Erik van Bekkum’s blogged an article (last Tuesday) in the Detroit News about social network tracking software, with great quotes from Valdis Krebs. This article was also published in USA Today, which also published an article on Friendster. Valdis makes the very interesting point that the intense interest in the technology of mapping relationships is not being matched with the appropriate level of attention to the sociology of working with people. There is a disaster looming, when somewhere, somehow, data from social networking software is misused.

If you haven’t seen, social software is also getting attention from the Wall Street Journal in an article on Monday, 4th August, “Six Degrees of Exploitation.”

I’ll be getting even deeper into social network tracking software in the coming weeks as I participate in a beta test of Zero Degrees. This is really getting interesting.