"As participation marketing continues to gain traction as the most effective way to market a website, niche social networks are emerging as a crucial part of that strategy. While Facebook and Twitter can play an integral part in social media campaigns, they don’t always have the best targeted users and groups. Whereas, niche social networks, like cork’d and Social Workout, provide highly targeted communities for marketers. Although we spent a great deal of time finding and reviewing each niche social network, we know we probably missed some. If we’re missing a niche social network that you think belongs on this list, email Lee at lee@raventools.com and we’ll check it out. Niche Social Networks * Alcohol * Animals * Animation * Art & Design Updated * Attorneys * Coffee * Comics * Crafting * DIY * Exercise * Environmental * Families * Financial Updated * Food * Gaming * Health Related * Marriage * Movies * Music Updated * Paranormal * Photography * Reading / Books * Restaurant Industry...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
from Bookmarklet
sıkış tıkış olmayan biryer olursa gelirim, baykuşu seviyorum ama içinde hareket edemiyorum
- denizoktar
Geniş bir yer secmeye çalışacağız, bu gece mekan secimi tamamlanmış olacak :) Deniz yorum için sagol, dikkate alırım.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
from iPhone
beni birisi merkezi bir yerden alip goturecek olursa veya bildigim bir yer olursa arama stressine girmicek olursam gelirim. =p
- Özgür D. Cyric
Mekan zaman kesinleşsin ,ayarlayabilirsem gelirim..
- acelya akpinar
Yarın sabah netleşmiş olur her şey, mekan olarak fazla gurultu çıkarmayan ne coknsalas ne de çok uçuk olmayan bir yer sececeğiz. Kisi sayısı şimdiden 30a dayandı gibi, biraz büyük olması ve mümkünse ferah bir yer olması tercihimiz olacak.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
from iPhone
Life Roof ,Taksim İstiklal cad. İmam Adnan Sk. No:10/5 Taksim (Mangonun Karşı Sokağı,Melek Bar yanı,Asansörle 5.Kat da MADONNA "CELEBRATION"ALBÜMÜ TANITIM PARTİSİ varmış :) oldiesparty@gmail.com a mail atanlara davetiye varmış. Hep beraber oaraya mı gitsek? (Mekanı hiç bilmiyorum ama ...)
- sunipeyk
Ben bunu daha önce Latemind diye vaftiz etmiştim. Bu da olmuş...
- Cem ARGUN
Ben de "Nightmind" olmalı demiştim Cem, de tabi tee ne zaman sonda dedim, bi anlamı yoktu, Burak olayı netleştirmişti, haybeden gazel oldu benimki :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
I know... I totally agree! If I was Penny, I'd stay in there too :) I went to the doc yesterday, and he goes "wow, you're not measuring big, but you are really full of baby!" haha... guess she's going to be on the larger side!
- Georgia Diehl
Savor this time -- life will never be the same after she is born. I know I was impatient for my son to be born (he was 10 days late!), but I'm glad I also made the most of that time with my husband.
- Meredith
Thanks Meredith, I totally agree. I'm mostly bored when he's at work. When he's home, we make sure to spend quality time together, I know how important that is to do as much as possible now.
- Georgia Diehl
And 10 days late, wow! Did you go into labor naturally, or did they end up inducing?
- Georgia Diehl
I went into labor naturally (at 8pm -- probably the worst time to go into labor since you end up losing at least one full night of sleep). I was born 9 days late, so it seems to be a family tradition with the first baby.
- Meredith
Oh gosh, i can imagine you were just so exhausted when it was all over. My mom can't remember if my sister was early or late... I'll have to bug her to pull out the baby book.
- Georgia Diehl
I swear that I commented about the average length of pregnancy on Friendfeed earlier this year, but I can't find it. When Clare was getting antsy, we did some reading, and discovered that the average gestation is more like 41 weeks as opposed to 40, and it tends to be several days longer for first births as opposed to subsequent births. If you reach 41 weeks, your doctor will start...
