{"id":415,"date":"2003-08-07T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2003-08-07T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2003-08-07T14:37:25","slug":"who-knows-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Who knows who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) covers <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/0,,SB105995953978589700-search,00.html?collection=wsjie%2F30day&#038;vql_string=shirky%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29\">contact mining tools<\/a>, from companies including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visiblepath.com\">Visible Path<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesoftware.com\">Spoke Software<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerodegrees.com\">Zero Degrees<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal is to identify people within the company who have potentially useful contacts elsewhere and could make a personal introduction, say, linking a salesperson with a potential customer, an attorney with a prospective client or a fund-raiser with likely donors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Success depends on effective use of permission and integration into the existing social network. For example, when a salesperson using Visible Path asks the system for an introduction to a person at Microsoft, she doesn&#8217;t find the name of the contact inside the company, or the contact at Microsoft, until after the person who has the contact has given consent.<br \/>\nThese tools complement explicit networking tools, like Linked In, Friendster and Ryze, where participants explicitly declare their business and personal relationships.<br \/>\nThese approaches represent two ends of a continuum<br \/>\n* contact mining tools infer relationships from email and address book contacts<br \/>\n* social network tools explicitly represent relationships<br \/>\nA third complementary approach is emerging, based on hyperlinked public and semipublic media such as wikis and weblogs.  Tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\">Technorati<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedster.com\">Feedster<\/a> implicitly identify relationships by following the trail of hyperlinks.<br \/>\nOn the one hand, a link relationship is weaker &#8212; hyperlinks are one-way, and may indicate a tangential association rather than a direct relationship. On the other hand, the content is public. So you can read the discussion over time, and decide for yourself whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.http:\/\/www.intertwingly.net\/blog\/\">Sam Ruby<\/a> knows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diveintomark.org\">Mark Pilgrim<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) covers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-6H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}