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Status: Looking for Work on Facebook

innovation2 — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:50:47 +0000

AS anyone who has ever received a virtual Jagerbomb or fought off intergalactic cyber chickens knows, social-networking sites are designed to be entertaining. If there wasn’t so much fun to be had, there wouldn’t be so many articles warning that what you post on your profile — i.e., photos of you in a beer helmet and a tequila bandolier — could one day cost you a job.

Yet sites like Facebook, Friendster and MySpace are evolving beyond their reputations as procrastinators’ Xanadus.

With American consumer confidence at a 26-year low and one in seven workers telling the Pew Research Center that they fear they will be laid off, social-networking sites are becoming, for some users, platforms from which to network for job leads, to forge professional contacts or even to announce to friends that you are out of work.

Landing a job through a social network not designed for that purpose appears to be a rarity. But savvy users say the sites can be effective tools for promoting one’s job skills and all-around business networking. Even human resource professionals are encouraging people to log on.

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MySpace Developer Platform Goes Live (Sorta)

ron — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:44:33 +0000

MySpace is holding an event in San Francisco tomorrow with 250 application developers to ceremonially launch its application platform…for developers only, that is.

Over the next month, developers big and small will have the opportunity to begin developing applications for MySpace using the company’s new, OpenSocial-based APIs. Until that month has passed, only a maximum of ten or so users will be able to install each app at a time, ensuring that the period is used strictly for development, testing, and feedback purposes. MySpace has also not given any developers first dibs to the platform and is thereby opening up a fair playing field to all. The applications directory won’t be rolled out, and the user cap lifted, until March when the platform is effectively released for users as well.

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Zombies and Scrabble Knock-Offs to Invade MySpace

ron — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:18:03 +0000

MySpace is about to join Facebook, Bebo, Meebo and so many other stars in the Web 2.0 firmament in opening up its platform and giving developers a set of tools with which to build applications that can run, and make money, on its site.

Social networkers warned of risk

ron — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:58:36 +0000

A quarter of the 11 million Britons who use social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook may be leaving themselves open to identity fraud.

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The web is better when it’s social

ron — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:14:08 +0000

The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.

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Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly

ron — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:05:38 +0000

FACEBOOK is an island. A most convivial island, with one’s classmates, friends, workmates and family members close at hand. An island that since May has been enlivened with entertaining fauna and flora in the form of minisoftware applications. But it’s still an island.

Suppose, however, that you could leave the island compound of a social networking site and take your network of friends, and friends of friends, anywhere on the Web? This is what makes Google’s announcement last week of a new alliance of companies so enticing — the possibility that social networking will become ubiquitous.

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