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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.

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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

muhammad saleem, the social media maven, tells listeners tips on using social media effectively.

please check out the rest of my interview with nate moller.

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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.

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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

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

1. facebook to open source platform
2. friend connect and the end of the fragmentation era
3. microsoft jumping into social bookmarking
4. old media needs to get over its control issues

if you like what you’re seeing, drop by the room and join a conversation. if you don’t like what you’re seeing, join the room and start a new conversation.

Technorati Tags: facebook, open source, platform, friend connect, fragmentation, microsoft, social bookmarking, old media, control

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

1. economics of new media: pay to play or free?
2. the best way to get noticed on the social web
3. how to manage your time across social sites
4. how fast is social video growing?
5. the shareaholic firefox add-on
6. in twitter’s scoble problem, a business model
7. semantic tagging with faviki
8. is being popular on digg a full-time job?

these are some of the best conversations we’ve had in the room thus far. if you like what you’re seeing, drop by the room and join a conversation. if you don’t like what you’re seeing, join the room and start a new conversation.

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

1. what social media podcasts should you be listening to?
2. why is friendfeed more popular than jaiku?
3. friendfeed comments wordpress plugin
4. twitter’s business model
5. newspapers missing the benefit of social media
6. social networks’ sway may be underestimated

if you like what you’re seeing, drop by the room and join a conversation. if you don’t like what you’re seeing, join the room and start a new conversation.

Technorati Tags: social media, podcast, friendfeed, jaiku, twitter, business model, newspapers, social networks

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

1. twittermania: 140+ more twitter tools!
2. digsby = im + email + social networks
3. twitter blaming issues on 3rd party api based tools?
4. zemanta: blog me up!
5. how to find friendfeed rooms with google
6. web 2.0 and the hype factor

if you like what you’re seeing, drop by the room and join a conversation. if you don’t like what you’re seeing, join the room and start a new conversation.

Technorati Tags: social media, friendfeed, twitter, digsby, zemanta, google, web 2.0, hype