DISQUS

Great article on user-visible features of Google Wave.

For a look at the technology behind the features, see http://preview.tinyurl.com/mnys46

The claim makes total sense. The Bush Administration has been the gift that keeps on giving to Al-Qaida: a strong recruitment and motivator for would-be jihadists.

Bush administration has cultivated a new generation of terrorists with every one that gets killed.

An Obama administration will drain the swamp of polarization and hate on which Al-Qaida thrives.

I am a guy who met Alsop at an industry conference and spoke to him briefly about a business venture. I said I would followup after the conference. Afterwards I found him on Facebook and sent him a friend request with a message referring to the conversation. He sent a rude rejection.

Now after your reading your article I see what kind of business he tries to do on Facebook. If I were his kids I'd be embarrassed.

Great post, Louis.

An interesting aspect is that there is a correlation with size of company.

The smaller companies (the startups, the agile brainy entrepreneurial ventures) are 90% to 100% Obama.

The larger companies (HP, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe) are still overwhelmingly for Obama, but more like 75% to 90%

Regarding: "They [the Obama voters] didn't show up."
This does not make sense, given the larger than expected turnout.
Polls are usually taken of "likely" voters, no?
So if anything the polls were measuring a non-representative subset of the population that actually showed up to vote.
The Obama voters (the ones measured in the polls) DID show up, most likely.
The problem is that a whole bunch of other voters showed up, and those voters did not break for Obama as much as extrapolated by the pollsters.

I joined Facebook because they are, relatively speaking, diligent custodians of my personal data.

I am glad Facebook detects and disables automatic scraping of my data by erstwhile "friends".

The blogosphere is reacting to a rather distorted summary by a 3rd party. The Gartner report is actually more positive than negative about social networking, and its purpose is to point some pitfalls to avoid, for those organizations that have chosen to engage in enterprise social computing.

Some excerpts from the actual report:

Corporate social networking solutions are generally good products and offer some security advantages over Internet-based social networking sites. However, IT departments would do well in realizing that ultimately the value of social networking resides in content and not code.....

* IT departments should focus their primary attention not on products but on the human factors that affect the uptake of social networking technology. On that basis, Internet-based social networking solutions [such as Facebook and LinkedIn] offer IT departments a no-cost way to achieve that outcome.

* IT departments shouldn’t overplay the security risks of Internet-based social networking sites.

* IT departments should consider making social networking investment decisions on a component-by-component basis rather than as a suite.