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• They advertise the hell out of scrabble

  But do they do it right? If you've played scrabulous on Facebook then you've, no doubt, experienced the cramped feeling of your scrabble board surrounded by ads that are reaching out, tapping you on the head, and saying "look at me!"... Posted Nov 03 2007, 03:54 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: social networking, Facebook, commentary, ads

• What Apps do you Rock on your Phone?

  Apparently the iPhone club ran out of cool people to "tag" in their little discussion about what pages they browse to most frequently on their expensive phones. Well, since my phone has had an SDK for a lot longer than theirs I'm going to... Posted Oct 23 2007, 01:50 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: social networking, Facebook, commentary, opinion, video, music

• What I'm Reading and Writing - Testing a WLW Plugin

  I have a shared items feed from google reader , but I've been struggling with how to share that content more broadly through my main blog feed. I didn't like mirroring my shared items since it felt like content stealing and I share more than I... Posted Oct 21 2007, 04:29 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: social networking, Facebook, blogging, community server, Microsoft, mindless linkage, commentary, Forums, marketting, Live Writer Feed Inserter Thingy

• Are You Ready for Smarter Spenders Bursting Your Bubble?

  Is your company, web site, or business model ready for the smarter customer spending habits being created by data transparency? The world of data transparency is one where anyone can access, slice, dice, pivot, and extrapolate on their own about your... Posted Oct 19 2007, 12:06 AM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: social networking, commentary, opinion, marketting

• Fixing The Problem with Niche Communities and Sub-Groups

  In the next release Community Server will support "Groups". I love the feature, but it could create a new problem for community site managers. How do you manage the creation and population of these sub-communities on your site? I tend to agree... Posted Aug 23 2007, 09:08 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: social networking, Facebook, telligent, blogging, community server, commentary, opinion, Forums, red sox

• The Opposite of Community Server is?

  I had an amazing week in Dallas despite the 112 degree daily heat index. It seriously felt like walking outside was getting into a hot car. Getting into a hot car was more like deciding to stick your head into the oven. Helping out with Planning for Telligent... Posted Aug 19 2007, 02:40 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: social networking, Facebook, telligent, community server, commentary, work

• No Sense Linking up Twice

  I remember when I started working at Microsoft. Everyone there used MSN Messenger (if they used IM... most didn't at first) and I was the new guy from college that used AIM because all my friends where there. If a friend was on both AIM and MSN I... Posted Jul 07 2007, 11:26 PM by Josh Ledgard's Blog Filed under: social networking, Facebook, mindless linkage, commentary, opinion