Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Steve
Earlier this week I wrote about Google’s TOS (terms of service) which grant Google an irrevocable right over the content you post through their service. I took a look at Twitter’s terms of service, and found a rather different story which I thought is worth mentioning:
We claim no intellectual property rights over the material [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Steve
When it comes to who actually owns the content you post online on your favorite social networking sites, the devil is in the details.
I happened across a great blog post from Chris Bucchere, founder and CEO of BDG – the folks behind The Social Collective. In response to a post about Robert Scoble losing his [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Steve
There’s been a slew of stories about people posting embarrassing or boneheaded things on their Twitter or Facebook profiles without realizing that their boss, friends or clients could see the posting, and that it ultimately led to disaster – stories including pictures of people spending the night partying, lying about calling in sick, or [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Steve
Here’s my impression of a web 2.0 company making a pitch to a venture capital firm from between 2006-2008: I’ve got this really great idea to build this service that everyone will love, no one will be able to live without, people will tell all their friends about, and users will add their own content. [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2009 by Steve
IBM announced a new SaaS offering for collaboration at their Lotusphere 2009 conference, dubbed LotusLive. There appears to be three main offerings to LotusLive: Networking and Collaboration, Web Conferencing, and LotusLive Email services – which appears to be a version of Lotus Notes in a web-based format.
According to the company press release:
LotusLive is [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Steve
Two things about ESN (enterprise social networking) and ESC (enterprise social computing) solutions bother me. One: often times people talk about the features using empty buzzwords that fail to succinctly describe what people really want to do. Second: a lot of proclaimed ESN/ESC tools get lumped together, even though they really only offer a partial [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Steve
Social aggregator site Power.com, which allows users to access multiple social networking sites from one interface, got in trouble recently with Facebook. Facebook sued Power.com for storing Facebook user credentials within their own database and scraping what Facebook called "proprietary data" (i.e. user data). Facebook and Power.com are working towards an agreement to settle [...]
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