louisgray.com
In advance, my use of the word "stalker" is not intended to belittle any real-life stalking issues that are much more serious.I tend to view the Web and the interactions I have with people online optimistically, trusting first and dismissing only after repeat offenses through odd comments or bad behavior. As Cyndy's article (Read More)
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: "In His Sights" I just pre-ordered this book on amazon. It’s fascinating because its true. Obsession to the point where the hunted has to change her life, and it becomes her obsession to have a life that he cannot see. I will write a review, it should arrive August 5th.
In this day and age of Google, no one is hidden anymore. With every keystroke you are leaving a path to your door. How can we protect ourselves? And are we our worst enemy? From the book: “What if the man you’d loved for years vows, when you leave him, to destroy you? What if he transforms into a ruthless tormentor, stealing your freedom, undermining your sanity, and threatening your safety? This is not a fictional scenario. It is Kate Brennan’s life.”
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I will only post this once…
It is really hard today to find a social platform that simply blows you away from day one . (Read More)
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: I have to back this up. I see _a lot_ of new products like this, but SocialMedian has got to be one of the very best I've seen debut this year. Great work, Jason and team!
: I am right into this from the get-go too. Joined so many Social Media networks, but this is one of my top five - the others are FriendFeed, Twitter, Digg and Flickr
Mashable!
tipjoy launched earlier this year with the hopes of creating a better tipping community, and subsequently a better online marketplace for earning money and expressing your support of a particular site you like (somewhat similar to TipIt). While sites have been accepting donations for some time now, and this process has bee (Read More)
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Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
This week we're busy fixing about 100 user-submitted bugs. (Gee, thanks guys!) But, we also want to make some progress on your feature requests too. So, which of the following would you like to see us to do first? 1. Auto-share your socialmedian activity onto FriendFeed. 2. Import my blog to my socialmedian page. 3. (Read More)
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: Agree! we need to add person-group and person-person communications, replies, etc. working on it! polls and surveys are asked for a lot too. We have a feature up our sleeves to enable NewMakers to start and lead discussions with their readers via SMS :)
: Great Ideas, All of them. I'm still going to send a couple suggestion in an Email, only because they need a bit more thought, and will come with possible solutions. I would have already sent it, but, I was in meetings this afternoon and still have some catching up to do . Besides, I've got stories to clip. One little thing I can mention. I'm starting to feel like an orphanage for abandoned networks. I try to throw some stories in them whenever I find something relevant, but I feel like some of their owners might not be coming back. Have you had time to think about abandoned accounts. A couple I wouldn't mind taking over. I know this is low priority, and I would be disappointed to see you waste time on this right now. I read your blog and I had a feeling you might be working with a small team,but that would be an understatement. I'm am truly impressed at how much you've accomplished. Just like with Twitter, less is more. I don't remember your assistants name, but I'm sure he deserves credit also.
Submitted by Danielthepoet:
SocialMedian themselves encourage new sign-ups to follow the most active users on the site, so early adopters can use this to their advantage in building their network.
Articles are delivered via newsgroups. These are some of the most active SEO/SEM and Social Media groups I found. Follow the links to sign-up. (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
Let's be honest here: we're all a bunch of social media addicts. We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don't have a lot of. So (Read More)
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: This is definately a consideration when trying to budget your time online. With websites to manage, forums to moderate and blogs to write, social sites like Twitter and Friendfeed can steal time from more productive activities.
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Twitter is broken, but that's okay -- every time it breaks, it makes news. Every time it makes news, it squeezes out the competition and makes them look like a pale imitation. Even sites like Plurk just can't keep pace with the Twitter surge: 12 million users and counting. (Read More)
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Imagine if the world of Instant Messaging had been under one roof, if one vendor had invented it, and had 100 percent market share. Further, what if that vendor had the foresight that there would be other vendors and that compatibility between their services would make a huge market, and that incompatibility would keep the (Read More)
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Delicious/shariefsk
Socialmedian.com is a Twitter-like online community. Once on the site, you’ll be able to appreciate the interface, which reminds us of Twitter. To get started, you must first create an account with the site. This will allow you to start sharing links with those who follow you, and read the postings of those that you follow. (Read More)
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: Yes, that seems to be an error on their part. You can click "share" to share stories on socialmedian on to twitter, but we do not yet have the ability for you to get socialmedian updates tweet'd to you automatically. I do send several tweets per day with popular stories and discussions on socialmedian, but that's manual not automated.
Also, I don't really get that socialmedian is a "Twitter-like" online community?
: Um, SocialMedian is in no way "Twitter-like". Completely different design, user-interface, target market, use intent, not to mention it's up every time I come by. There is, however, the equivalent of an SM fail whale: try editing one of your comments.
Mac Rumors
AppleInsider claims that Apple resellers have received notice that MacBook, MacBook Pro and iPod supplies will become constrained in the coming weeks. Apple expects to decrease production of these models and, as a result, Apple is recommending that ... (Read More)
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Submitted by Scbalazs:
Everyone knows about social media sites like Digg and Reddit, but the fact is, they are incredibly hard to penetrate, and the traffic they offer is often superficial. For many bloggers, niche sites are a refreshing alternative to these behemoths, offering more targeted links and a much smaller base of competition. Read on t (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)
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: 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.
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)
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: 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 :)