What interests me about socialmedian is the filtering. In my post about the conversational Web, I disagreed with Jeremiah Owyang, who suggested, information on the social web needs to be sorted around people, not content My thinking: Jeremiah is a smart and interesting guy. I follow him on Twitter and FriendFeed, but I’m not really interested in what he ate for breakfast (not that he necessarily posts that sort of thing). That said, when he writes about the social web, I want to know about it. socialmedian lets me do just that. I can follow everything Jeremiah posts, or just what is relevant to me. This could become a very popular feature as the noise online grows and it becomes harder to sift through all of it to find what you want. - Christian Anderson

Oh, geez, socialmedian. - Robert Scoble

Not sure about the snips, clips digg thing? - Andrew Smith

http://www.socialmedian.com/christi... - Christian Anderson

Still very beta. When not logged in, most links point to the registration screen (including all external links, as far as I can tell). Can't tell if functionality is any more than a subset of FF. - Ozan Onay

Prior coverage: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Louis Gray

My page with 3 months' activity: http://www.socialmedian.com/louisgr... - Louis Gray

My activity for roughly 3 months too: http://www.socialmedian.com/christi... - Christian Anderson

Social Median doesn't seem too different to me from Twine. Essentially you form conversation networks and clip articles, which based on that data, algorithmically figures out what news you like and don't like. But it's good to see that the next wave of innovation is in personalized social news aggregators... Now we just have to see who emerges from the pack as the frontrunner. - Jonathan Wong

It looks nice and it's easy to create a profile and join relevant networks, although most of the active ones seem to be social networking-related at the moment. Seems similar to Twine in that it's clustering content around topic-based networks. I'd probably use it to find and share interesting content on Friendfeed and other blogs. But how many niches are available for social news sharing sites like this? - David Young from NoiseRiver

Interesting, but when you click on any link it always sends you to the login/registration page; and this can be a turn off…. - Joao

And here's mine: http://www.socialmedian.com/nishith... - Nishith Shah

So far socialmedian has proven valuable to me. I've been turned on to stories I would have otherwise missed. Similarly, I seem more valuable on sm than here on ff. My own shares on sm have been clipped more than any of my shares on ff have been liked. A lot more. So that in itself encourages me to use it more. There aren't many conversations on sm that I can see, however, which is why I use ff, as well, despite often feeling like I'm wasting my time. - Rick Powell

@Rick. I realize I'm digressing from the topic, but I've found that I get more Likes and Comments on FF if I share stuff to rooms, than just to my feed. I guess because rooms are focused around specific topics and they don't have as fast a turnover as individual feeds. Once you're subscribed to 20+ people, especially power users, your Friendfeed has a ridiculously fast turnover, meaning you may not see a share unless you use it constantly. - David Young

hey all. reading the posts and wanted to reply about the registration requirements. Truth is we wish we were able to enable users to do more without registering but just weren't able to get that done in time for beta and didn't want to hold back public beta because of it. Will improve over time. - Jason Goldberg

I share racier, queer-er stuff to one of my rooms, and film stuff to my new Cineaste room. But no comments or likes. Passive readers? - Rick Powell

looks interesting, did a little blog post - http://korta.nu/9ed5 - Tomas Nihlen from Alert Thingy

here is me on socialmedian - http://www.socialmedian.com/tomasni... - Tomas Nihlen from Alert Thingy