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- Robert Felty
Thanks Robert! Yeah, no induction for me unless they tell me the baby is at risk...
- Georgia Diehl
Whoops, made an error with 40 and 41 there. Corrected. The average is about 41 weeks 1 day. One thing Clare and I did was go to a movie in a theater. We haven't done that since Spencer was born.
- Robert Felty
Yup, that's what I had heard as well from my Bradley class Robert. Looks like I could be waiting for a few more weeks!
- Georgia Diehl
If you're late, they will have you come in for ultrasounds and these tests where they monitor the baby's heartbeat. If they're at all concerned with the results, they'll ask you to induce. But if the results are fine, it's worth waiting for it to happen naturally (in spite of how impatient you will feel by then).
- Meredith
"The Ring Hitchcock's first film for a studio that had some money to spend, The Ring dials up the faintly tongue-in-cheek Expressionist razzle-dazzle of The Lodger applied seriously to a melodrama set in the world of professional boxing. Surpassing the melodramas of his role model Cecil B. DeMille, the young genius keeps the fire lit under his very grown-up sexual triangle in one imaginative sequence after another: a working-class fair filmed documentary-style, boxing matches that are individual gems of narrative construction, a wild party where the camera gets drunk, a wedding reception invaded by carnival folk, and, of course, boxing rings, gold rings and champagne bubbles spun out of the title. One reviewer called it "the most magnificent British film ever made." Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 16mm, 1927, 72 min. Tickets - $10"
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
edythe, NO YOU CANNOT COME WITHIN TWENTY FEET OF THE CINEMA WHILE I AM THERE. Of course you can come, silly! :p And @thequark, "M" is fantastic. I should rewatch that one of these days.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
bir de yukarıyı okumanın zor geldiği, arkada duranları zorlayıp bakana benzetmeye çalışmam, artık zencide de pes demem yaşanmış gerçektir :D
- Gülser Yücekara
Birkaç gün içinde babam araba almayı düşünüyor. ötv indirimi bitiyor muymuş neymiş birkaç güne kadar.. 25.000 TL civarında bir miktar.. hangi marka/modeli önerirsiniz ? biraz genel bir soru oldu ama önerisi olan varsa acilen paylaşabilir mi? teşekkürler...
kia ceed harika ama tabi biraz tuzlu, hyundai i30 da kailtedir aslında, kia ve hyundai aynı fabrikadan çıkıyor zaten...
- Aydın Işık
Kia'yı pek tavsiye etmemişler neden bilmiyorum ama..
- Pelin Hazar
bende düşünüyorum. değiştirmeyi. aklımda citroen nemo var. 26,500 tl
- Muhammet K. (oceangray)
toyota yaris var birazcik fazla butceden ama..
- Ozan Caglargil
yani bu miktarda içimize sinen bir şey bulamazsak en fazla 29.000 TL'ye filan çıkılabilir..
- Pelin Hazar
Ben ÖTV indirimi ile yeni ford fiesta'dan aldım. Eğer o miktarın azda olsa üzerine çıkabiliyorsanız benzinli ve küçük motorlu olanlarından şiddetle tavsiye ederim. Ben çok memnunum...
- Emre Öktem
i30 malzeme kalitesi rahatsız etmezse o paraya alınıcak en iyi araba gibi duruyor.. dolu araba , ama elbette bir VW kalitesi yok. biraz tipi düzgün olsun dersen , markası önemli dersen , fiesta iyidir.
- Doritos değil Panço
Valla memleketim insanı artık neyi nereden (torrent, rs, emule, ares, news vs.) indireceğini zaten biliyor. Amaç bahsi geçsin de hatırlansın :)
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
Dediğiniz çok doğru. Benim gibi RS premium acc. olmayan bir bünyeler ara sıra böyle coşkunlara geliyor : )
- Ugur
ya microsoft'un böyle bir oyunu vardı. Evrim üzerine yapılmış. Siz piskopat bir bilim adamı oluyordunuz. Hayvanları birbirleriyle mutasyona sokarak farklı türler ortaya çıkarıyordunuz. Uçan balina gibi boynuzlu aslan gibi şeyler yapabiliyordunuz. Eski bir oyundu ama yasaklandı diye duymuştum. Bileniniz varmı?
