Or maybe I should say that they
almost went to Macworld? According to Red Herring, imeem was throwing a party for the new Mac version of their social software product right next door to Macworld.
This news caught my eye and brought me out of my non-blogging cocoon -- spun quite tight from too many months of
working 16 hour days managing all things having to do with our 150 bloggers here at Weblogs, Inc.!
I
have started to read my social feeds again and will be dropping back in here to give my .02 from time to time. Thanks
to Brad Hill and Barb Dybwad for making The Social Software Weblog their blogging home too over these last months! Barb
will be back soon, from Hawaii to CES 2006 and working alongside the rest of the Weblogs, Inc. team, she's caught a bit
of the same 'cat corraling' fever that i've been delirious with over this last year! Thanks for listening, and let me
know if you've had a chance to try out this new Mac version of the imeem beta.
Karina, Brian, Jason, Vince, and Scott from WIN are all at Live8 giving us
Insider coverage of this musical event with a profound purpose. Yesterday
and last night were fraught with high winds, rain, thunder, and lightning—amazing light show last night, nature's
fireworks. But today is beautiful for the Live8 event in
Philadelphia: sunny, 74 degrees right now, and dry-er than it has been in days here.
Give Live8Insider a visit to keep up with the events as they unfold on
Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philly. The ONE rally has
already begun behind the Philadelphia Art Museum.
Well, I've been more than busy doing the editorial director thing here at Weblogs, Inc. But, I've received tons of
social software tips lately, (hey barb, do you see them too?) and i thought i would at least mention a few that i will
be looking at when i have a few minutes.
There's bayBuddies for eBay aficionados, tip from Jim Beggs;
ReBlg from my friend Marc Canter (i'll finally be checking it out this weekend Marc);
and a tip from Derrick Oien that Rabble was
featured in the New York Times. Go
Rabble!
I'll definitely be back in the blogging seat this coming week. Headed off on a road trip now. Have a great
weekend!
How many bloggers can say they have created five thousand weblog posts?
Not many I would wager, but Peter Rojas can.
Peter started blogging Engadget on the Weblogs, Inc. network in March of 2004
and, in the last 15.5 months, made an average of 323 posts/month, or slightly more than 10 and a half posts/day, every
day, for the last 469 days. And that's just here on Engadget. Peter has actually been blogging every single day for the
last three years and is most likely closer to a career record of almost 10k posts.
It is appropriate to note that Peter, the 'father' of Engadget, should publish his 5k post as:
I've been so incredibly busy lately that i have been neglecting my social software weblog terribly. Readers still
send me tips quite regularly, Barb Dybwad takes time out from her busy Engadget editing schedule to blog here, and i
blog here often—in my thoughts.
Tonight Bob Sassone asked me if I was going to watch the season opener of Six Feet Under and report out on it over at
TV Squad. Unfortunately, I worked right through the season opener but… i now have
a Comcast dual processor DVR and was able to tape it and am watching it now.
Federico is doing the Internet dating thing to try and fill the void in his life left by Vanessa. Who knew?
Match.com.
Any other Six Feet Under fans out there? Now there's a social network—the extended
Fisher clan.
Thefacebook landed more funding and plans to extend their campus
coverage to all of the four-year colleges and universities in the United States by fall term this year according to
MediaPost.
A reader recently suggested that i create a new category on the SNS Meta List for Campus related services.
I have received tips recently for a few more online communities for 'students only':
iVentster.com self-described as "A Peer-to-Peer, Underground, Campus events
powerhouse"; UFOUS that claims
- "there is a better way to meet people"; Campushopper that encourages you to ''Expand Your Hub''; and
MonsterPapers where you can download term paper essay, research paper examples and get book report help (hmmm,
MonsterPapers doesn't sound like a YASNS but introduced themselves as one in a comment on the MetaList.) Liz
Lawley reminds me that when a site looks like an opportunistic linker, it most likely is an opportunistic leech. Hi
Liz, thanks for stopping by…
An excerpt from the email that 'Benkay' forwarded to me:
"...Classface.com is a completely new way to meet other teenagers and organize your social life at your school. The
site is something like "The highschoolers guide to the galaxy" – and we think we're off to a good start, but we need
your help! It is you guys who made RMT into what it is - and it is you who will make Classface another special place,
too.
Please login at Classface.com and dive right in — fill out your profile, upload your photo and please invite all
your friends too! ..."
Any RateMyTeachers readers here? Tried Classface yet?
UPDATE: Amit Gupta dropped me a note that: "...it's probably more accurate to say that the site is
a joint-venture. The companies involved are The Daily Jolt, Bolt, RateMyTeachers and RateMyProfessors…" So, what he
said.
Back in March I penned a post about Donna
Hanover's book—My Boyfriend's Back.
It appears from the tales of over 600
couples on the MyBoyfriendsBack.com website that there's a whole lot of
reuniting going on.
I haven't read the book, and i'm still not one of the millions who has joined Classmates.com but i did move back home
to the ''right'' coast a couple of years ago and keep running into people who look ever so slightly familiar.
