ReadWriteWeb
"Imagine what your cell phone could know [about you]," pondered Sandro Hawke (Semantic Web Developer, W3C), at the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA this week."It hears everything that's going on around you; it knows where you are, it knows the motion of your body, it sees what's in front of it, it knows your c (Read More)
: If Facebook Connect takes hold, there will be an all out battle between Facebook, Microsoft, and Google as to who owns the profile across thousands if not millions of sites.
Mashable!
How many online profiles do you think you have right now? I know, too many to even count! Such is the case with anyone that uses Web 2.0 sites these days. Whether you have boatloads of profiles or just a few, you need a way to manage your profile information. Here are some tools that you can use to share your profiles onlin (Read More)
Jason Kintzler's Posts - PitchEngine
PR pros continue to flock to PitchEngine to build digital press releases and share them with their media contacts via email, social networking sites, blogs and micro blogs. As those user-generated, social media releases continue to compile, we're now opening up our PitchFeed functionality for journalists and bloggers.What i (Read More)
TechCrunch
Seattle has has a heck of a tech scene, but isn’t so big that the community breaks down into cliques and haters as Silicon Valley often does in the boom times. Maybe that’s why I spend so much time up here.Like other tech hubs, successful Seattle entrepreneurs tend to become angel investors and help the next cro (Read More)
Inside PR
Comments? Send us an email at insideprcomments@gmail.com, call us on the comment line on 206-337-0727, visit the Inside PR Blubrry site, or leave us a comment on the Inside PR show blog.This week on Inside PR Terry Fallis, David Jones, and Julie Rusciolelli define the broad scope of Public Relations and discuss the tactic (Read More)
Submitted by Pitchengine:
Pitchengine is one site/service that is offering the opportunity to add, images, video, and release via social media networks quickly and seamlessly. And what’s better, it’s free! The site is easy to use and offers the best vehicle I’ve found to distribute to social networks. (Read More)
Submitted by Ragtag:
In a move to be the Facebook or MySpace of the enterprise social software market, IBM unveils the IBM Social Software Center, which will enable IBM customers, business partners and other parties to work with IBM social computing engineers on new collaboration products. (Read More)
Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Writers write, and we like to think we do it well. But sometimes what we were taught in writing classes and have learned from reading will mean death in online media. This is because the medium is so vastly different and people have different needs from the new media than they did from the old. Here are some tricks and tips (Read More)
Submitted by Vincent Wright:
Overrated: Social networking can't replace a face to faceJulie TilsnerSep 15th 2008 at 3:00PMOf the more than 150 "friends" I have on Facebook, I only talk on the phone to half a dozen. I break bread regularly with exactly one of them.Although "social networking" is a hot buzzword right now, critics claim, rightly I think, (Read More)
: Social networking is just another way to communicate with people. You can meet someone face to face in a bar, or at a party, and they can put on their best side too. I've made many friends online, and I'm not from 'The Facebook Generation' by any means - I'm almost 50. Then again, I don't think like I'm 50, and I try not to act like it most of the time either.
I'm not an enthusiastic user of MySpace, but for largely technical reasons - MySpace is slow, and the interface sucks; and I'm not into throwing sheep or playing slot machines in Facebook either, but I do enjoy swapping stories, finding old friends and ex-colleages, and generally interacting with people.
I've got online friends that go way back - back to Fidonet days even - we've been friends online for almost 20 years now, and still keep in touch. One day, we might even meet up, if we're passing through each others area.
What's so different about social networking on a computer to doing the same thing as penpals or via tape exchange?
Perhaps I'm a little biased about the value of online social networking though (which isn't really a new phenomenon, it's been around as long as we've had connected computers). I met my wife online ten years ago.
: Eyebee, Congratulations on nearing 50! I used to be 50 - and found it to have been one of my FAVORITES! :-)
It's also great seeing someone reference Fidonet, these days!
