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Sean
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I found Twitter to be highly disruptive from a professional standpoint. If they make a few changes to the product, it *might* become a more valuable tool down the road. I just read a post about a guy that turned it off after receiving a 60.00 SMS bill & it points to the need for stronger settings & filtering by the service.
sean
Twitter is going to be interesting to watch. They have said that they are about to add group functions. I can see it being really useful to have a Bumbershoot group (for instance) where you and your friends Twitter what is happening through the weekend. It's tough right now because it's so broad. I do enjoy it though.
Have you seen this:
http://twittermap.com/twittervision/
Thanks for sharing :)
sean
sean
Ning: I joined your Ning community with some reservations (will it add value to what's already in this blog?) Current opinion: wait and see.
Twitter: I would love it if my son (currently in the UK) would log his goings-on, but he couldn't be bothered. And I couldn't be bothered to learn what other people not personally important to me have had for lunch. For me, useful for loved ones only.
Wallop: Looks promising, requested invitation to join. I like the invitation only aspect - if I understand the concept correctly, it means that you aren't on exhibit subject to predators.
del.icio.us: I signed up and tagged a few sites I use a lot. Not sure if I need this. I almost always have my laptop (and my favorites) with me. Web searches find me what I need. Am I interested in other people's bookmarks? Certainly there are some out there I would find useful or interesting, but do I want to spend my time wading through lots of useless stuff to find a few gems? This is something for people with a lot of time on their hands.
technorati: I like this site for looking for blogs or blog postings on a particular subject, but I can see that bloggers would value it to see how their blog is rated. Also interesting to see what subjects people are mostly blogging about - in this respect the site is a mirror of societal fads and interests. The only downside is having to think up yet another user name and password!
Mybloglog: This site was new to me - it is fast and looks nice, so it can feed the egos of members who post their information there. I personally don't need what this site has to offer. If I click on one of someone's communities, it gives me a list of all the members of the community (I don't need that). From there I have to click on the community's URL to see what the community is about. I'd like to go there directly.
corank/Digg: I like the concept of being able to submit the URLS of external story items (e.g. blog postings, news items, etc.) to be evaluated by other users. I was familiar with Digg, but corank was new to me. Judging by the discussion in the corank forums, user ratings are not necessarily a reliable indicator of quality, however, since "thumbs-down" can mean anything from "The article is bad" to "I'm not interested in the subject matter". Also there are discussions around "spammers" who thumbs-down or thumbs-up everything indiscriminately. Nevertheless definitely worth browsing - the search functionality is good. I find it fascinating that in some respects the community determines what you look at - only the popular articles bubble up to the front page. The fact that they are popular invites you to read articles you wouldn't otherwise be interested in - perhaps at the expense of other content that you don't have time for afterwards. Manipulation by the masses? (I'm sure there's a nicer sounding sociological term for this...)
QnA: I really like this concept. QnA is also a fun place to answer questions, because you don't have to be an expert on anything special - everyone should be able to find some question they can answer. It's a question of setting up yet another account and whiling away the time browsing through the questions. This can mean wading through loads of goofy questions, though, submitted by not-so-serious members. Because of the QnA format, riddle masters are also plying their trade on the site.
That's all I had time for today...
Man, the Web is really screwing with the rungs on the ladder of success. :-P
I know you left yourself an out by claiming that this not a review of services and that you are just dabbling in many of these tools/serivces. But inquiring minds still want to know what criteria you're using even in making snap judgments. Is it value of the community to you personally, technological innovation, business impact, etc?
It's the myspace comments that make me ask (and let's table the arguments on just what myspace is for now.) We're both guys of a certain age, with a family, in a specific industry and maybe even similar interests (you like to cook BBQ and I like to eat the BBQ you cook.) So, in those respects, I tend to agree with your comments.
But, I'm also a huge music fan, worked in the business when we still sold large black circles, and still have pals in retail (yes, Virginia there are still record stores and some of them even make money) and bands. I would argue that myspace is the best thing to happen for music in the digital era, and perhaps the most successful distribution mechanism for bands, regardles of label affiliation.
There's lots of buzz around the fact that myspace has it's first real star in Lily Allen, but I'm far more interested in the impact it's had on musicians making niche music (power pop is my drug of choice) that have rabid, if small fanbases, as well as those who may have been players in the new wave/indie boom of the late 70s/early 80s who are still making great music but have hertofore lacked good ways of connecting directly with listeners,
Point being, it's the prism we view any of these things through that impacts our analysis. What prism are you using?
I am continuing to waste my energy on twitter...but...why not:)
I went into some of them and they seem quite interesting.
I just wanted to add a game, which is ReaLife (http://secondlife.com). I'm sure you and your readers know about it already: now it seems many Companies (but not only them, also Politicians, Organizations, etc) are using this game to "promote" themselves and add their persons/representatives into this kind of new online community world. It's more than "The Sims", more than a community, because it lets the user to interact in every possible way with other users everywhere in the world.. Also, Companies and Organizations could actually promote themselves using online tools, like in the real world.
I think I'm gonna have a deeper look into that .. :-)
- I mispelled the game name: name is Second Life
- I would like to point you to this interesting article about Investors on Second Life (http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles....)
And third, as it seems not to have any correlations with web-based communities, they actually have! :-)