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Has anyone written a proposal for their company to work virtually?

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there's no standard. there are technical work-arounds but i dont think any large social site would want to invest heavily into them unless they have a big enough market share to push it into a de-facto standard.

limbo

that idea possibly fails in the face of people finding you by your email address (as is the case in most YASNs at the moment). Anybody who has multiple email addresses for you can find multiple accounts. Also, people who go around through various people's connections might find your other profiles and start wondering what gives. This becomes easier when your circles start to cross over (one of your co-workers is also a fire spinning poly dj freak).



There was an idea in tribe a while back, brought up (i think) by Brian Lawler to create social rings that are invisible to each other. One profile can be a part of multiple rings but you get to designate information you post as belonging to one ring or another. People outside your freak ring wont see the leather-daddy pics you posted from last weekend and wont even know that you belong to any of those poly-freakery tribes. More here: briatribe.tribe.net/thread/3...73f2f88a8



I vaguely remember hearing that facebook might implement something along those lines (althogh probably not as strong) and you can something a very basic version of that in pownce with organizing your friends into groups and only posting to certain groups.

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writer John Scalzi on "gaming" social networks:



Cory [Doctorow] points out that one of the problems with Facebook, MySpace, et al., is that all of a person social spheres get dumped into one bin, and suddenly your conservative boss, who you’ve friended to be polite, knows that you hang out with a bunch of polyamorous hippies when you’re off the clock. Aside from my personal inclination to tell any potential boss with hangups about my personal life to just deal with it, dude, there’s no reason one can’t manage one’s online social life as one does one’s offline life, with multiple faces for different people. Use one MySpace account for all your polyfreak pals, another for family and non-polyfreak pals, and another one for your boss and coworkers and random people in the seventh grade what used to beat you up. Think of the latter as the social network equivalent of a spam trap. Don’t tell the people in your social spam trap that, obviously.

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I'd like to hear about updates as well - this is TRULY something that needs to be going beta by now! heh!

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Alabaster college prep: Harlem?

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