner from the Bank of England (see front) and live just round the corner in Barking where Elizabeth Fry is buried (see back). Five pounds please.
Interesting report from PC World in US in growth in corporate social networking. I particularly like dthe concluding paragraphs as they ring tru for my experience — some art as well as science then?: Businesses planning to implement social networking need to bear in mind the major implementation issues are not technical issues, Happe warned. [...]