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socialmedian feature: connecting your content into socialmedian
Submitted by Jasongoldberg
Aug 19, 2008
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Aug 19, 2008
On connecting twitter, our idea is to enable users to either (a) have all of their tweets shared with their socialmedian page, (b) have only tweets that match certain keywords (e.g. I could say only tweets that contain the word "news"), or (c) any tweet to #socialmedian. What think you?
Aug 19, 2008
It sounds fun but I'm having trouble imagining myself being blown away by a flood of keyword-flagged tweets. Hopefully it will be cooler in practice than in my head.
Aug 19, 2008
Hey Daniel. The idea is that the only tweets that should probably make it to socialmedian are ones that are about news. So, we need to give people the ability to have only a subset of their tweets make it to socialmedian vs. all. Like when you tweet about being at the obama rally it gets to socialmedian and shared with the campaign 2008 news network, but when you tweet about your mom's birthday it doesn't get automatically shared with socialmedian. make some sense ?
Aug 19, 2008
Dig it! With 140 chars #socialmedian is a lot of sacrificed chars, maybe a shorter tag code would be in order e.g. "OMG AN ELEPHANT JUST SAT ON MY CAR!!!!! #S|M".
Aug 20, 2008
Hi Jason,
This would be a great feature - I'll start using social median much more if this were available. In addition to the above, I'd like to see: 1. Connection with StumbleUpon 2. Two-way connections. i.e. if I bookmark something on delicious, and I haven't yet clipped it on socialmedian, then it should do that automatically. 3. Multiple blogs / RSS feeds (i.e. not just one). 
Aug 20, 2008
I agree with Ngkabra:
- StumbleUpon is smth I would definitely add - about the 2-way-connections: isn't this what Jason wants to do? I bookmark all my pages through delicious, so thought those would appear automatically as clips here at S|M , right? other services, maybe Reddit (although don't think many use this)? OFF-TOPIC: - smth that should be changed is the e-mail updates => I choose to receive them "with my morning coffee", but I live in Belgium (different timezone) so I only receive them in the late afternoon! So adding a timezone in settings should do the trick, and link the email updates with this! 
Aug 20, 2008
I agree in principle that aggregating the NEWS part of my clips, snips, delicious's, diggs, stumbles and assigning them to news feeds i contribute to would make this easier for me to update remotely. At the moment Social Media is little more than an email delivered where i have chosen the interest areas - something Yahoo and Hotmail have offered since dawn of portals. The main differentiation for me is the subject choice is dynamic rather than a tick box for "technology".
adding a tool to pull selected items from my various lifestreams would make both the news and my use of it more frequent. my concern is that the filters/assignment of NEWS to include will need to be pretty clever to avoid "aunt mabel gets a new car" posting across from my Family section on facebook for example. I currently use multiple profiles on social media to allow myself a divide between public and private and link them together where appropriate. a system that could allow me to select WHAT goes where not just ALL all of the time would have some benefit. But at the moment RSS and FriendFeed and other mechanisms are simply duplicated by Social Median which reduces my reliance on it - i rarely get an Exclusive through SM and as its by email most of the news i have picked up on other feeds/daily browsing which limits its use for me at the moment
Aug 20, 2008
Clarification about my two-way connection stuff: what I really meant to say (as opposed to what I actually wrote) is that the connection should go the other way also. If I clip on s|m, there should be an option to have that automatically post to delicious and twitter (thanks for pointing out my mistake @Adgenius)
Aug 20, 2008
yep @Ngkabra and @ Jason - a hub is what we are describing, update once send to many. Facilitate the aggregation and the volume of interest increases with ease of use. if it costs me less/nothing more than a click on a tool bar or a mouse gesture and pick for:socialmedia|technews from the cloud of tag options like delicious then you get a good representation of what i find useful and interesting on the internet each day. and with approximately 18 hours a day online thats a lot of human vetted and tagged information >= any script you care to write. if i have to log into a portal to do the same you will get my weekly summary if i can be bothered = possibly higher quality threshold but significant loss of immediacy and volume of crowdwisdom.
Aug 20, 2008
Agree.
We also need to implement a better reply @ system on socialmedian
Aug 20, 2008
a thing that annoys me a bit is that you get to see the same post again and again on "My Networks". Is there a way to "recognize" which posts have already been clipped before and this way won't show again? This way it's easier to go through all new posts and would save tremendous time and avoid irritation..
Aug 24, 2008
We'll be working on getting this done this week, with filters as discussed. stay tuned...
Aug 24, 2008
When I click the bookmarklet to submit a news page, bookmarklet informs me that it is already submitted after I fill in the description. Can't the bookmarklet inform me as soon as I click it by searching the current url in the database? Then give me the option to either cancel it or add my own comment to it? Thanks.
Aug 24, 2008
What about the API? I like the convenience and simplicity of a bookmarklet very much but wouldn't mind a firefox extension, netvibes module, vista gadget or even IM interface to submit the news or share the clips.
A public bug/feature management would also help immensely so that I can search and find out if a suggestion has already been made(and add my voice to it) or if a bug has already been submitted. Developers can use their internal bug/feature tracking system but a public one for the users will make a huge difference. 
Aug 24, 2008
I'm really excited about what's under the hood at socialmedian. What kind of smarts are coded into the backend?
Aug 24, 2008
@tabrez I also really like the idea of our finding a way to make our bug tracking system public. Prob makes most sense to do that when we make API available.
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