Connecting Socially or with the Smartie Smart Smartsters

You have social media (MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, LinkedIn) and then you have social media aggregators (Profilelinker, Spokeo, MyBlogLog). Aggregators are websites give you one place to log on and perform varying applications (send email, upload/share pictures, grab statistics and view your different identities on MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. (some are more comprehensive in the sites they support). Comprehensiveness will be key in the future (Web 3.0) because the web will be a database not to be messed with (yada yada yada). For those who are time-crunched, you must at least check out Facebook and Profilelinker -- so you won’t be in the dark.

The Smartie Smart Smartsters who are developing Web 3.0 applications are trying to build comprehensiveness. Take Twine, they are coming out with a kind of Wiki-Database-Social Networking tool that can be used privately and publicly. Companies, departments, groups, teams and developers currently use Wiki’s (a web page that is a clearing house for information or a project that is updated using Wiki, a collaborative website that is easily edited). Companies use databases for customer service, sales, marketing. People use databases for address books and more detailed information on topics. Social Networking websites and group organizing sites (eg. Meetups) bring people together publicly and privately to discuss information that is important to that group. From what I understand, Twine will be a place I can:

- pull a group of friends together to research, discuss what to do for our Girl’s Weekend Away,

- rally non-profit groups and subgroups to work on fundraisers

- pull my product delivery team together at work

- pull company-wide information together so as not to have any rogue websites.

Like Facebook, Twine shows the feed to the group of “friends/coworkers/your public” as to what is being done by whom. For those who are time-crunched, research social media monitoring tools, semantic web and Twine.