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05 Nov 08

Are The Kids Voting? (And Why Web Users Should Care) - ReadWriteWeb

  • On paper, the millennials sound like a revolutionary generation dead set on changing the status quo. Their insubordination at work is only due to their lack of buy in - "Generation Why" always need to know "why" something's being done. Their brand loyalty is completely up for sale - they're quick to move to the next big thing. They've cut back on TV viewing so they can listen to music or play video games. They're socially conscious and think they're a force to be reckoned with in politics. Oh yes, surely these kids are different.   
  • We may have to realize that the true force of change that's happening both online and off is the same as it ever was: early adopters enthusiastically adopt a product or service and, over time, it trickles down to the rest of the mainstream.
07 Jul 08

How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients - ReadWriteWeb

  • For all the press that FriendFeed got
    last week for allowing people to post replies directly to
    Twitter    , it was still 65th on our list and registered barely a fraction of
    total tweeting activity. Some
    analysts     think FriendFeed is a threat to Twitter's existence, but remember
    that 56% of users still interact with Twitter on the main site, and Twitter
    makes up 44%
    of activity     on FriendFeed. So which service is really more reliant on the
    other?
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01 Jul 08

Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web - ReadWriteWeb

  • Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web




    Written by Muhammad Saleem / June 30, 2008 2:48 PM

    / 4 Comments













    Collaborative Filtering (Wikipedia definition) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where there is either one or very few editors setting guidelines, the collaboratively filtered social web can have infinitely many editors and gets better as you increase the number of participants.

2008 Web Predictions - ReadWriteWeb

  • 2008 Web Predictions
  • 4. A handful of big companies will let you start logging in with an
    OpenID associated with your account.
23 Jun 08

How to Get Customer Service via Twitter - ReadWriteWeb

  • people are venting on Twitter as a last resort after the company failed to
    deliver quality support via more traditional channels.
  • Other methods for tweet tracking can involve using a service like Tweet Scan, which performs real-time monitoring
    of Twitter. Take a look at a Tweet Scan for keyword "Starbucks," for
    example, and see what we can learn:
22 Jun 08

Info Overload is no longer a joke. How can we deal with this growing issue? Read more..

  • Adding new aggregators is only a temporary solution. - mmarlatt on 2008-06-22

  • Info Overload: The Problem




    Written by Sarah Perez / June 18, 2008 5:32 AM

    / 14 Comments













    This will be post #1 of 2 posts on today's information overload problem and how we can cope. Part 2 is here.

  • Social Media Addicts - Sink or Swim?



    For social media addicts, which likely includes readers of this blog, the problem can be even worse. In addition to having our focus pulled away by productivity applications like email and IM, we're also pulled in a number of different directions as well - checking FriendFeed, Twitter, social networks, and more. (I wonder how many billions of dollars we waster per year?)



    For many people, these distractions are overpowering. No matter the time commitment, social media addicts can't help but spend entire chunks of their day online playing with the new, shiny internet toys. When we profiled several social media addicts earlier this year on Twitter, we discovered that a good many people spent several hours - even as many as 10 hours per day - online, immersed in the web and social media tools.



    It seems we're at a crossroads - there's so much information, but not enough filters. We can either drown in the lost productivity time sink that is the internet or we can swim...swim for our lives. The question is: how?

21 Jun 08

Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One - ReadWriteWeb

  • digg is not only a poster-child for Web 2.0
    success, it is also an excellent example of using the wisdom of crowds to
    organize and highlight information. digg's concept is simple: users submit links
    to websites, articles, news stories, photos, or videos, and other users vote on
    whether they are worth checking out. Depending on how many people, who, and how
    quickly links are "dugg" they may be promoted to the main page as a worthy link
    of the day.
  • StumbleUpon is a browser plugin for
    Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows users to rate and share web pages. The
    plugin is very straightforward: users vote thumbs up or thumbs down on pages and
    are served random pages based on their previous picks, specified topic areas of
    interest, and the picks of other like-minded users. The idea is that the
    sites with the most thumbs up votes, will be the most relevant. Further, users
    are fed sites that were voted up by others who share a similar vote history -
    i.e. the more you use StumbleUpon, the more it learns about what you like and
    the better recommendations it gives to everyone.
18 Jun 08

Info Overload: What Can We Do? - ReadWriteWeb

  • When facing a full inbox, new tweets, new posts on FriendFeed, and an RSS reader
    with 1000+ unread items, the stress often comes from not knowing where to begin.
    This is where having a routine can be important. An everyday ritual where you
    deal with A, then B, then C, etc. can help you put everything in order. Not
    everyone's routine will be the same - the trick is finding one that works for
    you, then sticking with it.
  • "social media consumption workflow."
13 Jun 08

Visualizing Social Media Fatigue - ReadWriteWeb




  • Visualizing Social Media Fatigue


    Written by Josh Catone / February
    8, 2008 10:58 AM / 17
    Comments


    <script type="text" />
    digg_url =
    'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/visualizing_social_media_fatigue.php';
    digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';
    digg_skin = 'compact';
    </script>

    <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text" /></script>




    Our attention is stretched so thin these days that there are
    times when I have actually tried to register for what I thought was a new
    service only to realize later that I already had an account -- it just got lost
    in the shuffle. With so many new web sites and services vying for our attention
    it is easy to feel the effects of social media fatigue. Andrew Shuttleworth, a
    social media junky living in Japan, thought it might be helpful to try to map
    his social media usage. The result is a staggering view of how information we
    put on the web flows.

    • I'm not out to criticize, but I'm very curious how he feels about it and if he feels like he's being more effective by belonging to so many services. When do we hit the law of diminishing returns?



      In any case, "Social Network Fatigue" and "Social Media Fatigue" is going to be the popular catchphrase of 2008 for Internet experts. As I've written last week, there already has been a rash of articles on the topic:




      1. MySpace is Engagement Are Down?

        "The average length of time users spend on all of the top three sites is on the slide. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook all took double-digit percentage hits in the last months of 2007." From the Register.Co.UK
      2. Google sees issue with Social Network Ads

        "We have found that social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected." George Reyes, CFO of Google. From the Financial Times
      3. Facebook Applications (Widgets) Decrease in Popularity

        "All of the top 10 leaderboard applications have seen substantial drops in daily users since peaking in November and December,"

        From Read/Write Web

Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

  • Complaints are rolling in and heated discussions are taking place about the
    noise levels within social media platforms.

  • Confusing Aggregation With Importation


    With so many different platforms to aggregate, noise levels are surging.

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