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I'm just curious to see which social networks you can't live without? Which ones do you use the most?
Mine are:
Twine, Twitter, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Last.fm, YouTube, StumbleUpon and Facebook.
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Ralph Mercer
4 months ago
use twine, identi.ca, and blog on wordpress, oh almost forgotI have a facebook profile but never go there. Really the only ones I'm having fun with (no work application) are twine and wordpress.
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kcxd
4 months ago
I use Twine, Wordpress (for blogging), Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook (but only as a communication tool with people I actually know.) Like John, I've found that Twine has made the existing social bookmarking sites seem rather irrelevant, but I do still use del.icio.us extensively at work.
I recently signed up to Swurl, which has a nice timeline feature that pulls your social networking activity into a calendar. At the moment it's lagging behind FriendFeed in terms of popularity, but the interface is much nicer.
I recently signed up to Swurl, which has a nice timeline feature that pulls your social networking activity into a calendar. At the moment it's lagging behind FriendFeed in terms of popularity, but the interface is much nicer.
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Shal
4 months ago
Twine,Netvibes (just start to see its potential in terms of 'social filtering' ),Skype,last.fm,Facebook (I've started to get in touch with people not directly forming part of my closest circles through Twine), Digg, Youtube (indirectly only with references from Twine),FriendFeed (nice for getting overview on people activities),various forums and mailing-list (look at things posted on these platforms less and less regularly .. only when I've got a specific question/issue .. what's great with the web is that people already asked about what you need to know and they also got relevant answers ^^) ... various blog family (zdnet,lemonde...),MySpace (for getting multimedia content from young artists I follow)
I've tried to convince myself regarding some 'reviewing' platforms (newswine,technorati,stumbleupon) but it takes 'too' long to submit (and i don't really want just to copy some parts as reviews on these places :(
I've tried to convince myself regarding some 'reviewing' platforms (newswine,technorati,stumbleupon) but it takes 'too' long to submit (and i don't really want just to copy some parts as reviews on these places :(
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Patrik Johansson
4 months ago
Well, after starting to use Twine I have been reducing my time on other social networks. I use StumbleUpon, not to bookmark, but to find new interesting stuff. I recently started to like Twitter and FriendFeed but still trying to figure out exactly what I will use them too:p
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mrgunn
4 months ago
I use whichever ones aren't overrun with marketing spam at the time. I don't use Digg, Stumbleupon, or Twitter that much.
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scott newell
4 months ago
Twine number 1, Freiendfeed, Facebook, Last f.m. twitter, also try searchme.com this is a real gamechanger in search. It displays results as a pagebook, you click on the page you want.
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Jack D. Logan
4 months ago
It's CoverFlow in a search engine, without Google-like results.
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Nova Spivack
4 months ago
Twine number 1, the others I really don't use. Facebook is kinda useless to me. LinkedIn I only use to respond to other people's requests.
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rpfiii
4 months ago
I'm with you Patrik re. Stumbleupon. I run that just to quickly dig up new and interesting stuff that hasn't appeared on my rss radar. Even that though is getting lame--after "stumbling" for a little while, you seem to start getting the same links again, like it's run out of material or something. I'm finding that Twine blows SU away in regards to digging up interesting stuff--Nova's interest-Net.
My kids are on Facebook all the time, as well as Myspace, although the older one seems to be losing interest in that--can you grow out of Myspace if you're not a Rock star or wannabee C-movie actress?
My kids are on Facebook all the time, as well as Myspace, although the older one seems to be losing interest in that--can you grow out of Myspace if you're not a Rock star or wannabee C-movie actress?
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Ranee Soundara
4 months ago
Yes, you can get bored of MySpace.
I was an early adopter on MySpace... and I got social network fatigue FAST... but that's only because my attention span doesn't last that long... and I've been around in the social networking game for a while (since I was 12).... as we grow older... some networks grow more irrelevant to us... when it comes down to it, if i really need to get in touch with someone, id just pick up my phone and call them ;)
I was an early adopter on MySpace... and I got social network fatigue FAST... but that's only because my attention span doesn't last that long... and I've been around in the social networking game for a while (since I was 12).... as we grow older... some networks grow more irrelevant to us... when it comes down to it, if i really need to get in touch with someone, id just pick up my phone and call them ;)
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Jack D. Logan
4 months ago
I really just use Twine, and now Last.FM quite a lot, but Twine has set a really high bar for SN. I have acc'ts. on all the ones on my home Twine page, but only look at them typically on request.
