Yes that is correct…me, Brian Balfour can see the future. In my last post about a company called Visible Path I talked about how they data mined a persons network by monitoring your email, instant messages, address book, etc. I summed up the post by saying: “So why haven’t they made any significant waves in the vast ocean of online social networks? Their software is only available to medium - large companies who are willing to pay big bucks to implement it. This is unfortunate because I could see this being very powerful if they opened it up...

Thanks to Martin Burns for pointing me to this company. Visible Path is one of the many companies trying to capitalize on corporate social networking. From their website: “Visible Path transforms the way large companies leverage relationship capital to drive top-line revenue growth. The Visible Path platform applies the science of social network analysis to allow professionals to access the entire enterprise’s trusted relationship network without invading privacy or compromising relationships.” There is one aspect of their technology that I find very unique and...

I find this hilarious…I think that means I’m a big dork. http://www.collegehumor.com/update:1706078ÂÂ

It only takes a two second look of Xiaonei.com homepage to realize that the founder had no qualms copying every aspect of facebook, even down to its design. Looks like it paid off though. Oak Pacific Interactive, a Chinese internet company, has announced that it acquired Xiaonei.com for an undisclosed amount and will integrate its Xiaonei’s 1 million members with its already existing social network. Eventhough I don’t condone this type of action, Facebook had it coming. On numerous occasions Zuckerberg and his PR staff have said they are not interested...

I’ve received some emails lately on why I haven’t been blogging much lately. A part of it is because I am short on time with my new job and side projects. But yesterday I unfortunately also realized that I have been finding it harder and harder to find topics and new social networks to write about. Why? Because it seems as if the social networking space is declining in quality new sites, in exchange for high numbers. The boom of social networking has cluttered the space with hundreds, if not thousands, of poor quality social networks. The thinking...

I know this post isn’t specifically about social networking, but I know a lot of my readers are entrepreneurs or involved in a startup. I found the following list from Paul Graham titled “The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups” to be a must read for any entrepreneur. I couldn’t agree more with this list. In fact, I definitely made a few of them with my first company. Most notably “Hiring Bad Programmers” and “Slowness in Launching.” [tags]Social Networking, Social Network, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Brian Balfour[/tags]

Have you ever saw a commercial or advertisement, laughed to yourself, and thought “What the hell were they thinking?” That is what I thought when I saw OpenBC’s promo video for their new re-branded site Xing (See Video Here). If you can manage to sit through the painful three minute experience, please tell me how this video is going to help Xing sign up more members? Not only does the video tell you absolutely nothing about the sites features, but it just repeats meaningless statements followed by a person crossing their two index fingers in the formation of an...