This is the second in a series of four posts regarding managing your career with the help of technology.  I've chosen the title words very carefully as I wanted to talk about the life-long process of career management not to be confused with the job search process.  Oh for sure...

Reading up on the ins and outs of LiveJournal’s employee purge got me pondering a larger topic–the idea of the continuing evolution of interactions on the Web. As some of the Valleywag commenters note, what makes LJ unique is that it’s not strictly a blogging platform or a social n...

At Compendium Blogware, our passion and drive is to ensure that companies are leveraging their content to its fullest potential to increase overall business results. We have a very different approach than the typical blogging consultancy: We have a Software as a Service platform that is years ahead ...

Yahoo continues to make strides to improve its OpenID implementation. Thursday it announced limited testing for Simple Registration, which supplies profile data once a user logs in with their Yahoo OpenID. Currently it is only testing Plaxo and Jyte. The experience logging in with Jyte is remarkable...

Tomorrow morning I am presenting to a Breakfast Club in New Haven. Its members want to know more about social networking. My job is to share honestly social networking's pros (value) and cons (downsides). Like any good social networker, I reached out to my social network on LinkedIn and Plaxo Pulse....

A panel discussion occurred in San Francisco on Tuesday at Supernova 2008. Among the attendee were Facebook, Google and Plaxo who discussed various definitions of openness and ended up in the current controversy between Google and Facebook over their friend-connecting APIs. On the point of who owns ...

Back in March, I bumped into rumors of FriendBinder, which, like other lifestreaming offerings including MyBlogLog, Plaxo Pulse, Profilactic and FriendFeed, claimed to offer a single destination to keep track of what your friends are doing on many different social networks. At the time, the author, ...

Did your friend really lose your number? Or did she just really delete it on purpose? The Art of Phone Book Deletion is becoming a commercialized one. It’s the most common excuse people give to those who’s numbers come in unregistered. Are phones that flimsy nowadays to have their phone books in...

Comcast has acquired Plaxo. In a deal worth $170 million dollars, Comcast is buying Plaxo in order to add social capabilities to their networks. We discussed the fit with Comcast, and concluded that it was a really smart buy.  We also discussed Verizon’s endorsement of LiMo yesterday, and wer...

There’s so much going on these days that it’s hard to keep up. And for boys and girls as obsessed with the Interwebs as we are, that’s a good thing. It’s exciting times. In fact, Mark Evans says that These Are the Best of Times, noting that “we’re living in the midst ...