I noticed that my cousin was on this Twitter-like app called Plinky. Everyday, it asks you a different question, you answer the question, and you announce it. I’m sure this idea is not a new one—but Plinky is really done in terms of its interface. Sort of reminds me of Pownce; however, Pownce is now gone so maybe that isn’t the best comparison to make. Think about that 25 Things craze that’s been going around Facebook, only daily.
I went to a talk by a manager at LinkedIn and he was talking about how different their social network is. First of all, they were the last (and probably last ever) social network to add a photos app. More importantly, LinkedIn is not about who you know, but who your contacts know. The second degree. They run into all these interesting challenges because of the dynamics of their network. For example, whereas Facebook has the challenge of filtering an abundance of noise, LinkedIn has the opposite problem of locating a small bit of really useful info. The speaker also took a quick poll of how many people had LinkedIn accounts. Though it was more than he expected, he was not all that surprised. He said that our generation has no problems putting our identity online. For older generations, filling out profiles and personal information is a big hurdle.
A friend of mine sent me one of those purity tests and I started taking it. Not too many questions in, I realized how weird it was. There were some questions that I probably wouldn’t answer to my closest friends, yet somehow I was OK with telling the internet. I think I got to question 6.
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