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Aasemoon
4 months ago
I've given a try to a lot of what's out there, but I only really use Twine and Last.fm.
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celine
4 months ago
twine, fb, linked in, twitter, did i mention twine?
my attentions have become pretty much, um, tied up with twine (sorry, really couldn't help that one) - certainly the only one with which i am actively engaged, connecting and learning.
at this point fb, li, twitter have become pretty utilitarian - event invites, passive professional updates, direct messages - and anything else that remotely fell under the social umbrella has really fallen off my map.
my attentions have become pretty much, um, tied up with twine (sorry, really couldn't help that one) - certainly the only one with which i am actively engaged, connecting and learning.
at this point fb, li, twitter have become pretty utilitarian - event invites, passive professional updates, direct messages - and anything else that remotely fell under the social umbrella has really fallen off my map.
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Bent Rasmussen
4 months ago
In order of appearance:
1) Twine
2) Last.fm
3) LinkedIn
...
4) GENi
Now, I still believe a GENi'd, Last.fm'd and especially geosensitive Twine would be awesomeness.
1) Twine
2) Last.fm
3) LinkedIn
...
4) GENi
Now, I still believe a GENi'd, Last.fm'd and especially geosensitive Twine would be awesomeness.
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kcxd
4 months ago
Darn...forgot LinkedIn, which is pretty significant from a business networking point of view.
I'm a relatively new Twinerian, but I have noticed that since I got into Twine all of the other social networking sites that I frequent have become significantly less appealing. Twine is just so much more relevant and interesting...which is really kudos to Nova and crew for a job well done!
I'm a relatively new Twinerian, but I have noticed that since I got into Twine all of the other social networking sites that I frequent have become significantly less appealing. Twine is just so much more relevant and interesting...which is really kudos to Nova and crew for a job well done!
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ben
4 months ago
Twine first and foremost, then I suppose Twitter. To be honest, like others have commented here Twine kind of makes the others a bit redundant. I have accounts with Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, Del.icio.us, digg, and a whole host of others but very rarely use them other to touch in and out once a week. Google's Lively looks an interesting prospect but it remains to be seen how popular (and scalable) it will become!
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Bent Rasmussen
4 months ago
It's a toy, dude. It may evolve beyond that, but right now....
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ben
4 months ago
Agree to some extent, they all said that about SL up until a few years ago though. My problem with it is it doesn't even work on a Mac...Come on XP and Vista only!
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Bent Rasmussen
4 months ago
To be honest I also see Second Life as a toy - but less so. It gives a much better experience in my oppinion - but even then, it's much too limited in how it works compared to say, MMOG games.
Neither are mature, but I definitely see Second Life as much much more mature. The Lively interface is fun for 5 min - but for a modern day 3D interface it's hopelessly limited. Being able to "dress up" doesn't count.
Neither are mature, but I definitely see Second Life as much much more mature. The Lively interface is fun for 5 min - but for a modern day 3D interface it's hopelessly limited. Being able to "dress up" doesn't count.
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John Goodwin
4 months ago
I think Twine is great for both work and general interests but I don't find it makes other social networking sites redundant...yet. I still find facebook, and to a lesser extent myspace, useful in keeping up to date with friend's activities. I also find that facebook, myspace and last.fm are good at letter me know when my favourite bands are touring or releasing new material. As Twine gets opened to the public it will be interesting to see if ever replaces any of that. We definitely need more music Twines IMHO :)
Basically I find that Twine has set the bar high for social bookmarking and interest sharing sites, but for me it's just too different from facebook to ever replace that [1].
[1] and in many ways that's a good thing - god forbid the day we ever get to have virtual food fights [2] on Twine :)
[2] or any other similar facebook nonsense
Basically I find that Twine has set the bar high for social bookmarking and interest sharing sites, but for me it's just too different from facebook to ever replace that [1].
