Here’s an attempt to build up a little list of the most important social media sites.
As it is far from being complete, it will be expanded from time to time…
Blogging
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Author: mr-mojo-risin
- Tags: bebo, blogcatalog, Blogger, brightkite, care2, del.icio.us, digg, diigo, entrecard, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, goodreads, googlereader, ilike, joost, last.fm, lijit, linkedin, livejournal, media, mybloglog, orkut, photobucket, picasa, reddit, seesmic, shelfari, sites, social, stumbleupon, twitter, Wordpress, xing, yahoo, youtube
News aggregators:
friendfeed.com
Friendfeed works as a feed of your social community activities, one adds services like flickr, picasa, twitter, google reader, digg, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, youtube, fast.fm and of course own blogs sharing the own post/messages/links with other people and commenting the interesting stuff from others. Seriously good source of hot news right from the streets!
toluu.com
A service to share and tag rss feeds and to find people of the same interest.
Quite new, one still needs an invite code – if you need one drop me a message.
delicious.com
Social bookmarking site, which recently launched a new, fresh layout, for sharing, tagging links, creating networks with friends/users of the same interest.
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Author: mr-mojo-risin
- Tags: blogcatalog, blogrush, del.icio.us, digg, flickr, friendfeed, fuelmyblog, media, mybloglog, ning, sites, social, toluu, web 2.0, yahoo
Viral Marketing, Social Marketing and digg-effect these buzz words symbolize the wet fantasy of many marketeers, making a product, brand or website the latest hype without spending a multi zillion Dollar budget on advertisement, sponsoring and PR.
The good news: Yes, it’s possible, no doubt. The bad one: It’s hard work combined with sensitiveness, knowledge and a certain dose of luck.
Simply dropping posts in forums, flooding social bookmarking sites with links and lean back, is like waiting for a good fairy granting three wishes, it might probably never happen.
There will never be a manual for the buckshot, but it’s no rocket-science either:
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The discussion whether the one is killing the other is getting hotter and the opinions are raging high.
First of all these two “opponents” are hard to compare as friendfeed being a information aggregation tool and twitter a hybrid between instant messenger and micro blogging device.
Both serve certainly completely different needs, twitter mainly focuses on spreading rather personal opinons/feelings/emotional states/gossip, only randomly establishing a real conversation.
Friendfeed resembles a honey pot of information gathered by its user acting as honey bees collected from various flowers, like Digg, GoogleReader, del.icio.us, stumbleupon and many more.
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