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Metrics firm ComScore reports that 132 million unique visitors logged onto Facebook in June 2008, up from just 52 million in June 2007. 117 million worldwide users visited MySpace during June 2008. Its Facebook's first definitive traffic victory, from a source advertisers actually pay attention to, over MySpace. Way down on (Read More)
Submitted by Mikehollywood:
The key to successful online communities is finding people who play the role of conversational catalyst within a group, to welcome newcomers, rein in old hands and set the tone of the conversation so that it can become a community. (Read More)
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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.
Submitted by Scbalazs:
Twitter largely reminds me of when people started to register their own names for domains, turning the Internet into a giant customized license plate. It's somewhere between self-expression and mental onanism.I use it to track several news sites but following other "people" often makes me feel weird. Most of the content see (Read More)
: In my opinion, marketing belongs on twitter as much as it used to belong on Usenet. That is, not at all. Twitter is public space, but not in the same way that myspace.com or facebook are. Twitter is more like my living room than either of those two environments. I see Twitter as like a large house party, and I certainly wouldn't invite a marketer to a house party (buzz kill!)
: when I first started thats what I thought it would be like. In Truth all dayand all night, bloggers try to get you to their blog to read a story, or an invite to beta test a new service. It's all marketing, but, because I love tech, I don't mind. i want to check some of these new sites or articles out.I understand where your coming from though. If it only occurred every once in a while then it would be distributive, and annoying to the community. Unfortuatly, it happens all the time.Some of twitter's most vocal advocates are the biggest abusers of this system. Therefore it is what it is. BTW, I also wouldn't invite a stranger to my house party!