For real! I am still constantly amazed at the width and breadth of the new frontiers that are being explored (and exploited) in Internet-aided social networking. Being the übergeek, I tend to get totally lost in what I term as link digression, the downward spiral of looking at references to other neat stuff found while looking for neat stuff. Strange way to express it, I know, but totally fits the activity.
You may have noticed a stub page here on the web site to try and connect the dots in my personal social network. It is hardly started because I find myself going deeper and deeper in the available tools. One site I made the mistake of going to is Mashable, self-termed as the #1 Social Networking and Social Media News Blog. I call it a place to get lost for hours, especially the get-an-invite section, to get an invitation to a newly released beta platform.
While it does provide for hours of entertainment, I do find that some of the social whatevers are simply repeats or wannabees or sad imitations. Also, I am leery at some of their intent in the area of th protection of your personal data. I make it a point to check the domain registration as well. Found one that looked very interesting, a just in time RSS aggregation tool that provides alerts via IM (yes, yet another one of those). The name sounded strange, foreign... did a quick whois and found that the owner and the hosting is located in China. Crossed that one off the list.
So as the adventure continues, I will get around to adding some notes and links and general impressions of these wide-ranging tools, both on the blog and in the Social section of the web site. Oh, and of note, I happened across the Webware 100 awards... like I needed another list of applications to look through...
You may have noticed a stub page here on the web site to try and connect the dots in my personal social network. It is hardly started because I find myself going deeper and deeper in the available tools. One site I made the mistake of going to is Mashable, self-termed as the #1 Social Networking and Social Media News Blog. I call it a place to get lost for hours, especially the get-an-invite section, to get an invitation to a newly released beta platform.
While it does provide for hours of entertainment, I do find that some of the social whatevers are simply repeats or wannabees or sad imitations. Also, I am leery at some of their intent in the area of th protection of your personal data. I make it a point to check the domain registration as well. Found one that looked very interesting, a just in time RSS aggregation tool that provides alerts via IM (yes, yet another one of those). The name sounded strange, foreign... did a quick whois and found that the owner and the hosting is located in China. Crossed that one off the list.
So as the adventure continues, I will get around to adding some notes and links and general impressions of these wide-ranging tools, both on the blog and in the Social section of the web site. Oh, and of note, I happened across the Webware 100 awards... like I needed another list of applications to look through...
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