tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16862808.post5911174558402559970..comments2023-10-21T07:53:21.396-07:00Comments on ThreeDimensionalPeople: Spamming the spammersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17310193324855338868noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16862808.post-5535513917811859062008-03-02T13:24:00.000-08:002008-03-02T13:24:00.000-08:00Great insight, I believe your answer lies in the F...Great insight, I believe your answer lies in the FOaF and/or XFN protocol: http://gmpg.org/xfn/and/foaf<BR/><BR/>When MySpace started letting the users add companies and products as friends it was too immature as the sole reason of doing this was just to show people what brands and products you purchased.<BR/><BR/>FaceBook recently started letting you become a fan of products, brands, anything really, but again companies didn't take this to their full advantage and even worse people started to freak out when the products they were consuming were being blasted in their news feed for all their friends to see.<BR/><BR/>What we need is to let brands become our friends in exchange for information such as our friends list and attention data for highly targeted advertising.<BR/><BR/>This example of how Dopplr can/should work with an airline comes to mind: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120269162692857749.html<BR/><BR/>It isn't about "spamming the spammers," that is the wrong philosophy.<BR/><BR/>Why do networks like Twitter and Jaiku have no trolls? It isn't because we blacklist the trolls, on the contrary it is because we only white list the people we want to be in contact with.<BR/><BR/>Now I don't know if there will ever be a day where a company or friend has to ask your permission first before mailing some thing to you, but in the digital age ... we should have responsibility over how we spend out time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com