Social networks are the future Jul13 '07
The last few months for me have been all about pursuing social networks and aggregated technologies as a means to escape traditional communication and feedback mechanisms.
I discussed:
- Twitter: The Universal Blog.
- Email being stretched too thin.
- Blog comments don't serve a purpose.
- Feeds as content.
- Merging content.
- SMS integration.
The push we're starting to see on the web is less blog, less email, and more socnet (social network), SMS, RSS. Twitter, Tumblr, Pownce, Jaiku, Ning, Gleamd - we're adapting to a world of micro-blogging, with centralized portals where members actively feed off each other, using quick bursts of content, and fast message distribution.
Adapting to this new world can bring many benefits:
- New friends with similar interests.
- Ability to communicate at a new level with customers, building more flexible and trusting relationships.
- Influence users to consider a product or service.
- Instantly promote or market your own ideas to a wide, distributed audience.
- Become more informed and involved on a chosen topic or field.
Blogs, email, and traditional forms of communication are becoming less effective and less noticeable.
Distributed web presence
Instead of having one web site containing all of your information, individuals and companies are stretching their presence all over the web, in order to put content where it's more visible to the audience being targeted.
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