My Thoughts On Social Media

This idea was inspired from this post by J. Phil of scribkin.com. The idea is simple, and I think will be very rewarding.
When I first joined FreindFeed in February, it was easy to maintain a normal balance of my friends and their activities. This was easy because my number of subscriptions was low. Five months [...]

One of my core responsibilities as a system admin is preventing credit card fraud on our network. I’m basically the primary gatekeeper who determines the validity and legitimacy of all new online orders. With the large amount of business we do on a daily basis, it’s impossible to completely eliminate credit card fraud. Even with [...]

Allen Stern recently posted on his blog, “Do You Compensate Content Creators?”
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Stern is referring to actively clicking advertisements to show support for the author. He has a noble argument. I occasionally will click a banner ad, but not as often I should be doing. Being a webmaster for so many years, has lead me to [...]

Michael Harris recently posted on his blog, “Should I unsubscribe from people who don’t follow me back?”
Felix, a member on FriendFeed, recently released a handy little FriendFeed script called FriendVenn.
The script tells you 3 important things:

People who you subscribe to, and people who do not reciprocate.
People who subscribe to you and who reciprocate.
People who [...]

Toluu is a one stop social supermarket for discovery of new rss feeds. How Toluu works is quite simple. Once registered, you will import your current OPML file into the system. The service will then search for other users with interests similar to yours. This is almost like a dating service, and will display [...]

The criteria for staying active in social media can be defined and interpreted in many different ways. This leads me to the foundation first, contribution. The frequency at which we contribute, dictates the level of our activity and inactivity in social media.Measuring an individuals level of activeness can be based on the mechanisms we use [...]

I wrote a post a little over a week ago titled “The ticking time bomb awaiting Friendfeed.”  I talked about how Friendfeed will become a spammer’s new tool, more specifically on how they could monetize on their efforts using rooms on Friendfeed. Spam on social networking sites and applications is nothing new, it just comes [...]

Friendfeed has a lot of great rooms pertaining to social media. This post highlights 30 non tech related rooms that are worth checking out.
Ask a Question
1) Answer Feed
Topics: Question the trustworthy FriendFeed community with your questions/problems and get some answers in this room.
Room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/answerfeed
Member count: 207

Books
1) Book Groups
Topics: Discussions of great books and [...]

Last night I blogged about 10 people you should follow on Friendfeed. This morning when I awoke and checked my email, I was pleasantly surprised. My inbox was flooded with 70+ new subscribers. 70+ new editors, who for the most part, (I) think share a majority of the same interests as I do.  As you [...]