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The (very) old Quechup story - learn from the past.

Several bloggers here in Belgium have been covering Quechup, a so called online social networking site with a bit of a nasty habit; it sends invites to all your email contacts without asking.

Today ZDNet.be, (in Dutch) the influential IT publisher, is also covering the story and mentions Bert and Clo as bloggers who have been scammed and who blog about this issue. In fact it is Bert's post that will show up as top 3 when you do a search on Google for Quechup.

I also received an invite to joint this network but didn't give it a second look simply because I am already in so many networks that I can't keep up. Apart from that, the whole thing had a "dodgy" feel to it...

Xing and LinkedIn are enough for me and apart from some very specialist PR networks I am not planning to join any other sites or communities for the moment.

Xing has proved to be a very strong business development tool and it amazes me every time that online contacts become offline colleagues, business partners or clients. Introductions are so much smoother and I feel I can get "down to business" much quicker. (Try a free Premium membership here).

Anyway, stay clear from Quechup and if you really like the story behind it all, check out their attempt to blog dating back to June 03, 2005 !

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Posted on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 09:27 by Registered CommenterPhilippe Borremans in , , | Comments2 Comments

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I actually received the 'spam' email from Clo you are refering to. I checked it out (because Clo doesn't often send me spam) and even signed up (I haven't heard about anyone receiving the invite) but then didn't find anything worth pursuing on the network. Having said that, I am currently busy playing with Facebook (www.facebook.com) and I must admit this is really something else. I'm not sure why but I have never seen something spreading at this speed. I am reconnecting to old friends and the features (the apps) are really fun and useful. My feeling is that it will gradully replace the likes of Xing (too boring) and perhaps linkedin (maybe simply by 'mashing-up).

Bye from Bombay (and check me up on facebook).

Phil
August 10, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterPhil
The "attempt to blog" is gone now. If the cached version is accurate, that is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen on the web.
August 17, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterhierophantus

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