Is the threat limited to other email services? Given how robust the platform is one has to wonder if it will force a radical new hierarchy in terms of "social networking sites" There may well come a time when "sites" dedicated to SN are gone and users instead gravitate toward robust multi purpose platforms wherein in SN is an embedded rather than justifying feature
- Bahiyyih
@Bahiyyih Agreed.We're moving towards a web in which content will be distributed w sites merely as containers for others' content
- Christopher Lynn
How can it be easier on FF? It is simple IMO
- Drew Lucas
Dragging and dropping would be especially helpful. Having to navigate to each list via a list of links or a drop-down menu and then select users for each list is tedious. It'd also be helpful to be able to mass remove people from the home feed, and mass unsubscribe from people. Being able to duplicate a list would be great, too.
- Mark Trapp
Mark: visit http://friendfeed.com/friends, select "Home feed" from the drop down and click "Add/remove friends" next to the drop down, and you can bulk-deselect people to remove them from your home feed. At the top of other friend lists, click "Add/remove friends" to bulk select people to add/remove. Does that work for you?
- Bret Taylor
Bret: that definitely solves one of my issues with user management. Is the ability to remove people en masse from the home feed relatively new? I can't believe I've missed that for so long. If I remember correctly, we used to be able to select a bunch of people and subscribe or unsubscribe from them via our subscriber/subscription lists, which would also help for managing things. Now, it seems like we have to navigate to each user or hover over each user's avatar.
- Mark Trapp
A drag and drop interface would be killer, but that's definitely in my "nice to have" list.
- Mark Trapp
It is! We're working on making a transition in a corporate culture where they have had to learn about social media and change mindsets. My innovation training & coaching skills are coming in handy here, as well as social media/PR/marketing experience.:-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Scenario: You just recieved notification that you have won a contest where you will recieve income to support your current standard of living for the rest of your life (adjusting for inflation, etc). You're not any better off than you were before with the exception that you no longer have to work. What do you do now? In a year? In 5 and 10 years?
... anymore. What do you do now? In a year? In 5 and 10 years? Do you keep working to improve your financial situation or do you spend your time on other pusuits?
- Lindsay
@Mark, yes, you can do whatever you'd like.
- Lindsay
Keep working, saving the extra money toward opening a restaurant. Or a brewery.
- Joey Gibson
Lindsay, tell me, you won that contest, didn't you? :)
- directeur
For me, this is easy. I'd be able to take much better care of my Mom. After that responsibility passes, I'd like to travel a bit. I'd also love to take classes on things that are interesting to me. Jewelry making, musical instruments, languages, photography, whatever strikes me.
- Yolanda
I'd get to have the job I'd love to do: teaching. I'd be working for the joy of it rather than for the money, which right now isn't possible due to lay offs and needing an income to support my son and me. The idea of working because you want to and not because you have to is very appealing.
- Just Kidée: Road Warrior
Quit my job, travel, volunteer, and open a photography studio. I have the money for these things. Working takes up too much of my time to properly pursue them.
- Eric P
I'd quit two of my jobs and keep on being a pastor. I'd use that money to put toward education for my kids.
- Jim #TeamMonique
Simple, Turn my attention towards a few pet projects and work on them fulltime (as if it were a real job), and attempt to monetize them as much as possible, then move on to using the proceeds to invest, and try to see as many of my brilliant ideas come to fruition as possible. Oh, and also buy an island and protect it with frickin sharks with frickin lasers.
- Daniel Bruce
I'd probably finally get through my pile of unwatched DVDs and actually film something.
- James Ferguson
I would keep working on my startup (a media company), write more fiction, do more gardening, cook for myself more often, travel and workout more frequently.
- Christopher Lynn
I would quit working full time but keep a part time job at a book store for the discount. I would also finish the degree that I am working on but probably become a full time student and study history, philosophy, literature, math, etc... I'm kind of obsessed with learning now a days.
- Greg Bishop
Oh. And with my new job, I'll be more opinionated.
- Valley
MVB: it used to be common. In the US at least you're hard pressed to find any private sector job that includes a pension. As for what I'd do: no idea. That's why the concept of retirement doesn't "turn me on" too much either.
- FFing Enigma
I'd keep working until everything was paid off, including the mortgage, after which. . . I don't rightly know. Maybe keep working anyway.
- Steve Lowe
I'd spend less time worrying and more time coding. And yes, my software would continue to be donationware. That wouldn't change, and less worrying about how to make ends meet would ensure that.
- April Russo
MVB: that would by why I said 'private sector', takes the government jobs out of the equation. And living in an extremely non-union state, there are pretty much no private sector pensions anymore.
- FFing Enigma
I would pull a Ben Franklin; quit working and try my hand at inventing.
- Robert Hafer
“As more companies move on to Twitter, how are we to know who is real and who is a fake?” she asked. “How can a reporter or a consumer know that this person can be a trusted source?”
- Christopher Lynn
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Great tips from Chris Brogan on how to turn your blog into a centerpiece of your business by turning it into a full-on media property!
- Christopher Lynn
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Obama's team really does have smart marketing strategy. As this post points out, it not only energizes the community, but allows location based targeting like reminders to be sent to voters.
- Christopher Lynn
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In the middle of the Chris Anderson flacks vs hacks debacle, I wrote a post about how to best reach bloggers. Stuart uses ideas presented in that post and takes it one step further by proposing that PR use videoconferencing to have more personal encouters with the press
- Christopher Lynn
In the middle of the Chris Anderson flacks vs hacks debacle, I wrote a post about how to best reach bloggers. Stuart uses ideas presented in that post and takes it one step further by proposing that PR use videoconferencing to have more personal encouters with the press
- Christopher Lynn
Met Stuart at a Social Media Club event held at Intel on Enterprise 2.0. We had a great discussion about the use of video in the workplace.
- Christopher Lynn
Met Stuart at a Social Media Club event held at Intel on Enterprise 2.0. We had a great discussion about the use of video in the workplace.
- Christopher Lynn
"The Challenges of Social Media in the Enterprise, why Business and IT need to align" by Jeremiah Owyang, Web Strategy by Jeremiah; October 23, 2007 - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
"The Challenges of Social Media in the Enterprise, why Business and IT need to align" by Jeremiah Owyang, Web Strategy by Jeremiah; October 23, 2007 - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Yes, flashback to the days of Friendster, where my screen name was Chris Apollo. The article wonders how I could keep up with so many friends (288). If they only knew the numbers of friends sites like MySpace would bring to Weblebrities.
- Christopher Lynn
Yes, flashback to the days of Friendster, where my screen name was Chris Apollo. The article wonders how I could keep up with so many friends (288). If they only knew the numbers of friends sites like MySpace would bring to Weblebrities.
- Christopher Lynn
As Apple moves into the mainstream, they are leaving their fanboys and fangirls behind. This post gives Apple tips on how to revive the early adopters and MacCultists by using social media tools.
- Christopher Lynn
"What the hell is s social news profile? Social media marketing consultants love to throw out buzzwords in an effort to invoke fear in marketing directors. FIGHT BUZZWORDS!! Just put it out there in plain english."
- Christopher Lynn