I've been wrestling with this problem for a few years, I'm curious to see how Adaptive Blue's new Glue product tackles it. The problem focuses on how to adequately manage privacy concerns when user information is passively contributed to a community or social network.
In active contribution, it's pretty straightforward. I may actively bookmark an article on delicious, actively share a post on friendfeed, actively add a connection on LinkedIn, actively post my whereabouts on Twitter. The systems have different privacy options (keep private, restrict to your connections, make public, etc), but since this functionality is often difficult to understand, and often keeps changing (along with privacy policies) the general rule of thumb seems to be to only actively post what you comfortable being public.
We spent a lot of time at Visible Path building tools that helped individual sales reps sell more effectively. Lately, I've been working on determining what, if any, critical insights can be drawn by analyzing different communications patterns inside and between companies. Here's a quick survey for folks in sales management...
A list of people, companies, organizations, and associations paying attention to attention. Market leaders or companies to watch are listed in bold (not yet complete):
There's a fair amount of buzz about Fire Eagle, Yahoo's new location service, at the Web 2.0 expo this week, where the Yahoo! team has been promoting invites to the private beta of Fire Eagle and a new application called Fireball has launched. There is good information available on the web, but the best explanation is Tom Coates presentation at ETech in San Diego last month:
All three are anchored in the tech industry, which makes it even more interesting that all three discount technical solutions:
Mr. Cuban and Mr. Arrington
likewise could resort to a technological solution, preparing an
auto-response for their public e-mail accounts that would warn
strangers that the volume of e-mail precluded even a skimming, let
alone dispatching responses. Yet both have resisted that course. (From the NYT)
But there are a few technical products that aim to save a user from email overload:
