Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

I did a quick screencast of our attempt to add a third party, Hector Diaz, to a video chat on SocialEyes.com. As you’ll see in the video, we didn’t do very well.

Conversations are more significant than we are aware of, more powerful than we acknowledge. They are much like breathing.”

On December 1, a slew of celebrities “died” online. Their digital identities at Twitter and Facebook were killed off in an attempt to raise $1 Million for Alicia Key’s BuyLife.org. The success of this charity endeavor would seem to fall on whether their fans were truly engaged.

“Fourtrace is a research project in “Advanced topics in Computer Networking” at University of California, Santa Barbara. Our goal is to find out if it’s possible to predict where a user is at a given time.”

The value of identifying the connections in the social graph has not been lost on the Facebook team. They want to control the social graph. They’ve been mapping our conversations without the limitations of their API all along and have created “an index for each relationship.” And they are now ready to tell us who our friends really are.

Aren’t companies which try to engage with their customers on social networks almost as sad as people who obsess about how many Facebook friends they have?

Formulists is something I wish I had thought of. “Formulists is a list creation and management tool that allows users to effortlessly generate dynamic and personalized Twitter lists that continuously self-update.”

It’s become routine for me to “tune in” to REBarcamps using Tweetgrid.com/irc. I set up the feed in the morning and let it run all day. I’m trying to look at signal vs noise. Here’s a video that looks at #REBCSTL.

How do we increase the signal to noise ratio in conference twitter streams? Is Twitter even the best place to share the content? These are some of the questions I’m left with after monitoring the REBCNASH stream on Twitter.

My current opinion of “lo so” puts location-based social networks somewhere between stupid and dangerous. If these services are going to thrive, I’m going to need a better reason to check in than letting my sphere know where I am.