Better social media engagement through user experience and social practices
Feeling overfed lately? Sidle up to the trough, there’s company here. Yes, subscribing to feed-based applications can be like drinking from a firehose, especially during times like these. When the daily news is itself the
Like many of you, I simply can’t keep up with the river of lifestreaming applications hitting public beta this year. Many seem to simply do the same thing, more or less, with a bit more
Twitter’s success over the past year has given birth to a new category of social media applications. Lifestreaming apps, known also as flow applications, permit users to publish a steady stream of online activity. Readwriteweb.com
Jeremiah Owyang has posted his thoughts on what may come in the long-term for the social web, beginning with the increasing relevance of activities like friending: Why ‘Friending’ Will Be Obsolete. He writes that as
I don’t know if this bespeaks a major trend, but I’ve noticed that of the slew of news and friend aggregators, services seem built on a choice between aggregation of content around people (as sources)
Using Radian6 to investigate social media conversations around one of my own personal involuntary preoccupations — climate change — I geeked out this afternoon for a while and have these screen shots to share and