http://leftthebox.com/archive/the-evolution-of-social-media/ Social Media Strategy and Internet Marketing Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:38:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://leftthebox.com/archive/the-evolution-of-social-media/#comment-201 Samir Balwani Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:34:21 +0000 http://leftthebox.com/?p=284#comment-201 I agree with that, I think FriendFeed was trying to be a one stop place for all Social Media, and now you have Ping.fm. The problem with these sites is that when you go to them you lose out on a lot of things the original sites offer, for example Plurk's timeline, digg's recommendation engine. I agree with that, I think FriendFeed was trying to be a one stop place for all Social Media, and now you have Ping.fm. The problem with these sites is that when you go to them you lose out on a lot of things the original sites offer, for example Plurk’s timeline, digg’s recommendation engine.

]]> http://leftthebox.com/archive/the-evolution-of-social-media/#comment-200 Steve Nimmons Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:56:57 +0000 http://leftthebox.com/?p=284#comment-200 I view the Social Media platform explosion as lots of useful spokes, great functionality - some niche, some with larger granularity. I struggle to get a handle on what is happening across all of those spokes and I would like to see a gravitational pull towards a hub. What I would love today is a portal that I could configure with portlets for all of my Web2 presences and dashboards so I could track friends activity, and maybe start to unify some of my disparate social networks. I find Flock interesting in this regard, and hope we will see some effort go into the 'glue' to bind these platforms together instead of more and more granularity and new offerings... I view the Social Media platform explosion as lots of useful spokes, great functionality - some niche, some with larger granularity. I struggle to get a handle on what is happening across all of those spokes and I would like to see a gravitational pull towards a hub. What I would love today is a portal that I could configure with portlets for all of my Web2 presences and dashboards so I could track friends activity, and maybe start to unify some of my disparate social networks. I find Flock interesting in this regard, and hope we will see some effort go into the ‘glue’ to bind these platforms together instead of more and more granularity and new offerings…

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