Social Media Sites (an update)

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 WordPress  |  WordPress Factsheet Blogger  |  Blogger Factsheet Tumblr  |  Tumblr Factsheet LiveJournal  |  LiveJournal Factsheet Skyrock  |  Skyrock Factsheet Blogcatalog  |  Blogcatalog Factsheet MyBlogLog  |  MyBlogLog Factsheet Entrecard  |  Entrecard Factsheet Ameba  |  ameba Factsheet

Social media sites

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 Read More …

Social Media – get some tailwind out of communities

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 Read More …

Twitter vs Friendfeed

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. Read More …