[1] and in many ways that's a good thing - god forbid the day we ever get to have virtual food fights [2] on Twine :)
[2] or any other similar facebook nonsense
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Shal
4 months ago
+1 ... Just think of privacy policy and flexibility on Facebook!
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rpfiii
4 months ago
Hey shal--is it just me, or has your bug grown out of the larva stage?
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Jack D. Logan
4 months ago
The bug that morphed ...
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Bent Rasmussen
4 months ago
I think the first one was probably an animated gif of an ant going around in a an 8-loop, ad infinitum. But since animated gifs aren't animated in avatars, shaI got bored with it.
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David Dingley
4 months ago
LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo, lastfm (a lot) Twine - very occasionally del.icio.us and digg
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Irma Vermaat
4 months ago
You can find a list on my blog. I've been using StumbleUpon since 2003.
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facyla
4 months ago
daily : del.icio.us, twine, netvibes, google groups, forums and wikis
occasionally : FB, linkedin, viadeo, friendfeed, lastfm, dailymotion,...
occasionally : FB, linkedin, viadeo, friendfeed, lastfm, dailymotion,...
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Giorgio Bertini
4 months ago
For a large action-learning community, with plenty of conversations, self-organizing, peer-to-peer coaching, joint projects, etc, one platform is not enough. We are working with a flexible cloud: 1. Social browser, Flock 2 Beta; 2. Learning, Twine; 3. Basic Platform, Google App (Extended, + blog, group, youtube, picassa, reader, alerts, etc); 4. Social, Facebook; 5. Others, for online brainstorming, project management, presentations, phoning, meetings, diagrams, etc. Testing tools is an action-research and learning project, useful and motivating for the community.
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Yihong Ding
4 months ago
I use most of them regularly. But I can still live even if most of them shut down tomorrow. A good thing of Web 2.0 is that it provides people so many opportunities that you do not have to bind yourself to any single one of them, no matter how much you love it.
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Pieter J.C. van Everdingen
4 months ago
Basically I would like to use ONE social network that would be an optimized and personalized layer on top of several other databases and applications. Just one interface for personal knowledge and activity management, really smart that works with very strong filters in a way that it only highlights the things that are of real importance to me (business and pleasure). Today I use LinkedIn, Plaxo, Naymz, The Industry Standard, Twine, YouTube, etc., some having considerable overlap, which means that some/most of them must phase out at a certain point in time.
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Ranee Soundara
4 months ago
hmm... this is tough as I use many, but am a regular user of few.
1.) Facebook
2.) LinkedIn
3.) YouTube
4.) Twine (just started, I'm a noob!)
5. Wikipedia
I used to be a regular Twitter until it died on me too many times. Such a shame, I had faith in them before their widget started causing performance problems on my blog... no joke.
1.) Facebook
2.) LinkedIn
3.) YouTube
4.) Twine (just started, I'm a noob!)
5. Wikipedia
I used to be a regular Twitter until it died on me too many times. Such a shame, I had faith in them before their widget started causing performance problems on my blog... no joke.
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Rave.of Chesterfield
3 months ago
I use delicious , stumbleupon fawiki and netvouz.
Dont know if you count them as social networks, stumble and delicious can be categorised as "social bookmarking" and all of them have "social" functions (in the meaning you share bookmarks and tags with other people). The "social part" is mostly in the sharing and findning of others collections of bookmarks. When it comes to communicate with people on the net, i do that mostly through old theese old fashioned web1.0 objects called "forums"
Delicious is for fast "bulk" bookmarking, often I use the tag-suggestions, and dont care so much about the structure of my tags. I dont use the network function, neither I Use delicious it for searching information , I have tried that but I thinks its is too much "noice" and spam nowadays . Delicious also have poor functionality when it comes to edit tags and URLs. They feel almost undeveloped. The "tag bundles" is no more than containers, and you can only edit one bookmark at a time, which make it hard to handle 100 imported bookmarks named ()/(/)(/()/)(/)(...But delicious tag suggestion is good.
