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Google just released a preview of their new Google Friend Connect service.
Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.
This is not a social network by itself, this is something that enables you to turn your own web site into a social network. I can’t wait to try it myself on this blog and build my own social network…
Last Saturday I was chatting with my colleague David about communication issues inside the enterprise. As architects, some of our objectives are to coach the development teams, publicize the architecture and the frameworks and promote new technologies. We were wondering how we could improve the communication and especially make it more fluid.
Yesterday, inspired by Twitter, I setup a Skype public chat group for the company I currently work for. This morning I sent a mail to almost everyone and started to disseminate information about the group in the corporate wiki.
And almost nothing happened, only a few people showed up and no communication occurred. I am sure this a good idea, but I think something as to actually happen to demonstrate its usefulness, may be we need to bootstrap the flow by starting to push information instead of waiting for questions to come.
Yeah, exactly like micro-blogging on Twitter :)
As far as finding a job/project is concerned do you think that having a lot of recommendations can be considered suspect?
What would be “too many” and can it vary depending on geography/culture?
This is the question I asked on the LinkedIn network and if you feel like sharing your thoughts about this then you can either comment this post or go to LinkedIn.
I am wondering because last Monday I asked the near-to-be-former colleagues I am connected to to endorse me on LinkedIn. And the result is pretty impressive with 17 recommendations so far and certainly more to come.
Only 8 of them are actually visible right now. Not being shown on my profile is not a mark of disregard, I really thank every people that took the time to write something for me, even the smallest blurb!
However, I decided to make a choice and display only recommendations from my managers, my closest co-workers and non-technical people.
I did this because I though I would be suspicious seeing a profile with a lot of recommendations. I might be biased, however. My father being a former cop in the French police I learned to be wary of anything unusual (this can be technically useful but is socially terrible).
Hence the question, any hint welcome :)
2008-04-11 Update: After 14 answers on LinkedIn I decided I will show all the recommendation I received.
Here it is,
After 6 years in Odyssey (minus 6 months failing to build a product and 3 months escaping burnout in China) I am leaving…
Those interested will ask where do I go? Nowhere! I am going solo, freelance, whatever… I am going free!
And one of the first thing I will do is to attend Going-Solo, on the 16th of May, a conference held in Lausanne about being a Freelancer and organized by Stephanie Booth.
Stephanie, thank you for the perfect timing!
Lift has ended now.
I will not comment on the various speakers and themes (although I really liked Kevin Warwick’s and I have been left with a question) others have done that and they are much more gifted than I am in that area.
I just wanted to say a big “thank you” to the Lift team, the organization was great and this was an enjoyable experience.
Thank you all for your work, see you next year.
