Do you find Facebook a helpful tool for maintaining and growing business contacts, or are you contemplating what Harvard Online editor Paul Michelman is about to do: "Defriend" all his business contacts. As a business tool, says Michelman, Facebook is not working, and it's...
Sometimes social networking gets a little too social. Just ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who this week penned a very public mea culpa for introducing a new "feature" called Beacon that divulged Facebook users' shopping habits to people in their networks. Facebook and other innovators...
Ludicrous question, right? But you youngsters gather round, because us old 'uns with a few gray hairs recall that precise question being subject of hot debate about a dozen years ago, when there actually was a "browser war" and we all wondered if Alta Vista would ever...
Forget Microsoft Office and Excel. Your next powerful business tool could be Facebook. In a post earlier this month, Andy McAfee, a Harvard Business School professor and an expert on Web 2.0 technologies and their applications in business, argues that social networking software brings certain types of...