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This blog is written by Dave Kellogg, CEO of MarkLogic Corporation, covering next-generation information management, enterprise search, and content management technologies along with commentary on Silicon Valley, venture capital, and the business of software.

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Entries Tagged as 'social networking'

I Just Shut Down FriendFeed

November 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments

I just deleted my FriendFeed account. Why? Several weeks back I decided to formalize my online presence a bit and to build two online social worlds for myself: a business one centered on LinkedIn and a personal one centered on Facebook. I decided that my life-friends didn’t want my Facebook feed polluted with automatic status-ing [...]

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Tags: friendfeed · social networking

Time Demonstrates Non-Understanding of Social Media

February 12th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Every once in a while old media reminds us that it really doesn’t understand new media. Consider, for example, this story by Claire Suddath in Time, 25 Things I Didn’t Want to Know About You. The story, which I found thanks to Peter O’Kelly’s Reality Check, ridicules the single hottest phenomenon on Facebook right now, [...]

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Tags: 25 Things · Facebook · News and Media · Publishing 2.0 · social networking

Holy Cow! I’m on the BusinessWeek Home Page

January 20th, 2009 · No Comments

One of my key rules for keeping this blog credible is to avoid the tendency to re-post stories without reading them or to write about new services without trying them. That means I’ll output fewer stories per week, but hopefully you’ll find the content richer and more meaningful. Thus, when McGraw-Hill launched BusinessExchange a while [...]

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Tags: BusinessExchange · Mark Logic · Publishing 2.0 · social networking

Correlations between Grateful Dead Fan Concert and Online Behavior

January 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment

First Monday, a peer-reviewed Internet journal run by the University of Illinois at Chicago recently published an article entitled A Grateful Dead Analysis: The Relationship Between Concert and Listening Behavior which I found interesting. Frequent readers will know that I’ve always believed the Grateful Dead provided a roadmap — twenty years in advance — for [...]

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Tags: communities · grateful dead · social networking

LinkedIn Raises $53M and Posts Video on Valuation

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Today, the business social-networking site LinkedIn announced that it raised $53M at just over a $1B valuation. In addition, they posted a YouTube video with Jeffrey Glass from Bain Capital, David Sze from Greylock, David Cowan from Bessemer, and (Mark Logic board member) Mark Kvamme from Sequoia. Per TechCrunch this round brings the total funding [...]

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Tags: social networking