Somehow, i failed to blog that Esther Dyson has a great article on the YASNS sphere.
Can you count your friends? Better yet, can you organize them in a database? There’s a lot of buzz about a new breed of software tools that can help people manage their contacts — or, to make it sound more serious, leverage their social capital.
It’s an educated warning to developers, investors. She brings up brilliant challenges to the hype
the internet always endangered privacy
Another one I found through Dana… connected selves: Buying and Selling the Little Black Book. Esther was one of the VCs at a recent “under the radar” event — basically a “social software meets WWF” face-off between LinkedIn, Spoke, VisiblePath,…