Stumbleupon is for its great capacity to let me fint interesting links fitted to my interests, for saving pictures and reflections on findnings on the net in a sort of tumble-blog, I also use stumble to send links and messages to a few people (1-3). I really like delicious, it have an intuitive interface that fits well into the "surfing", and the quality of your findnings is high. I also like the hybrid between the stumbling of new links, messaging and blogging, it works very well! The only bad thing about stumble is that there is no options for saving private linka, and it also lacks functionality when you want to search and organize your "stumbled" bookmarks, I think if they improve this part, stumble could be the ultimate social webservice!
Netvouz is my private, "serious" bookmarking. It has "social" functions in the sense that you could make your links public, and feed others tags, and see how many people saved a URL - but its main focus is its excellent editing and sorting functions. The interface is fast and intuitive, but also a lot of options - you can sort bookmarks after date, after your reviews (you can , if you want, give each link a review with stars, and also mark "not good" urls!) - and best of all - you can use both tags Tags and Folders. This is a excellent to have the option for both searching in tags or browse the collection.
Netvouz also warns you about duplicates, and links that is dead. You can also stick some links with high "actuality" in tree rows on the top of the first page wich i find very helpful. The functions for batch-editing URLs and Tags is also great - delicious functionality is very poor in a comparison. So i recommend this!
Faviki is pretty new for me and I cant really tell if I like it or not, but something makes me stay. I really like the standardized wikitagging, but the interface is a bit clumsy. By some reason I dont know I mostly use became to use it mainly for saving links about "technical" stuff, like how to use textpattern, different markuplanguages, wordpress tweaking and so on..I found that it fits theese categories
Dont know if you count them as social networks, stumble and delicious can be categorised as "social bookmarking" and all of them have "social" functions (in the meaning you share bookmarks and tags with other people). The "social part" is mostly in the sharing and findning of others collections of bookmarks. When it comes to communicate with people on the net, i do that mostly through old theese old fashioned web1.0 objects called "forums"
Delicious is for fast "bulk" bookmarking, often I use the tag-suggestions, and dont care so much about the structure of my tags. I dont use the network function, neither I Use delicious it for searching information , I have tried that but I thinks its is too much "noice" and spam nowadays . Delicious also have poor functionality when it comes to edit tags and URLs. They feel almost undeveloped. The "tag bundles" is no more than containers, and you can only edit one bookmark at a time, which make it hard to handle 100 imported bookmarks named ()/(/)(/()/)(/)(...But delicious tag suggestion is good.
Stumbleupon is for its great capacity to let me fint interesting links fitted to my interests, for saving pictures and reflections on findnings on the net in a sort of tumble-blog, I also use stumble to send links and messages to a few people (1-3). I really like delicious, it have an intuitive interface that fits well into the "surfing", and the quality of your findnings is high. I also like the hybrid between the stumbling of new links, messaging and blogging, it works very well! The only bad thing about stumble is that there is no options for saving private linka, and it also lacks functionality when you want to search and organize your "stumbled" bookmarks, I think if they improve this part, stumble could be the ultimate social webservice!
Netvouz is my private, "serious" bookmarking. It has "social" functions in the sense that you could make your links public, and feed others tags, and see how many people saved a URL - but its main focus is its excellent editing and sorting functions. The interface is fast and intuitive, but also a lot of options - you can sort bookmarks after date, after your reviews (you can , if you want, give each link a review with stars, and also mark "not good" urls!) - and best of all - you can use both tags Tags and Folders. This is a excellent to have the option for both searching in tags or browse the collection.
Netvouz also warns you about duplicates, and links that is dead. You can also stick some links with high "actuality" in tree rows on the top of the first page wich i find very helpful. The functions for batch-editing URLs and Tags is also great - delicious functionality is very poor in a comparison. So i recommend this!
Faviki is pretty new for me and I cant really tell if I like it or not, but something makes me stay. I really like the standardized wikitagging, but the interface is a bit clumsy. By some reason I dont know I mostly use became to use it mainly for saving links about "technical" stuff, like how to use textpattern, different markuplanguages, wordpress tweaking and so on..I found that it fits theese categories
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Not really sure what the point of friendfeed is, but I do have an account there I just don't know anyone else who uses it so it's kind lonely there ;)