- Melih Güney
evrim üzerine bildiğim SPORE var (EA) ama melez canlılar yaratmak yerine kendin canlı yaratıyorsun.
- Sekiz Adet Fantastic
yok yok spore değil. benim dediğim oyun çok eski.
- Melih Güney
"A married FBI agent who had an affair with a key government witness in the corruption case of ex-Rep. William Jefferson, was also having affairs with female FBI agents and was under internal investigation, according to court and FBI documents. A court document unsealed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. on Monday, revealed that the Office of Professional Responsibility had launched an internal probe as a result of a document prepared by the married FBI agent John Guandolo."
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
from Bookmarklet
"The affair was kept under seal until Monday when Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled against granting the defense a new trial. The defense asked for one partly based on the affair. According to a court document, Mody “rebuffed 2-3 advances by Mr. Guandolo, including one in which she characterized as inappropriately aggressive, but that she later had consensual intercourse with Mr. Guandolo on two occasions in approximately May 2005.”"
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
"It is our utmost pleasure to officially announce on this beautiful Monday, the joining of Kim Campesinos! as our new vocalist and keyboard player (and a whole lot more). As I’m sure most of you are aware, Kim joins the band following Aleks’ departure to return to her studies. In Kim we have a more than worthy successor. We are friends from way, way back, and I hope you’ll make her feel very welcome."
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
from Bookmarklet
Official announcement of Aleks' replacement Kim. There's no really replacing Aleks, but based on these shots and the cute/silly video in the post, Kim's going to be a great addition to the band. Certainly she keeps up the OMGHAWT factor that LC! has going on. ;)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Amit: I have a limited resource of my attention. I push it to places that the most geeks hang out and that has the best chance for future success. FriendFeed has an uncertain future now and it'll be a few more weeks until I know for sure what Facebook is doing with the team.
- Robert Scoble
My question, Robert, if you don't like FF then why are you sending your streams here? I liked you, but not if you keep saying bad things about FF and trying to scare people away from it. Sorry.
- Mol, Time Warping
you could ruin the entire current experience contacts learning etc by worrying about a future that will or won't get here with or without your anxiety
- WarLord
Amit: That was pretty close to what I was thinking.
- Simon Hicks
Molly: FriendFeed is an aggregator and I still show up here every day. But anyone who says they know the future of FriendFeed or hasn't noticed that engagement has gone way down here (especially among geeks) isn't paying attention. That doesn't mean it's not a valuable service, by the way. But it's clear that the market is now Facebook and Twitter so I'm pushing a lot more attention there to hedge my bets. That seems to be smart.
- Robert Scoble
Even if no one is here, the aggregator has great value. Why? Because Twitter search sucks and FriendFeed's search lets me look back a lot further than Twitter search does.
- Robert Scoble
i'm goin' down with the ship! FF4LIFE
- Chris Heath
Even this post demonstrates far lower engagement. A month ago this post would have gotten 150 comments already from people arguing with me.
- Robert Scoble
Face it - we're all addicts and we'll still be on until it's taken from us
- Jesse Stay
so then is the question where did those 150 commenters go?
- WarLord
FF definitely has a place and can do things that Twitter can't - like >140 characters for a start.
- Simon Hicks
1. I ain't adding anyone I interact with to Facebook!!! 2. Twitter sucks for multiple participants interaction.
- Amit Morson
Jesse: I am an addict, but I do need to hang out where the conversation is happening too. This is both my life and my business.
- Robert Scoble
robert, maybe people have given up on arguing with you .. hm?
- Chris Heath
Amit: I agree that FriendFeed still has many advantages, which is why I'm still here.
- Robert Scoble
Chris: not true. You miss that my Saturday night post got 30,000 visits already? The conversation has moved onto other platforms.
