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Edward Sussman at Fastcompany writes:-

“We’re an entirely new community of people brought together because we want to share ideas about business. We like business. We think it’s important. Work gives more meaning to our lives. We believe business profoundly helps define our culture.”

and quotes Mark Zuckerberg “A pure social network tries to recreate what Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook calls the “social graph” of a community that already exists.”

This is like asking “Which Came First, The Chicken or The Egg? .

I will just say this :-

FastCompany is a well established brand and has quality readers from 1995, so you don’t have to compare yourself with Facebook or any other social networks and write something like “we are a new community”, you just changed your site design , improved reader registration and trying help members to network with each other, even if you claim you are social network for business that’s  ok you are a great brand. After reading lot of analysis about fastcompany’s recent changes and listening to lot of web strategy experts like me It’s better to do this “Listen to your readers, do what they want you to do in your new website”.

John Gapper at FT made a very important comment on American Football

American football is a much tougher and more strategic game that requires lots of players, lots of padding and quite a bit of grand strategy.

I really like this video

.. Took a break from Blogging, back to blogging from today.

Click here to check whether your mail server is listed in spam block list servers.

Read this interesting article(MSN) about controlling spam.

IronPort, a leading antispam-technology company, says that 63 billion spam messages were sent in October 2006, more than double the number of messages dispatched in October 2005.

If you are using MoveableType 3.2 as your Blogging platform , most probably your blog is hit by comments spam. I have installed SCode CAPTCHA plugin from Movablog for one of my MoveableType blog. SCode is an anti-spam plugin that generates a CAPTCHA (or security image) that commenters must enter when commenting, this verifies that the comment was made by a human being and not using a spambot. I find SCode/CAPTCHA has helped to control comments spam.

Marketers and Leading mesaurement companies will be soon discussing whether to abandon page views, as a metric for measuring website popularity as more and more website use AJAX for web page development. Do you think this will happen soon?. Jesse James Garret at Adaptive Path says AJAX has come along to force the industry to change the measuring metric. I think it takes lot of time to change something that has be considered industry standard, may be after 5 years James!:). Let’s wait and see.

Jesse James Garrett, the Adaptive Path LLC president who publicly coined the “Ajax” term two years ago, suggests scrapping page views entirely.

“Page views have been a broken metric for a long time, and the industry has tried to put a good face on that,” he said. “Now a new technology has come along to force the industry to deal with the fact that page views are … not a good way of measuring audience engagement.” See here

Microsoft adCenter Labs Demographics prediction for my blog.