Submitted by Robdiana
from Google Reader:
I gotta admit that Kent Newsome has come up with the best single line description of Twitter yet - “it often feels like a mashup of Deepak Chopra and P.T. Barnum"That was how he started out his post earlier today lamenting how Twitter seems to have become the spawning ground of endless “MLM, get rich quick and grow your fo (Read More)
Mashable!
Start counting the number of social media websites you have a profile with, right now. Out of fingers yet? Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube are just the start of it - for people active on social websites, you could have several dozen social media profiles, half of them using a really old picture of you. Heck, some (Read More)
: Tweetcongress.org looks like a good resource. It's only a matter of time before non-profits and activist organizations start using twitter for "action alerts."
: This might be a start. If constituents can get direct access to their representatives and are able to influence them, then grassroots movements may be able to influence the congress. The question is how much of the communication is one way from the representative to the constituents. If all that is happening is the reps using Twitter as an one-way mass communication tool, then we will remain where we are.
digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular
You’ll always notice that of the 5,000 followers that a social media expert has that about 5,000 of them are also other social media “experts”. Like any good Ponzi scheme the lead zombies make a living feeding the aspirations of the worker level drones who parrot their every tweet. It's high time we decima (Read More)
Bwana.org
The folks over at Socialmedian have listened to their users and have improved their user experience by implementing news filters:Users can now filter news by the following services: Twitter, Blogs, Google Reader, Youtube, Flickr, Digg, and FriendFeed. To filter a service, simply click the desired service icon, and it will (Read More)
FriendFeed Blog
We've just added a friend importer for Twitter so you can easily find and subscribe to your Twitter friends who are already on FriendFeed.You may already have won! Your Twitter friends could already be using FriendFeed! Find them today!We're looking forward to extending this capability to more services. As always please let (Read More)
social|median
socialmedian now has an easy friend finder so you can easily find and subscribe to your Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Hotmail friends who are already on socialmedian.You probably have already won! There's a good chance that several of your contacts are already using socialmedian.When you connect socialmedian and Facebo (Read More)
Smashing Magazine
By Jacob GubePHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as (Read More)
louisgray.com
There's no question the lifestreaming space has just exploded over the last year, with services like Plaxo Pulse and FriendFeed leading the way, accompanied by MyBlogLog, SocialThing, Profilactic and others. Practically all services aggregate your social activity across networks and let you display it in one area, with the (Read More)
: If you can get a strong presence on Social Median, FriendFeed and Strands all at once, I'm sure there's some sort of prize. Strands is just getting started, but they've got some great features worth checking out.
: Gmail, Google Docs, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, and now Socialmedian are the most important to me at the moment. Just signed up with Identi.ca, though.
Submitted by Orli:
There are many different sites that target general social networking, some are for business, some are for dating, some are for microblogging, and others for service aggregation. And there will be many more. (Read More)
: Um, yeah, Jason - that's one of the ones which went out on Facebook, yesterday! :-) And - ahem! - since I already knew what my butt looked like, I opted TO NOT click on that particular link! :-)
(Actually, I'm much more interested in following your WONDERFUL Twitter example! KUDOS!)
Submitted by Grasshopper:
Though they're all approaching it in different ways, a bunch of large Internet firms—including ISPs like Charter and AT&T and Web companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, and perhaps even Google—are crawling toward adopting "behavioral targeting" systems. Predictably, privacy advocates are pushing lawmakers to outlaw or significant (Read More)
Mashable!
It’s undeniable at this stage: social networking is a core feature of nearly every new website, an underpinning of the web. Leading the charge: the earliest of early adopters, those who staked their claim in Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed in social media’s embryonic stages. The kind of people who spend 18 ho (Read More)