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

1. help create a description for the social media room
2. ben stiller’s viral video
3. twitter is a complete waste of time
4. what newspapers still don’t understand about the web
5. interview with alexis ohenian
6. so… what do you think of plurk?
7. how accessible are you online?
8. how many fake employees do you have?
9. is the “best of” feature decreasing interaction?

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, friendfeed room, ben stiller, viral video, newspapers, web, alexis ohenian, plurk, accessibility, facebook, interaction, friendfeed

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

1. technology review: social search
2. plurk: the near-perfect lifestreaming experience has arrived
3. hello my name is e
4. what is the future of social networking?
5. techcrunch launches elevator pitches

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: technology, review, social search, plurk, lifestreaming, social networking, techcrunch, elevator pitches

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on what i believe will be the next big lifestreaming service.

when I first heard about plurk I was ready to hate it. but after using the site and comprehensively going over the feature set and its implementation i am thoroughly impressed. ultimately, i think plurk is an amazing evolution over the previous generation of lifestreaming services that does almost everything you’d expect to find and does it better, while adding unique and interesting features of its own.

read on for the complete review and guide to plurk.

Technorati Tags: social media, plurk, lifestreaming, readwriteweb

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

1. 5-step plan for building a twitter killer
2. we need tags for friendfeed, or do we?
3. how social media didn’t change business
4. 15 useful greasemonkey scripts for delicious users
5. bad intentions, meet social media
6. do we need a friendfeedfeed to aggregate friendfeed?
7. who sees parallels with the dot com bubble?

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, tags, friendfeed, social media, business, greasemonkey, scripts, delicious, bubble

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

1. what avatar should the social media room have?
2. developing tactical knowledge on social media sites
3. what features do friendfeeders want most?
4. the most exciting friendfeed feature
5. plurk, plurk, plurk, plurk, plurk, plurk
6. digg alerter - alerting digg addicts worldwide
7. a personal spin on news surfing
8. are blog comments conversations or just replies?

please remember that this room is for posting and discussing only those stories that are related to social media. i have heard some complaints from some users and i really don’t want to ban anyone from the room for posting irrelevant or spammy links. also, please browse the room before you post to ensure you don’t start multiple threads on the same topic (also see plurk above). that said, there are tons of conversations for you to chime in so have your say!

Technorati Tags: blog, comments, conversations, news surfing, digg alerter, digg, plurk, friendfeed, social media, avatar

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on what i think has the potential of becoming a useful question-answer service for twitter.

while everyone takes a break to bash twitter these past couple of weeks for the infrastructure troubles they’ve been having, i thought i would chime in with a useful service that i accidentally found within the past few days, which promises to increase my twitter productivity and success with questions. the service is @answerme, which helps facilitate asking questions and getting answers over twitter.

read on to find out more about @answerme.

Technorati Tags: twitter, @answerme, readwriteweb

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

1. the part of social news sites that is most attention worthy
2. blame it on scoble
3. the greater internet dickwad theory
4. your favorite way to bookmark and share?
5. friendfeed, complexity, and twitter
6. which followers are most important? blog, twitter, others?
7. should you pay for twitter?
8. what do you use twitter for?
9. the social media gender gap

the social media room is now the most happening room on friendfeed. join the magic.

Technorati Tags: social media, gender gap, twitter, blog, friendfeed, complexity, share, bookmark, scoble, internet, social news

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

1. how to improve your presence on the social web
2. are we social or anti-social?
3. the ultimate yahoo pipes creation list
4. reflections on flock, the social browser
5. friendfeed and noise filtering
6. what is friendfeed?
7. is social media worth it?
8. social media in 140 characters
9. friendfeed’s killer app
10. social media in simple english
11. the most despised figure in social media
12. is blogging social media?
13. your biggest social media achievement
14. are you a conversation starter?

the social media room is now the most happening room on friendfeed.

Technorati Tags: social web, yahoo pipes, flock, social+ browser, friendfeed, social media, blogging, conversation

when digg released their new comment system about 2 weeks ago they also made an update to their url structures to bring them in line with a previous update where they had implemented a universal taxonomy. The universal taxonomy allows you to submit any type of content (news, pictures, videos) to any category (technology, world and business, science, and so on) and then sort by media type in the upcoming and front page sections for any subcategory.

so, for example, you can browse upcoming as:

http://digg.com/[media type or 'all']/upcoming/most

or browse the front page as:

http://digg.com/[media type, 'all', or leave blank]

the problem, was that they had implemented this for the overall upcoming section and the front page but hadn’t actually implemented it for upcoming sections for different categories or subcategories and you could only browse upcoming subcategories as follows:

http://digg.com/[category or subcategory]/upcoming/most

however with this update they have applied the universal taxonomy to those as well, transforming the link above to:

http://digg.com/[media type or 'all']/[category or subcategory]/upcoming/most

and what they failed to do was redirect the older structures to the newer ones. in fact, when i first encountered this problem i thought that the site was actually down or having problems (because i was using the older url structures not knowing that they had changed and not finding out because they weren’t redirecting).

now i know only a little about how search works and how the integrity and value of different pages on a site work but i don’t imagine this being good for them at all. so, note to digg: use redirects.

special thanks to chris winfield for pointing this out. you can follow him on twitter for other interesting updates.

Technorati Tags: digg, social media, universal taxonomy, redirect

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

1. which social media site are you most active on and why?
2. flock - the mozilla-powered social browser
3. twitter will die, here’s why
4. friendfeed rooms are like forums 2.0
5. how to run a blog from within a friendfeed room
6. friendfeed and xml
7. 4 tools for improving comments on your blog
8. how many rss feeds do you subscribe to?

some great discussions going on in the room this very moment. join and be heard!

Technorati Tags: social media, flock, mozilla, browser, twitter, friendfeed, forums, blog, xml, comments, rss