Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
Living on the cutting edge as early adopters at times can seem like an exclusive club. The tools we use every day have funny names to the outside world - Twitter... OPML... Technorati... Plurk? But while we're hanging out in these oxygen-poor communities, and seeking out new ways to aggregate all our online activities in on (Read More)
: @louisgray I use the email feature all the time. I used to email my self so I can store great and important stuff in Gmail. Thanks for a great article.
: I still have not made the transition from Netnewswire reader to Google Reader, although I do routinely update Google Reader with all my feeds.
BUt I do like the idea of this email function mucho.
: Louis - hate to be a pain but .. really? Google Reader is the way that you evangelize your mom to RSS? And you start your day with it? Really?
Look, crappy UI aside I find GR to be both confusing and tiresome. Or maybe I'm not familiar with the right way to use it? For instance it seems that you can't share all your favorites (starred selections) at once and instead must share one at a time. I could go on.
Instead, I think social|median makes it much easier to preview and share information and opinions - as well as to interact. If you need proof consider that I read this post on S|M and I'm commenting here now.
Look, I'm a Google-head like everybody else. I think they rule. But when is Google going to graduate from the college-dorm-room look and feel you get when you use one of their tools? It used to be cute but now ...
The Next Web:
One of the nice things of sending out a weekly newsletter, are the replies of our readers. Man, a lot of them are doing interesting things. Like Gabriel Aldamiz-Echevarria, Strands.com VP of communications. His company has been around during four years focusing on developing recommendation technologies to help people discov (Read More)
: Been using this today, but just got overwhelmed immediately with all the updates, just from following 5 people. Each update seems to take up a huge amount of space, just a waste really. The updates can be much smaller, easier to scan and navigate.
But, it's only a few hours on and off and i love the general feel and look of it. Certainly feel more at home with this than i ever have done with Friend Feed.
Certainly has potential. And the support when I emailed them, John Rogers was SUPER fast in getting back when I was asking about how to integrate SocialMedian into the stream, which I now have done. Woop.
Worth watching.
Submitted by christiananderson
from blog.
Source MEDIAdeluge:
Since socialmedian’s public launch in July of this year, the social news site has very rapidly improved on its initial offering. socialmedian continues to offer powerful news filtering tools, but over the summer, CEO Jason Goldberg and his team have added major new features on nearly a weekly basis.Most recently, socialmedi (Read More)
: It takes a bit to get your head round but I'm beginning to see some incredible potential in this - particularly for a content creator -it's just a question of making the communication channels talk!
Submitted by imjustcreative:
Over here in Australia we’re not quite as progressive or savvy as many of our US and European counterparts. We’re not pitchfork wielding hicks (despite what the British say), yet we tend to lag a few years behind global best practice. Subsequently, when it comes to social media, many businesses are just beginning to wake up (Read More)