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here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. social network failure
2. what is the best micro-blog?
3. services that attract most comments on friendfeed
4. the journalism that bloggers actually do
5. delicious 2.0 is here! meh.
6. social median

as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media.

Technorati Tags: social network, failure, micro-blog, comments, friendfeed, journalism, blogging, bloggers, delicious 2.0, social median

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb exploring the ui advantage that plurk has over other microblogging sites.

if you think about the basic functionality, all micro-blogging sites offer more or less the same. you can create an account, add some friends, and then message back and forth (privately and publicly) and share stuff with each other. what plurk does differently is the user interface and the effect of this change reverberates throughout the site. here are the major ui changes and their impact.

check ‘em out.

Technorati Tags: readwriteweb, social media, microblogging, twitter, plurk

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. 50 steps to establishing a consistent social media practice
2. facebook starts recommending friends
3. defining the next generation of social networking
4. wired’s guide on how to use twitter

as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media.

Technorati Tags: social media, facebook, social networking, wired, twitter

i’ve written a post on search engine land on the most promising feature that digg has seen in a long time. the article covers all the ins and outs of the recommendation engine along with what it gets right and what it doesn’t. check out the entire article.

Technorati Tags: search engine land, social media, social news, digg, recommendation engine

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. is plurk the myspace of micro-blogging?
2. complaining bloggers have cable company’s ear
3. ranking friendfeed users
4. friendfeed commentrank
5. is reddit sending more traffic than digg?
6. top 10 features twitter should but doesn’t have
7. feed readership growth statistics
8. muppets explain the internet

as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media.

Technorati Tags: plurk, myspace, micro-blogging, bloggers, friendfeed, reddit, digg, social news, social media, twitter, rss, internet

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. early sketches of twitter
2. posty adds indenti.ca support
3. 15% of fortune 500 companies have blogs
4. putting social back into social media
5. you have reached your follow limit

as always, everyone is welcome to join the room and start or join conversations as long as they are relevant to social media.

Technorati Tags: twitter, posty, identi.ca, fortune 500, blogs, social, social media

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. usatoday goes a-twitter
2. has blogging lost its relational focus?
3. the future of newspapers
4. defining sex 2.0
5. what do you think of posty?
6. choosing the right social media
7. myspace for millionaires
8. the intersection of news and social networks
9. the changing newsroom
10. another digg acquisition rumor

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. the happiest seo in the sea
2. corporate social networks are a waste
3. gm’s failure baffles social media strategists
4. the story of the fail whale
5. cartoon: wikipedia editors
6. cartoon: favicon deadpool

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. 7 cheats for hitting the digg front page
2. social media experts: the new webmasters?
3. 233 niche social networking sites
4. using social media to advertise to women
5. google sued for committing fraud
6. are you using ping.fm?
7. last.fm: the social music revolution is here

here’s a recap of the most active conversations from the social media room.

1. what do you think of the new facebook?
2. anyone else sick of the term ’social media’
3. digg traffic to print media decreasing
4. how do i rank higher on search engines?
5. twitter acquires summize