Broadcast #10 of T&A's Chicken Lips is in the can.  We are DJs at the local community radio station here in Salida, Colorado: KHEN-LP 106.9 FM (website).  You can catch our show, T&A's Chicken Lips, on Wednesdays at 7 am - 9 am Mountain Time here in Salida.  KHEN also stream's it's signal on the World Wide Web.   Our show include a weekly audio "editorial" on technology called "Tech Kernels from the Chicken Lips." The "column" appears in text form below and is pretty close to what I read on the air.

Attached is a low quality (48kbps) copy of the show.  Where is the audio? Check enclosure or "Attachment(s)" links at the bottom of this entry for the audio!

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You'll notice a river/water theme running through our play list.  This is due to FIBArk, Salida's biggest and most awesome festival starting up today.  Here our play list:

Tech Kernels from the Chicken Lips

June 11, 2008
Social Network Services

From Wikipedia, a social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.

There are a couple of nifty social networking sites worth checking out. Possibly the most useful, no-frills site is LinkedIn.com, whose primary purpose is to allow you to network with people you have worked with in the past. You can search linked-in for job listings, and if possible, use your network to get your "foot in the door". Like they say, it isn't what you know, but who you know, and linked in makes it easy keep track of all of your business contacts.

MySpace.com doesn't offer too much for businesses, unless you are a musician. If you enjoy checking out new music like we do, you've probably heard many musicians work on their myspace page. Users of MySpace can also create social networks, create blogs and have access to all kinds of plugins they can add to their myspace page. Unfortunately, most myspace pages look like they were designed by some two year old, and it has become a target for spammers.

Enter Facebook. I like Facebook because of it's clean modular design. You can enter information about your high school, college, and place of work, and Facebook will let you know if any of your classmates or work cohorts have Facebook profiles. You can also upload your address book and let Facebook go to work finding all of your contacts' Facebook profiles. FaceBook apparently has a fairly strong developer base too, so you can develop apps that plug into the FaceBook information architecture. These apps appear on your profile page as nifty modules. Some of the modules can import data from your other sites, such as your blog's RSS feed. All of my blog posts magically appear on my facebook profile. If you are logged in, and visit the front page of facebook, you get a nice home page where you can see what all your friends have been doing on FaceBook (and off of facebook too... assuming they have imported data from other sources).

Facebook also provides privacy controls, so you have some kind of control over who and what has access to the information you've given Facebook. The only major drawback to facebook is that you can't view another's profile until you have actually joined facebook.

There have been discussions on the internet over who actually owns the data you enter into services like facebook. Let's just say, if you read over their user agreement, it ain't you. So while Facebook is happy to pull information about you from other sources for display on your profile page, Facebook isn't so happy to allow other services, like Google's Friend Connect service, to have access to your information. This isn't too surprising because the only real value FaceBook has is the information you've entered into it.

Be sure to check out the KHEN Facebook page.

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