Since 5/2005 I am member of xing.com (www.xing.com) formerly known as openbc. The first German business community. Many people I know from my job I am connected over Xing today. An advantage of being member of such a B2B community is the fact that nearly every member keep the profile actual. I am still using this portal for find people who can offer me what I need for the job like products and informations. Until a couple month xing was my most important platform. This changed with being member in other social web 2.0 communities. Today most of my profiles in the net are merged over open API applications (API:application programming interface). xing doesn’t offer an open API. So my xing profile is not merged with my other profiles. I believe if xing will not offer such an API in a short time they will loose more and more share of the market.
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Markus Eberius is a consultant with experiences in the spheres of IT and online communication for years.
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In 1999 Shawn Fanning developed the napster software. The first software to share files over a P2P network. Napster was directly followed by winmx. This software had the function of instant messaging. So users with the same interests met on a server and had the possibilities for a direct communication. Read the rest of this entry
I remember it was 1999 as I tried friendscout24. It was one of the first dating portals in Germany. As I came to friendscout there were maybe 100 thousand members on the platform. After 2 weeks you nearly knew the most of the people out of your own area. Today they have more than 10 Million members. The spectrum of possibilities to communicate was limited. There was a internal messaging system but not more and you could upload one picture. Read the rest of this entry
