Archive for the ‘Social’ Category

Matt Cohler leaving Facebook

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Matt Cohler announced he was leaving Facebook; the interview from TechCrunch. The move to Benchmark Capital was surprising to me as I always thought of Matt as the Steve Ballmer of Facebook.   Being early stage at both Linked In and Facebook, Matt is clearly in charge of the secret sauce of ...

Social Diversity on Social Networks

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Marc Meyer asked a question on Linked In that I answered. He writes about it here at Emerson Direct. "Can social networking help the poor and the disadvantaged? ...social diversity can exist on may levels in online social networks, and is and can be accessible by more than just the privledged, ...

On Neighbours, Neighbors and Friends

Monday, November 12th, 2007

New TownConnect member (and our first Canadian member), Heather Ross, blogs on Neighbours: "Think about this for a moment. Under any other circumstances, would you be friends with your neighbours (assuming of course that you are friends with them now)? If you worked at the same place or went to ...