- Robert Scoble
yeah, but people on FF have given up arguing with you is what i meant... (in general of course, i know some still do)
- Chris Heath
Robert, I believe the lower engagement is due to it being a weekend.
- Amit Morson
Chris: I'm watching other people's accounts on FriendFeed and it's not just mine that have seen far lower engagement.
- Robert Scoble
i'll agree that engagement (if you want to call it that) has gone down (some) but i'd say it's less than you think - of course FB buying FF will drive away whatever % of the users who are anti-FB - that's something i take as fact, but that % is smaller than you think....
- Chris Heath
I guess I'm goin' down with the ship as well ;-)
- Amit Morson
what i'd really like to see is some hard numbers from the ff-team on user activity since the sale [edit: also do you know when they started live updating the comment edits here? i think i've only noticed it in the last week or so]
- Chris Heath
I guess I just don't have any 'chips' in the social media 'game' so I don't have to be on the bleeding edge. I'm here for the social aspect of FF that has been built, not necessarily the exposure/reach.
- Johnny Worthington
It's funny when you hear that Johnny isn't here to expose himself!
- WorldofHiglet
Johnny, and still you expose yourself more than most ;-p
- Amit Morson
Chris: that was added a couple of months ago. Compete and other services will have data out soon. Keep in mind I've gotten 2,000 new followers since Facebook bought FriendFeed but they definitely aren't coming back very often. Johnny: my whole life I've looked at where early adopters spend their time. We all used to be on Prodigy, for instance, and now aren't anymore. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I hope they keep the FF functionality as separate site or built-in to FB, I'm just starting to discovering this stuff
- Magnus Nystedt
I understand Robert's position 100%. Not even the FF team has a crystal ball. Yet, I still like the tools and search and the people here, so my usage hasn't changed much and probably won't.
- Louis Gray
I think it's the difference between a 'place' and a 'tool'.
- Johnny Worthington
Magnus: it can't be built in. FriendFeed wasn't designed to survive loads of hundreds of millions of people. So if the features here are to be moved into Facebook they will need to be rewritten. I also doubt that FriendFeed will be turned off, but I am looking forward to when we hear exactly what will be done with it.
- Robert Scoble
Gawd... look, just 'That's What She Said' all my comments on this thread...
- Johnny Worthington
Robert, there's a gestation period for friendfeed... the discrepancy between when you join and when you being to 'engage' -- it was brought to my attention tonight in one of leo laporte's entries http://friendfeed.com/leolapo... -- in the comments people wondered why the tool wasn't giving their join date and instead their first post...
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- Chris Heath
Louis: I've cut my usage down from "on FriendFeed every minute of every day" to merely your level. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Chris, what does not having the join date mean? Does it mean that the count starts only from your first interaction?
- Amit Morson
Amit, i believe so... the developer commented in leo's thread
- Chris Heath
In that case it's more of a social interaction tool than an aggregator. But than, everyone who spend time here knows that.
- Amit Morson
Doesn't Facebook owning FriendFeed guarantee it's stay more? (Even the FriendFeed guys stated that it's more guaranteed to stay now)
- Hugh Isaacs II
from iPod
Hugh: yes, but it doesn't guarantee that the team will be left on it to improve it. And no new features will mean that it will become less and less relevant. Market conversations only happen due to new features.
- Robert Scoble
And, anyway, the Facebook iPhone app already shows that Facebook is headed in a good direction and one that will make FriendFeed unneeded within 18 months.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, maybe FB will give them 20% time or something... maybe that's in the deal... lots of maybes... i get your point that we need to know more
- Chris Heath
Chris: I will stay on top of FriendFeed. I have a 48,000 reasons to care about its future! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Simon, interesting leveraging of FF - nice!
- Micah Wittman
Thanks for all the info scoble! u rock!
- Jason Pollock
Allocating attention seems a bit of an odd concept. If something was the best tool, and it was going away in 7 days, it still makes sense to use it for 6 days.
