[IxDA Discuss] IxDA Group on LinkedIn

[Christine Boese]

While I despise walled garden in principle as much as the next person, I
draw the line at leaving myself open for spam harvesters and junk mail
people, to say nothing of casino and penis enlargement fixations.

The walls on Linked In and Facebook guard what needs guarding, imho. The New
York Times does not need guarding, and TimeSelect is gone gone gone. Now
tell me, why aren't more of the deep archives open?! (I know why, it's a
rhetorical question)

Chris

On 9/26/07, Robert Barlow-Busch <bbb at terapath.net> wrote:
>
> > I don't
> > agree that LinkedIn is a "walled garden", but it seems that there
> > is some speculation as to what Juhan meant by that.
>
> Typically, "walled garden" social networks are those whose data is
> available
> only to members -- Facebook, for instance (profiles are now open to Google
> search, but you'll see very little aside from the person's name unless you
> join Facebook and become their friend somehow).
>
> LinkedIn seems to have very low walls around its garden: public profiles
> visible to search engines can be quite rich with data.
>
> --
> Robert Barlow-Busch
> http://www.chopsticker.com
>
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