Category Archives: Social Networking

The facebook problem

Posted on February 27, 2011 by alex

When a for-profit company gives you something for free, with little chance of ever charging, you have to ask, “who is the customer and what is the product?” Facebook has (reputedly) 500 million users, none of whom pay a penny … Continue reading →

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MyIET – not another networking silo, please

Posted on November 27, 2010 by alex

The  IET, or Institution of Engineering and Technology, is introducing ‘MyIET’, which is a member’s personal portal on the IET website. However, it’s also got status updates like twitter, a discussions and comments forum, etc. It looks like they have … Continue reading →

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