Update on Scoble v Facebook

Just a quick update: Scoble was testing an upcoming feature of Plaxo Pulse that imports friend data from facebook into Plaxo. What’s strange is that facebook allows you to search your Yahoo, Hotmail, gmail and IM accounts to find contacts, but they do not allow other applications to do the same. I mean, I guess [...]

I’ll Take My Profile To Go

Facebook deleted Robert Scoble’s profile because he was running an automated script to export his contacts. This is today’s big story…….or is it? The real story here is data portability. It’s an issue that has been bubbling up under the surface with the rise of social networking. When you spend the time creating a network [...]

Tackling the Writing Process

While it’s true we kept a relatively light posting schedule throughout the holidays (if by “we” you mean “Nate”), you may have noticed that my contribution to Blogstring has been sporadic lately. I attribute this to being rather busy managing CustomScoop’s new magazine, Media Bullseye, and the strain of the holidays–but I fear it may [...]