- Christopher Galtenberg
this is sounding like a pitch to save the jobs of the ff team - which i am for. They've done a great job so far.
- Simon Hicks
We all appreciate all the guidance which u graciously share with us... thanks again!
- Jason Pollock
Micah: Thanks. It is a very flexible tool.
- Simon Hicks
Simon, It's not a pitch to save the jobs, It's a pitch to save the service and keep it evolving.
- Amit Morson
Robert, you're great at stirring the pot! Breaking out the popcorn for this episode ;)
- Shane
Christopher: not true. If you are building a media business you need to dedicate your efforts to places that will continue to get distribution. Would you rather take a job at a big TV station that's going out of business in a week or one that will stick around for a few more years?
- Robert Scoble
allocation of attention is merely dealing the the currency of time rather than strictly in monetary transactions as economics so frequently is wrongly limited to examining.
- Nathan Eckenrode
Or, another way to look at it. Let's say that you want to talk with people who are into quilting. You have a choice. One place has 50 quilting fans and keeps losing fans. Another place has 5,000 fans and keeps growing. Where do YOU spend your time?
- Robert Scoble
Chris: Good stuff. See, the ff crowd have done a great job providing a great "home away from home" tool.
- Simon Hicks
Robert, it's true, though by how it seems now, only the Facebook haters (and not all of those) left FF. Most people stay here particularly because they don't see it as an investment like you do.
- Amit Morson
Putting aside FF a moment, it's been interesting to see the (rudimentary) stat of usage of my translation script (http://translatorize.com ) between Facebook and Twitter. To date: Facebook has more activity. Obviously, FB has the big pot of users, but I would have thought the geekier twitter crowd would have compensated for that considering it's a tool, not a general interest, consumer addon. Anyway, thought I'd share.
- Micah Wittman
I was thinking about it tonight b/c Google announced more languages were added to Google Translate, so I need to update all the scripts.
- Micah Wittman
Amit: one reason I travel the world and actually meet with people is to gauge what they are excited about. And I can tell you a LOT MORE than just Facebook haters have left here. Most of the geeks I hang out with say they definitely are visiting FriendFeed less.
- Robert Scoble
3 years from now, FF is going to be alive and running and sporting cool features. So this seems to be about something else. Where the bleeding edge is residing, perhaps. Or maybe just where Robert's friends are spending time. I'm not bleeding edge. I'm looking forward to the days in the future when there are people still here sharing, both old timers and new fresh users. Which is also today.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Christopher: some people still use AOL too. So? I like to be with the geeks and will allocate my time based on where they are and where I think they may be.
- Robert Scoble
So the question is: Where are all the geeks now? Facebook?
- Winston Teo
i'm back from cook out... with a full belly and i'm gonna watch some simpsons... talk amongst yourselves
- Chris Heath
Just half a geek compared to some of y'all, but still here and Twitter. I still have a hard time wanting to "invest" in Facebook. There is no conversation there. This is conversation.
- Karma Martell
What I want to know is what will you 'Geeks' do when Google Wave launches?
- Sandra Large
I'm not sure FF has ever been the front-line or redoubt for geeks. I thought we were here because this technology and place is simply special -- it fills a big gap and provides a service. The cool kids have always been elsewhere. To paraphrase one tech guru's recent comment... "So?"
- Christopher Galtenberg
Most of the people who signed up for FriendFeed are geeks.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Everyone's still here just engagements have fallen generally across the board until FriendFeed announce it's going to stay around (when Facebook says "FriendFeed is our R&D it provides us with 300k users to bucktest features")
- Nicholas James
Let us know when you find a better forum to spread your wings
- Houseofmax
Other than twitter/facebook, where do you plan to "invest your time"?
- timepilot
The FF integration with FB is excellent -- my whole news feed on FB comes from FF, and my friends can't tell a difference. I only expect this integration to get better. FF thus becomes your "advanced tweakable news feed", with support for "off-FB conversations".
- Christopher Galtenberg