see the live graph http://siteanalytics.compete.com/identi... - Jeremiah Owyang

Me too. Pretty slick. I like what they've done with the social graph api. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

It appears to be a combination of Digg, Friendfeed, and a Feedreader - Jeremiah Owyang

I like it! It could really take off! - Richard Kannegieser from twhirl

The only thing I don't like so far is how they let anyone create and add NEW news topics. Just like Facebook Groups and Friendfeed Rooms, over time, we're likely to see a large number of similar topics crop up, which makes it harder to find the real "meat". Would be slick if as you type a new News Topic, they recommended using an existing or similar one instead. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

How funny, the default picture is John McCain, does that make folks want to change it? - Jeremiah Owyang

Richard, there are a lot of steps to get up and running --huge barriers for the normal user - Jeremiah Owyang

Mine was Julia Roberts :P - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Mine was Tom Cruise! At least someone thinks I look like Tom Cruise! - Rahul Das

My default was George Bush! - Richard Kannegieser

Anyone know if there is a way to mod comments and/or block users? I got a rather nasty comment on one of my posts. http://www.socialmedian.com/story... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

http://www.socialmedian.com/story... ugh. ok, we need to work on moderation sooner than expected. - Jason Goldberg

http://www.socialmedian.com/louisgr... -- for how a profile can look with months of activity. - Louis Gray

The UI of Social Media has a lot of 'surprises' and learning. Not that intuitive. - Jeremiah Owyang

I am in for about three months and still not really convinced. friendfeed seems to be much easier to work with. Example: On friendfeed every external link takes you one click only to get there while on socialmedian it takes you two. - Matthias Schwenk

Matthias, I'm experimenting as well, in the end, I'll only choose one. - Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah -- we agree. we have spent very little time on UI. been much more focused on features. we'll clean it up soon for sure. Matthias: will look at your comment here too. thanks. - Jason Goldberg

my default pic was Bill Clinton! - andy brudtkuhl

Thanks Jason, great of you to come by. That means a lot to know you're listening and responding. - Jeremiah Owyang

Double thanks to Jason for cleaning up a rather nasty comment from a nastier handle. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

It looks so confusing to me. I don't like it - Bartek Ciszkowski

Jeremiah: of course. I'm a huge FF fan. - Jason Goldberg

i´m loving it but now i have no idea where to discuss stuff - here or there or here or there or maybe here? *argh* - Dieter Schwarz

Dieter, I'm sticking to FF for now - Jeremiah Owyang

I'll use both for awhile. I like FF better at this point. But keep up the good work @Jason I am sticking in there. I see a use for both - andy brudtkuhl

I don't think it's an either or decision. I always thought we competed more with your RSS reader or favorite news sites than with FF. What's the thinking here? - Jason Goldberg

@Jason - I agree... not really a FriendFeed competitor - more of an RSS reader competitor - andy brudtkuhl