Comments on: facebook is now an open network http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/ the blog about the book Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:48:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Karel http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-246 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:53:30 +0000 http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-246 final tally: 16 joined out of 118 invited. mostly web executives and other communication technology heavy users. final tally: 16 joined out of 118 invited. mostly web executives and other communication technology heavy users.

]]> by: Karel http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-217 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:38:47 +0000 http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-217 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/26/facebook-just-launched-open-registrations/trackback/\" rel="nofollow">Techcrunch</a> was early on this, of course. Techcrunch was early on this, of course.

]]> by: Karel http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-216 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:30:06 +0000 http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-216 7 of my 90 friends joined in the first 12 hours, all highly tech savvy and industry connected. most are ignoring it, even though "reply to" is set to me. My facebook name starts with double byte characters, so the "From" field was garbled to be all question marks. one wrote "I'm surprised my spam filter didn't pull this. Sheesh." he didn't join. 7 of my 90 friends joined in the first 12 hours, all highly tech savvy and industry connected. most are ignoring it, even though “reply to” is set to me. My facebook name starts with double byte characters, so the “From” field was garbled to be all question marks.

one wrote “I’m surprised my spam filter didn’t pull this. Sheesh.” he didn’t join.

]]> by: Karel http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-205 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:04:22 +0000 http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2006/09/26/facebook-is-now-an-open-network/#comment-205 Actually, I sent to 90 people. My first submit to the site failed to an application php error, so perhaps the feature is busy. But this means that my customized message was not delivered. So it probably felt like true spam. Facebook noticed that one of my invitees was already on the site, with "The following people are already registered on Facebook. We have sent them friend requests for you." Actually, I sent to 90 people. My first submit to the site failed to an application php error, so perhaps the feature is busy. But this means that my customized message was not delivered. So it probably felt like true spam.

Facebook noticed that one of my invitees was already on the site, with “The following people are already registered on Facebook. We have sent them friend requests for you.”

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