Social Media

At long last, we have a new Delicious. Faster, more accessible, and better designed, the redesigned and renamed social bookmarking champion is no longer a vision of the future but an establishment of the present. I’m not going to cover the launch here– if you’d like to read more, check out ReadWriteWeb or TechCrunch’s excellent coverage– but rather, address an issue that’s remained relatively unchanged with the 2.0 iteration: tagging.

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As more content and conversation is aggregated, aggregation services have even arisen to sort out the aggregates, resulting in an almost overwhelming firehose of social media noise. We need an innovator– fast– to keep us from drowning in information that is extraneous, duplicate, meaningless, or offensive.

Fortunately for the Internet, we have that innovator: FriendFeed. This new-age service has revealed to us the true ‘fourth generation’ of social media value: filtering.

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Real-time competitiveness makes Plurk sticky

by Andy DeSoto on July 25, 2008

I think I’ve figured out what helps make social network Plurk so sticky, why it continues to draw users back increasingly more often for longer periods of time: the Plurk timeline not only shows the conversations that you’re engaged in, but those that your friends and followers are keeping up with, too. Let me be a [...]

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