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

1. keep your eyes on friendfeed: it may be the google of social networks
2. twitter at the crossroads
3. the dream of one online identity
4. what will become of delicious?
5. the impact of rooms on friendfeed engagement

understandably much of the initial conversation is focusing on friendfeed and the launch of their new feature. join the room and share your thoughts on social media.

Technorati Tags: social media, friendfeed, google, social networking, twitter, online, identity, delicious, engagement

rss definitely its place on my computer and in my workflow, but have you ever wanted an incredibly easy way to share your musings and get feedback on them? how about easily receive other people’s thoughts and discuss them live? and finally, the ability to aggregate all your activity across the social web in one place?

if you have, and you’re interested in social media, well then you’d better be joining a friendfeed room i just created for those exact purposes: the friendfeed social media room.

a room is like a mini friendfeed for a particular subject or group of people. you can make a room for your family, your work team, or your knitting club.

Technorati Tags: friendfeed, social media

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on what could’ve been the future of the social news space.

the way we create, interact with, and share information on the web is continuously changing, and at a very rapid pace. the end goal, most would argue, is the create a medium that completely democratizes the entire process. this evolution has taken us through editorially driven community sites (slashdot), socially driven bookmarking sites (del.icio.us), and socially driven news sites (digg), but none of them have really managed to figure out how to make the newspaper of the future. just launched knewsroom, one of the first apps from kluster (readwriteweb’s coverage), believes that it has gotten it right, but has it really?

find out in this complete look at knewsroom.

Technorati Tags: social news, digg, +readwriteweb, kluster, knewsroom

on a daily basis there is a new social media site created. there is basically a site for every person from every background. we spoke with muhammad saleem, social media maven, about his opinion about a variety of sites, social media marketing and the most important elements to keep in mind when engaging in the space.

please check out the rest of my interview with marketinghackz.

Technorati Tags: muhammad saleem, interview, social media, marketinghackz

i’ve written a post on search engine land on the future of your company’s pitch.

the landscape of corporate public relations is changing fast. first the press release died and we told you how to write a press release for the social media audience. now the elevator pitch is dead and here’s how to adapt.

visit search engine land to find out how to adapt.

Technorati Tags: search engine land, social media, twitter, elevator pitch, twitpitch

i’ve written a guest post at read/writeweb on how the content promotion algorithm is making the quality on the front page of digg suffer.

note: this isn’t meant as an attack on any user and his or her submissions. all the users mentioned and displayed on the graphs are my friends and i respect their submissions. this post is just meant to point out the flaws of digg’s content promotion algorithm.

read the full article.

Technorati Tags: digg, social news, social media, quality, algorithm, content promotion, readwriteweb

twitt(url)y is a new service that uses a link tracking mechanism over a 24-hour periods to determine what people are talking about on twitter at a given moment. the service displays the 100 most popular urls with threads of tweets discussing the links.

competing services include twitlinks, tweetmeme, and quotably.

Technorati Tags: microblogging, twitter, twitturly, twitlinks, tweetmeme, quotably

thanks for the overwhelming response to my presentation at the web 2.0 expo san francisco 2008 on social media optimization and marketing. here are the original slides along with all the references i used within the presentation.

i have disabled downloading for now but you can embed the presentation on your site using the code.

references:

1. industry rules for social media optimization
2. comparative analysis of technologies used on fortune 500 and inc. 500 corporate web sites [pdf]
3. how to build a ‘digg culture’ on your blog
4. three month overview of social news and bookmark popular topics
5. link attraction factors [pdf]
6. the 10-second rule: how to write for diagonal readers
7. writing headlines for regular readers, search engines, and social media
8. high impact content “above the scroll” in four easy steps
9. the social media manual
10. how to shout on social media sites without screaming
11. understanding the digg algorithm
12. leveraging social media sites to increase search visibility

stowe boyd has completely shift to twitpitch as his sole medium for companies to make pitches to him. sarah perez has previous coverage of twitpitch.

Technorati Tags: twitter, twitpitch, stowe boyd, sarah perez, readwriteweb, rww

inside facebook has an interesting look at the cpm different developers are getting on their facebook applications.

Technorati Tags: inside facebook, facebook, cpm, developers, facebook applications