Raavi's clipped stories:
Three microblogging services have come to my attention recently. Here they are, with some observations. Rather than just listing a few new sites (new to me, that is), I've tried to consider how they might be useful in an educational context. (Read More)
Raavi's clipped stories:
When you think of Twitter, you probably think of a microblogging tool that helps you connect with friends across the world. But not every Tweeter uses their account just to chat back and forth with their online friends. Some have come up with truly creative ways to use their account.What follows is a list of the 10 most cre (Read More)
: Do you know something the rest of us don't? ;) In terms of numbers of users, Plurk would be next on the list, with Pownce following that. Neither matches Twitter very closely though. For a very Twitter-like experience, I'd suggest Identica.
Im more thinking about downtimes really, the unpredictable nature. As you said, it grows and grows...
For seomthing that so many people rely on for constant communication would do not harm and would be quite logical to have a common back-up in these down times. This would mean kinda agreeing within your own communities and adding each other sooner rather than later.
So its more a preventative measure, follow people now then you are more likely to be able to switch over and not loose much conversation.
Even it Twitter stalls for a few hours or an afternoon, which it did do last week, even that can cause difficulties. However, if everyone had one common back-up app, moving over would have been pretty painless.
Submitted by Raavi:
Social Media is like Sudoku, hard to understand, just before to play with it. After that a whole new meaning of life is open to your feets.
Step by step, living and learning rules in Social Networking, Social Bookmarking and Microblogging world, you start to solve puzzles in Social Media, just like you doing in Sudoku. (Read More)