Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
A humorous and informative podcast on early use of socialmedian by The Social Geeks.
Corvida and I dig deep into Social Median, the beta site for collecting and sharing social media news. It offers groups to join and people to follow. Listen in to hear our ratings and review. (Read More)
Submitted by Charlesheflin:
Great ... so you have several profiles set up with several social network platforms like Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, BrightKite, etc.Now you need a way to manage all of the conversations taking place in each of your communities. Typically you visit each network and answer your replies or inbox messages so your community doesn't (Read More)
louisgray.com
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Identi.ca/FriendFeed)Identi.ca, the open source and Federated microblogging platform, could very well put Twitter out of business as other businesses begin realizing how they can adopt it. I think the answer could very well be in the "group Twitter" concept that everyone keeps talking about (Read More)
: Identi.ca, the open source and Federated microblogging platform, could very well put Twitter out of business as other businesses begin realizing how they can adopt it. I think the answer could very well be in the "group Twitter" concept that everyone keeps talking about and the fact that Laconi.ca, the code that powers Identi.ca, makes this very easy for anyone to do.
: Great idea: Build your own protocol for twitter like messaging. But then expect everyone to use it? With so much social media out there is this a reasonable expectation? I think not
ReadWriteWeb
"Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that's all I care to share about myself - will you be my friend?" Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications great each other. It's not very useful or inspiring. Communication is a lot more useful when you have a good idea who (Read More)
: I really like social|median so far. I'd participate a whole lot more, if I didn't have to earn some money during the day as well!
I've got this cute little avatar that a friend made me in his spare time a few years ago, and I tend to use that across the networks. It's a reasonable likeness. I've no issue with folks knowing basic stuff about me anyway.
Regular Geek
Image via WikipediaEvery day, you will see someone complaining about the noise on FriendFeed. Typically, the user will talk about how they are going to trim the subscriptions. Contrary to what some people say, this is probably a good idea, not only on FriendFeed but everywhere there are social subscriptions. If you begin to (Read More)
Submitted by Manogr:
Blogging as everyone's preferred method of communication may be over. What's taking its place? Lifestreaming. And don't be fooled into thinking that we're talking just about FriendFeed here - lifestreaming as a format for communication extends beyond just that one social site to encompass an entirely new way to establish yo (Read More)
Submitted by Infodiva:
On July 25, murderous terrorists struck the peaceful, cosmopolitan tech hub of Bangalore. The terrorists aim was to cause fear and inflict economic damage to the increasingly prosperous Indian society. The tech sector in India’s Silicon Valley paused, took stock of the situation and bravely soldiered on. Even on the day (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
When I first reviewed Plurk for ReadWriteWeb, I had only been using this new lifestreaming service for a little while. After using it for much longer, I've realized that there is really just one major difference between Twitter and Plurk - but it's that one difference that makes Plurk so much better.This is a guest post by (Read More)
: Is Plurk still alive? I found most people have headed back to Twitter..I just seem to struggle with the way the conversations are 'hidden' unless you prompt them to open...
: Plurk's UI advantage won't save it when pitted against Twitter's community advantage. At least for me, everyone in my geographical area is on Twitter and not Plurk. So, it's a no-brainer.
louisgray.com
As the world of online "friends" is getting increasingly blurred, and many of us are joining social network after social network, expanding our realm of friends to mean much more than just those we know in real life, artificial rules of etiquette are being created for when you follow someone or add them as a friend, and whe (Read More)
: Unfortunately the benchmarks for 'rules' are all real life based.. Agree that each community will make its own rules as they go along, and break them too :)
Submitted by Rafe:
I'm testing out socialmedian by posting this story. I'm also hoping that socialmedian does not fall into the category of products I discuss in this post. (Read More)
Of course, we too hope that socialmedian does not fall into the category of products you discussed.
Here are a few reasons we think not.
1. We have built socialmedian over the course of 2008 with the direct help and input of thousands of people from around the world who have participated in our alpha. It's not a product looking for an audience rather an audience-built product.
2. We have chosen not to demo at Demo (asked but we turned down because there is no point in us paying $18K to demo socialmedian at this point), nor at TC50 (discussed with Mike but we both agree that socialmedian with 4300 alpha users is further along than stealth startup). We are working with TC on a different sort of presence by socialmedian at TC50. Stay tuned.
3. We're solving a real problem here at socialmedian: The noise factor. All these web 2.0 apps have turned the volume way up. We're helping people filter down the noise to personal interests. Which we think may be a web 3.0 beginning.
: Heh - I love Rafe. He is our generation's John C. Dvorak. Rafe, what age did Dvorak transition from being a krumudgin to being a cranky old man? "Get off my Web 2.0 you darn kids!!!"
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
Social Media is everywhere these days. In the past 6 months, I must have signed up to dozens of social media sites, used them once or twice and then abondoned then to the box of neglected toys. The onslaught started slowly. We made friendster/MySpace/Facebook profiles, some of us started personal blogs, we got digg, del.ici (Read More)
: I would venture to say that what is noise to one may in fact be signal to another: personally, I get tired of slogging through all the tech feeds to find the 5% that are useful for work and perhaps 5% that interest me personally. But then again, that's what I've got Yahoo pipes for: to help me filter the noise before it ever gets to me. Don't see why one couldn't go the same route to filter, say, an unwanted Twitter follower.
: @nigelwalsh @isthisstupid Merge them and filter them when you do! I like the notion of a signal to noise ratio, and I also remember not to pigeon hole. Some fool might be mostly noisy (mostly cloudy?), but as the good Bard has helped us to know: often the fool says the most profound thing.
It's possible that the one signal from a noisy "friend" might surpass the many signals from a guru.