« Mountain-Watching in Thin Air | Main | Einstein: "I am still a fire-spewing Vesuvius." » Love Minus Zero DegreesAlready tracking several artificial social network applications, I passed on Zero Degrees, one of the latest... however I ran across disturbing posts today about an unfortunate glitch in Zero Degrees' process. Evidently the site invites you to upload your contacts, then emails them without allowing you to make choices. Aggressive. Joi also notes how another SN application, Spoke, "Spoke takes all of your email address from your headers and makes a network out of them." On the one hand, sites that give visibility to your social network and allow you to manage and reference some part of it can be useful, as I've found wiith the several I use (Orkut, Tribe, LinkedIn, Ryze). On the other hand, the obvious business model for these sites is about bringing on as many "nodes" as possible, and it's tempting to find increasingly aggressive ways to increase the pool of potential users. I can't help but think this will backfire, it's pretty irritating. Links: Ross Mayfield at Many to Many; Christopher Allen at Life With Alacrity. jon posted this at 11:46 PM |
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Minor correction, it is Christopher Allen at Life With Alacrity ;-)
Posted by: Christopher Allen | April 21, 2004 3:11 AM
Fixed it, thanks.
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | April 21, 2004 8:37 AM
Hmm, I just looked at yoru post, and it still says Alexander rather then Allen.
Posted by: Christopher Allen | April 22, 2004 8:40 PM
Oh, heh... I was speaking a pattern language!
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | April 22, 2004 8:57 PM