Comments on: Wink, a place to flirt — and prowl http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:39:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Wink: Now a Better Social Marketing Tool http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/comment-page-1/#comment-6698 Wink: Now a Better Social Marketing Tool Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:11:22 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/#comment-6698 [...] Wink has the potential to become a dating (er… stalking), job search and social network marketing mecca now with their targeted crawl. [...] [...] Wink has the potential to become a dating (er… stalking), job search and social network marketing mecca now with their targeted crawl. [...]

]]> By: Brian Balfour http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/comment-page-1/#comment-6640 Brian Balfour Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:21:52 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/#comment-6640 Wink also has a couple major flaws with their technology that greatly reduces the usefulness of the people search. Mainly, they can't tell if two different profiles are of the same person (repeated results), and they also can't differentiate between people, bands, companies, tv shows, etc. More on that here: http://www.socialdegree.com/2006/11/10/winkcom-social-network-people-search/ Wink also has a couple major flaws with their technology that greatly reduces the usefulness of the people search. Mainly, they can’t tell if two different profiles are of the same person (repeated results), and they also can’t differentiate between people, bands, companies, tv shows, etc. More on that here:

http://www.socialdegree.com/2006/11/10/winkcom-social-network-people-search/

]]> By: Konstantin Guericke http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/comment-page-1/#comment-6627 Konstantin Guericke Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:51:41 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/#comment-6627 Here is the direct link to either remove your public profile (which is very limited to begin with) or to add more information from your LinkedIn profile to your public profile via simple check boxes: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?editwp= BTW, it seems that http://www.linkedin.com/in/matt is still available, so you better get it before another Matt gets it for his Web profile :-) Here is the direct link to either remove your public profile (which is very limited to begin with) or to add more information from your LinkedIn profile to your public profile via simple check boxes:
http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?editwp=

BTW, it seems that http://www.linkedin.com/in/matt is still available, so you better get it before another Matt gets it for his Web profile :-)

]]> By: Matt Marshall http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/comment-page-1/#comment-6621 Matt Marshall Sat, 11 Nov 2006 03:11:20 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/#comment-6621 Thanks Matthew, have updated piece with the link. Thanks Matthew, have updated piece with the link.

]]> By: Matthew Stotts http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/comment-page-1/#comment-6616 Matthew Stotts Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:53:41 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2006/11/10/wink-a-place-to-flirt-and-prowl/#comment-6616 Wink doesn't index any profiles that people have set to private. Of course, there are legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want to be found or searchable, but all social networks allow you to control that. <a href="http://wink.com/Social_Network_Privacy--bricktop--4fa940edc0dc21--collections" rel="nofollow"> Here are some privacy resources.</a> Wink doesn’t index any profiles that people have set to private. Of course, there are legitimate reasons why you wouldn’t want to be found or searchable, but all social networks allow you to control that.
Here are some privacy resources.

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