Goldie Katsu

Seesmic has a natural hype cycle because of the celebrity behind it and the celebrity that installed it (it's a seriously who-you-know-connecton-coup)-- but that's not what I'm talking about here. It's interesting to note where circles and tribes move-- the 'my friends are there'. Part of this could apply to Rejaw too. It's not about whether or not the service has some differentiated feature/benefit, it's about where it lands on our personal timelines. Has anyone experienced this with Seesmic or others? - Eric Rice

I'd also like to note how many services FORCE social first, and groups second (if at all). When I refer to anti-social media, I'm really referring to 'discrete' media, not private (or media = networking, whatever). I'm loving things that give me the ability to have 'small social' because of the various theories like Dunbar's number and such. Community evolves into society, and those are two different things entirely. - Eric Rice

i don't know Eric, there's still a core group of people (many of us from the early days) who interact with each other on a regular basis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/m... - Chris Cavs

Yeah older than that. Actually, those pictured that I met there--- we've moved together into other mediums and spaces AND maintain a higher level of relationship-- which is a hard thing to do when everyone is look at me-me-me--- how do you stand out (so to speak)? Note: I do think video is one of the most powerful mediums for connections and human interaction. - Eric Rice

BTW, by 'older than that' I meant, to me, that group is second gen... not sure what generation we're on now... at least 5 or 6. - Eric Rice

well, *I* was there in November. I do remember those folks, and yeah, most of them have moved on. I'm actually a little bummed about that. But I've made some great relationships with those people in the picture. So yeah, video is a very powerful communication medium. I'm still not sure why you don't post though? There are more people now, so you have to be active to get noticed. AND...there are different times during the day that are more active than others, with different people engaging. - Chris Cavs

Maybe there's just certain people too arrogant, too needy, and too self-important--I'm wholeheartedly including myself here--to be "just another member" of a gigantic group and who need to be always part of a select few. I'm not good with crowds... - Seth Eagelfeld

well, i miss you there. not that i'm there often with my webcam issues, but i got a new webcam today, a 2nd wind and I pop up twhirl to see what's going on and it's--once again--a whole lot of nothing. there's too many cliques there and since i don't belong to one, it's back to me observing like back in april. - Faboo Mama

Chris: maybe because it's the same social effect of going to a new club making new friends and starting over from scratch? (well almost)... the one thing I dont think any web 2.0 folks look at is the issue of *social* scalability. Servers and code = easy. Scale socially? That's waaay different. - Eric Rice

Seth: I will be straight up honest and say that there are some people there who I just couldn't effing STAND to see-- not that they had anything to do with me drifting (maybe they did, heh) but yeah, that's a huge part of it. Maybe there's this 'do i want to become that barfly' in any social service? - Eric Rice

aww <3 faboo although interesting we interact more here and we're both from different 'generations' so to speak. God I love these weird-assed scientific social things. This is why we need sociocyberneticists and sociologists in social media, not more Twitter fanboys lol. :) - Eric Rice

do i count as first generation? :o) ...i feel bad. i dropped off too. more because of work and the fact that i'm still waiting for them to roll out group functions. but i am thankful to have met some really nice people when i was actively using it. hopefully when they roll out groups, there can be a reunion. :D - Christine Lu

I was just checking for group functions and GOOD GRIEF on your avatar Christine <3 - Eric Rice

Eric, the scalability issue is definitely a problem. But I'd certainly welcome you back! it's funny, because I started in November, then in January, I fell off until April after PodcampNYC. Now i'm on there again, and there have been at least 2 "generations" since then. Crazy. - Chris Cavs

feel ya eric - moved on awhile ago but i do that a lot, i try everything and only stick f/t w/ a few - it's a time mgmt & balanced life sort of thing for me, nothing against the service or the people - its all my fault or seth's maybe ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

glemak makes a good point. There are just too many socnets now. Some will fall through the cracks in our lives. It happens. I'm on both Seesmic and Phreadz, and Phreadz has kind of fallen through for me. Twitter & Plurk are my main microblog sites, while rejaw, pownce, jaiku, and identi.ca all fell through. - Chris Cavs

Yeah I get evangelized on Rejaw a lot and it's like come on, enough. They might have better features, but it falls into the trap of selling features, not benefits-- and there's high barrier to switching. And even tho there's differentiators, it's not different enough to prevent it from being Yet Another Twitter Clone. (this was kinda off topic, but had to address Rejaw honestly for a moment. (It's social scalability sucks) - Eric Rice

interesting about phreadz, chris. after a lot of berating (peer pressure me?) i got an account. it's been two weeks and i just recorded a video profile today. the thing is that, i look at the users and it's just another clique of people. pretty much the same people who ignored me on seesmic. do i need that? - Faboo Mama

Eric does not need business cards - just Google the man! - Matt Hartley

oh man, use dropcard or something! - Faboo Mama

i normally use moo.com but not on this short notice...i should also ping the tokyo crew about their thoughts since the card thing is SO part of biz culture. - Eric Rice

Someone mentioned awhile ago to hook up a Nintendo DS and pictochat your info to them :P You could do the same for a PSP (I think it was Alexander Williams who said it). I want that personally. - Candace Holly

Honestly, I don't understand this card thing. I was beaming people with palm pilots 8 years ago. In fact, it was considered RUDE to have business cards when I went to infrastructure conferences. - Christine Cavalier

@Christine, i work in telecommunications and i've run into situations where handing a biz card is a huge faux pas. beam it or forget it is what i've been told. - Faboo Mama

Of course, how do we know what can be beamed or not, what's compatible or not. I wouldn't even know how to transfer between a treo and iphone or blackberry and nokia... and i'm like from the FUTURE n shit. :) - Eric Rice

so... years ago Palm had the biz card beaming feature. I remember loving it. Where did it go? How did it fall out? - Michael Hussein Markman via twhirl

its bluetooth, don't the smurfs in our phone just make it work. i used to have a PPC6700 and now i have an instinct. I've never had a problem beaming anyone anything, except when I was in vegas and my phone would not pick up or receive data from the iphone user standing next to me. that was the only time in the past 5 years that's happened.. - Faboo Mama

i think the other point i'm making is that i can't even recall having run across the need to do this, much less, even know *how* to - Eric Rice

I know this doesn't help you for next week, but if it is an important contact, in the future perhaps use a branded flash drive w/ your contact info and sample of work? There are a few sites like this out there: http://www.usb-flashdrive.com/... - tagami

I ride a Raleigh Detour 3.0. 21-Speed Urban Cruiser. That said, I'm thinking about picking up a nice schwinn for when I want to ride like the wind. Update Linkage: http://www.raleighusa.com/bike... - Jason Toney

Still old school steel ('89) Bottecchia with Campy. Likely upgrading as Christmas present to myself. - AJ Kohn

I ride a Gary Fisher Mamba. Black/white/yellow. I think it's heavy and the wheels are smaller in diameter than, like, everyone else's bike that I've seen. So I'm working harder than many riding it on the pavement, but since I've put some money into it, I'm loathe to ditch it. - Erica Mauter

Bianchi Strada, mountain-bike handlebars, Shimano brakes. - George Kelly

I have a Kona Dew http://www.konaworld.com/bikes... - Erica Baker

Nice, nice; lovin' a view of everyone's rides. What type of mileage are you putting in? My regular commute on my fixed-gear is 7-10 miles round trip depending on my routes, and I usually get an additional 10-15mi rides in with some other cats late nights. - Do You KNOW Clarence?