Incidentally, last month I met with one of my closest friends in my entire life. There's a resonance in our friendship that makes him seem closer than my own, real-life brothers. I've known him online for 10 years. Last month was the first time we met in person for lunch. It was both odd - AND - absolutely as normal as could possibly be. Thus, the in-person meeting was almost an incidental thing. Made absolutely no difference that we'd met in person - other than the fact, of course, he paid for lunch! :-) (It was a great lunch at a little Greek restaurant in Princeton, NJ.)
The bottomline for me, is this: I agree with the essence of your point. It really doesn't make any difference where or how we meet people - as long as we're meeting them on the human level...
: I agree with all three of you. All relationships are equally important regardless of how they are established. If you make just one true friend, in any endeavor, it makes the whole thing worthwhile. I have always said that the warmth in my life comes from my friends and family. I have been fortunate to have been able to forge close bonds with so many and to truly be able to call them friends! Sometimes we become disconnected due to relocation, or relationships, you name it. As long as we occasionally stay in touch is all that matters. It makes no difference how this is done. I only joined Facebook a month ago, and I've been able to reconnect with many of my oldest and dearest friends. Some go as far back as elementary school. Most of my friends just signed up with Facebook too. It's great and I'm so glad I did it. I had the same phone number for over 20 years but, I lost it due to a screw up with Nextel a few years back, after switching from their service. Around the same time, I lost everyone’s contact info on my computer because; I was an idiot and didn’t back up my hard drive. Of course it crashed. I was always extremely resistant to online social networking. I used to say, that when we were young we were taught that it wasn't wise to talk to strangers. If this was how we conducted ourselves in our real life, then why should we conduct ourselves any differently online? It seemed logical but, I was wrong, so very wrong. My ignorance combined with a bit of stubbornness left me on the sidelines for years. I actually followed twitter, as a business/potential investment/curiosity, for a year and a half before finally joining. I joined Friendfeed first, just to test the waters. I'm rambling so, the bottom line is, all relationships are valuable! Even bad relationships are valuable, provided that you grow and learn from them. By the way, I haven’t even read the article yet, but I just wanted to add this to Vincent, and Eyebee’s comments.
TechCrunch
A controversy is brewing over a popular Facebook application called PackRat, where users collect sets of illustrated cards for points and levels. The company behind the application, Alamofire, says that users generate up to 500 daily page views per day on the application trying to hunt down the right card to complete a coll (Read More)
: Understanding the technical difference between a "social utility" and a "social networking" site is far from rocket science. That said, aren't non-technical users - the vast majority of internet users - confused enough?
: No. I see facebook is a social networking and I can say it's an excellent social networking because, you can meet from there all of the power people from around the world. Some people teach everything for free and some others learn for free. So there are the good system but I don't know if the system is balanced! Only, I see behind facebook's application, there are a big corrupt because some applications don't get correctly "you see that to the different application's games"! I hate that because I want just to play different game not playing for being star with, lol!!! Sure, some people use and exploit the informations of the others and buy them. Some others add to exists applications your informations and tell that it's the application from facebook and sure they will sell with a new system the application in saying for example Mozart had some others articles never edited so many people interested on it! I go there especially for teaching everything as I can and learning too if I could AND rather to support some differents causes. So, about informations taking for others, no my problem! Except if anyone use my pictures, I'm FURIOUS!!!! I would want earning money with the correct way! Working-Money not Playing-Money!
Submitted by Raavi:
Social media has added many new marketing channels to our toolbox: blogs, forums, user-generated videos, social networking sites and so on. But none of them is as odd as Twitter. (Read More)
Submitted by Philipcalvert:
Europe's answer to LinkedIn has 500,000 paying members; who else can show a 8% premium member base?
XING AG of Germany, widely billed as Europe's answer to LinkedIn of the US, has announced it has added 140,000 paying members to its base of over 6 million business networking members in the eight months of this year so far. (Read More)
John Cook's Venture Blog
The 7.9 magnitude earthquake that has claimed more than 13,000 lives near Chengdu, China rattled the offices of one Seattle startup. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Seattle based wiki startup Wetpaint has always been ahead of the pack in terms of design and usability. Now, a couple of years after launch, they’re starting to see real usage traction as well.The product isn’t just about wikis - they also have social features (profiles, friends, etc.), and added things like for (Read More)