Will Facebook announce email on Monday #titan

I've got mixed emotions on this.

At first, I used email to track my friends on Facebook... then I turned them off to use Facebook directly.

When I got it tuned to not get 4700 Farmville notes, I started noticing that business friends actually paid attention to message sent in Facebook.

So if I had a @Facebook.com address, would I have to reprint my business cards?

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This coming Monday, November 15, will see Facebook holding a new press gathering, and the rumors say its focus will be Project Titan, an email service to rival the likes of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google.

The new service would enable Facebook's 500+ million users to get an @facebook.com email address, and have a more integrated social/email experience. Just bring together emails from other accounts, add Facebook friends, updates, deals, and you've got yourself the next thing to keep people on Facebook even more than before. There's great potential to such a solution so it will be interesting to see how Facebook plays its cards. Read more at www.tcmagazine.com

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Does the Value of a Network Connection Go Down With Time

I just saw another piece quoting Julien Smith's rant about the declining value of followers as a network grows.

This is just plain silly. 100 people in a network makes for a lot ton of connections. 200 people in that same network gets a lot more potential connections. Even if you never add one extra connection, a network that has grown has MORE value per connection, not less.

The number doesn't matter near as much as the RELATIONSHIP. If I have ONE PERSON on a network and he's my next big customer, a though leader with thousands of readers, or a person with a friend that can connect me to another network of people I'd like to hear from.. ONE is FANTASTIC.

Develop relationships. Not numbers.

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Smith’s post helped explain to me the concept of inflation in a social media following. If you start out on a social network early on and that network grows over time, you can only keep up with that growth for so long because, at some point, the service will experience faster and bigger growth than you. The result is that you end up with less “access” and have to make more effort to be able to reach more people. As Smith puts it, “100 friends yesterday has the same value as 200 today.” This feels to me like a never-ending vicious circle.

Listen. What is being said about you is as important, if not more than, what you are saying about you. Read more at webworkerdaily.com

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Paying Less Attention to @ChrisBrogan. I can't switch to @jimkural

I love reading anything from Chris. Really enjoy hanging out when we can.

Sometimes I go days without seeing a twee from him (though other days I read several and the links and blog posts)

Is this bad?

Chris points out that we can't see everything and spend time with everyone.

I agree. If I didn't see Chris for a year, he'd still be my friend. With social media, I hear from him most days.

I had to mention Jim Kukral. After all, his new book is called ATTENTION (out tomorrow, buy a copy) Sheez, I hardly ever talk to Jim now. What will happen when HE gets more connections?

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If I spent 6 minutes a day with 100 Twitter friends, that’s 10 hours.

Only 100. If I gave ONLY 100 people some of my time, that’s 10 hours right there. No email. No work. No writing. No family life. 10 hours gone just to some tweets to individuals.

Email: I get just under 600 a day. Of those, I process about 120 myself. If I give each of those just 1 minute (and email takes much longer than tweets), that’s another 2 hours.

I’m up to 12 hours just to service a few hundred friends and colleagues.

We are setting ourselves up to be disappointments to many. Or that’s the feeling I’m getting way down deep in my gut and my bones. I feel it more and more every day. I feel people growing weary of the “Chris doesn’t have time” side of the Internet.

But this is unnatural. We didn’t used to have hundreds of thousands of contacts. Dunbar. 150. Right? Read more at inoveryourhead.net

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