I received this tip that Sassa is out at Friendster, checked Jeremy Zawodny's
blog, and it appears to be solid.
Friendster hasn't been on my radar for quite some time now. MySpace, Flickr, del.icio.us, LinkedIn and Yahoo! 360 have
been the social networking services in my life lately.
Rob Hof over at The Tech Beat also
confirms that Scott
Sassa leaves Friendster as of June 13, 2005.
Wonder what potential means of resuscitation new CEO Taek Kwon might bring to the Friendster scene?
I think that this is the
61st post in which i
explicitly mention 'online dating', but certainly i've posted more than 61 times about various online dating
services?
Must…update…Social Networking Services Meta List!
I've been so busy doing the editorial director thing here at Weblogs, Inc. that i have been very negligent in updating
my long list of YASNS.
For example, in the
news this evening for online dating alone is: Online dating for golfers,
an online dating service that integrates Google Maps, a dating profile
verifier, and a safer way to
connect.
I'm a text messenger from way back. Way back being when BlackBerries were only pagers and we text messaged each
other while in important meetings or out of the office to make sure that we all had the same information and were all
telling the same stories.
Howard Rheingold has a great bit on Jeff Axup—a Ph.D
candidate in Australia's University of Queensland's Information Environments program—and the importance of observing
homo sapiens in their natural environments whilst communicating in motion ala
MoSoSo.
Gossip as a form of primary travel information. Blogs as a form of friendly gossip. There is something so wonderfully
real or near-real time about gossip, especially friendly travel gossip. Our
Gadling blog here at Weblogs, Inc. is a form of friendly travel gossip. Blogs
encourage this manner of swapping stories, especially in ongoing comments, trackbacks, tagging, digg-ing, slashdotting,
flickr-ing, etc.
Howard has some great quotes from Jeff Axup, a snippet of one: "...Technology greatly influences how people act…" and,
i believe, people's actions greatly influence technology. People create tools. A lot of people create a lot of tools.
Engineers often create tools that serve some of the people some of the time, and often very little attention is
actually paid to observing the utilization of these ''some of the time'' tools ''in the field'' or in the daily motion
of our lives.
Imagine a world where the tools you used actuallly fit your needs? Or, could morph to meet them?
I use Bloglines to keep up with some blogging news, in
adddition to using a firehose of funky combinations of Google news alerts, keyword alerts, numerous news wires, etc.
all funneling into a Gmail account with Labels (btw, have you seen Darren Rowse's
'Warning
About Checking Gmail RSS On Bloglines'?).
Haven't tried Bloglines on my mobile device, but Fredrik Wacka gives a
tip
today that: Bloglines Mobile + Opera for Mobile = Your feeds everywhere.
One of the things I like about Bloglines is that i can 'share' my feeds and also see who is referring to various posts
i am interested in following—a more 'social' aspect of this social media tool peeking through. Bloglines recommends
various feeds when i first launch it, some of which i find interesting, and others, well, not at all. I find most
recommendation engines fairly hit or miss.
Did you catch Stephen Baker's
post on his chat with the CEO of Bloglines about releasing "...a blog search engine this summer which will surpass
the likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub…"? Do we believe this?
Unfortunately, I was too busy to attend Syndicate this week but, 'to feed and how much to feed' is likely a question
on many an advertiser, marketer, or publisher's mind right now (or certainly should be according to
Rebecca Lieb among others).
Found a new dream job? Now find ''your pad'' and your hood and your
peeps and/or your people.
Michelle Keller of The Stanford Daily
recommends the
ubiquitous craigslist to help find your dream housing to go along with your dream job and your dream roommates and your
dream neighbors and neighborhood.
Slowly now, step away from the computer… [warning, tags ahead!]
This is about the 30th
mention of MySpace that I've made here on The Social Software Weblog.
Technorati has a MySpace tag. Flickr has a couple of
MySpacead photos. And Google has
millions of search results for MySpace which is also in the news…
constantly. And, we're not just talking
blogging news here either.
Billy Corgan is in the
news for using MySpace, he has a great Dark City
like wallpaper on his Space. And, live bands for Wrestlestock 2005 are
advertising that they'll be playing this event on their Spaces.
Personally I've found some great Indie tracks via the
Music page at MySpace. Give a listen to what's
playing in The Booth.
The TiEcon 2005, put on by 'The Indus Entrepreneurs' or TiE, described as ''the world's largest conference for
entrepreneurs'', takes place today and tomorrow. To be considered for an Emerging Star award one must be a private
company with more than $1M in funding and $10M in revenues.
Socialtext and
Technorati 'shone' in the TiEcon 'Internet' category.
Other categories included: ERM, Networking, Semiconductor, Services, Security, Software and Wireless.
A 'lucky' Friday the 13th event for both Ross Mayfield and David Sifry, and their excellent teams!
Or maybe I should say that they
almost went to Macworld? According to Red Herring, imeem was throwing a party for the new Mac version of their social software product right next door to Macworld.
This news caught my eye and brought me out of my non-blogging cocoon -- spun quite tight from too many months of
working 16 hour days managing all things having to do with our 150 bloggers here at Weblogs, Inc.!
