LinkedIn is awesome, except when you land on a user's profile and it's full of holes. There's too much information that's hidden from the public, even though it's actually publicly available.
LinkedIn Reveal changes that. It's a smart Google Chrome extension that shows you what's hidden on LinkedIn user profiles.
I made it, so check it out and ask me what ever you want to about it! :)
Your perception and inference are both wrong. App.net isn't just going up against twitter, but rather the entire social networking paradigm where I have multiple signups and not enough use. If we use app.net to login to most major services and post, like I have to do with twitter, facebook and linkedin right now, I get away with a single login.
What'll drive adoption? The developer incentive program. This also answers your John Deere example... There will be a lot of offsprings from App.net. In a rudimentary tone - a fb-clone, an instagram clone, comments systems (bit.ly/qbdebut)etc...
I believe that companies need to give people the freedom to innovate. Otherwise they're just code monkeys who care only for the paycheck at the end of the month.
I feel it's a legit idea. Some of us are really interested in new services. Most importantly, a service should not judge it's success by the number of sign ups (like G+ does) but on the number of interactions/service calls that it's users do over a period of time (twitter way of accounting itself).
well, one way forward is to have the moderator's role more clearly defined. This is a society that no one runs in essence. Thus, the good way to deal with it would be a little bit of tech as I described above and some more moderating...
This is a scenario that I have expected to hear about since a long time. Places like India and China are easily prone to corruption and data theft. What needs to be investigated is the role of the administration of such call centers in the theft. After all, why is this data not sufficiently protected by encryption? Why is an employee able to leave the premises with a laptop full of live data and who needs to sign off on such devices. The only way to stop this is to have better security in place for customer data in call center databases.
I'm sure they'll find some countries where simple air balloons by citizens will be allowed. And the real way to go ahead is to think about launching a satellite...