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Sep 24 2008

RSS Feeds Travelling Around the Globe

Category: just for fun — jmacofearth @ 1:01 am

Wow, if we keep syndicating across syndication tools, at what point does our feed come back to us a feed from someone else? 5 times around the world with my RSS feeds.

MyBlog Community Page Added.
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Sep 18 2008

Twitter FAIL, Twitter Whale, Twitter will Fly Away Eventually

Category: just for fun,social media,tech opinion — jmacofearth @ 7:39 pm

Twitter is good because

  • lots of people use it
  • i have a lot of followers
  • i can track interesting people and events
  • it is social media

Twitter fails because

  • it is unreliable
  • their servers cannot handle the load
  • they are doing something wrong
  • it is broken
  • the company is not really a company at all, it's a bunch of smart kids

Twitter will fly away because

  • it fails
  • they are not partnering with the right folks if they are still failing
  • google doesn't need to buy them
  • a tweet may be unique to twitter, but the micro-blog format is nothing special, just a feed
  • yammer.com replicated their business model in a couple of weeks
  • it's nothing special
  • aggregation of our social media bits and bytes is the uber play
  • friendfeed does twitter better than twitter, the tweet is an afterthought limited to 140 characters

What better way to make a newbie socialite salivate than teasing me with new followers.

twitter-new follower request

twitter-new follower request

And the joke continues to be on me.

twitter-deleted account

twitter-deleted account

But I think the real joke is that the Tweet Folks can't figure it out. This has been an issue for about 2 months.

And Biz Stone kept saying at the TWITLIVE conference last week, "Now that Al3x is full-time…" As if now we should have confidence that sending stuff directly to alex's email is going to result in speedy and efficient fixes. And I'm thinking… "they just got 15 mil in new investment and they brought on ONE FTE to manage the morass?" I guess they wanted to put a lot of it in investments while they are hedging their bets and putting off upgrading the servers.

But, of course, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Except this:

friendfeed - profile + services

friendfeed - profile + services

Now if we can just get an OPEN ID and OPEN MESH system in place. (Calling Mark Cantor, calling Mark Cantor!)

And…

twitter-timeout error

twitter-timeout error

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And now enjoy some fail whale humor from other sites.

The fail whale widget.

A fail whale t-shirt.

An interview with Yiying Lu the fail whale artist.

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Sep 17 2008

Defining a Trusted Social Network

Category: community building,tech opinion,trust & reputation — jmacofearth @ 1:01 am

For many of us who attend tradeshows every year (my pilgrimage is SXSW Interactive here in Austin) there is a common theme of connection.

Kathy Sierra asked her keynote audience in 2006, "How many of you are live-blogging this presentation?"

When 20 or so hands went up in the room of 500+ she followed up, "Why are you HERE? I mean, all of you can get this information online, and you can even get my speech rebroadcast via bloggers in better bite-size chunks. So… Why are you here, in Austin Texas at SXSW?" (I paraphrased.)

Her point is that we come to events to connect. We come out of passion and a desire to meet and be with others who share the same passion. We form circles of passion or adhoc groups that we can't quite establish, though we are trying, via the online experience.

So what is an event then, a live event? It is the actual social network. What we create in our online social communities is a pale substitute for the real, look-in-your-eyes, connection that you and I might make if we were sitting in a room together sharing coffee.

And I believe it is the passion and trust that is hard to translate into online communities. If we are too passionate we come across as enthusiasts, who often do not have the commitment or weight behind what we are saying. Or we might not have "earned" the trust or reputation that this kind of enthusiasm requires.

And trust is a quality you earn. You cannot advertise trust, or claim expertise within a group where you are not “trusted.” Well, you can, but your effectiveness will be blunted and perhaps your ideas rebuffed.

So how can we build communities of trust and passion using existing social media tools?

I believe the building blocks of the required “trust” are formed in face-to-face meetings. Once trust is established between myself and a team member there is very little I will not share (aka: risk) with this “known” friend.  And so EVENTS are a place where we can begin to define and establish our networks of trust and passion. And perhaps learning from our first-hand experience, in building and participating in these next-gen or “trusted social networks” we can help define this potential for the social enthusiasts who follow and gather with us to commune and share.

See you online or at SXSWi 2009.

@jmacofearth
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Note: John McElhenney works for Dell's Global Online Team exploring social media

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Sep 16 2008

Making a Mesh of it All – A Portable Profile for the Future?

Category: community building,connections,executive learnings,social media,trust & reputation — jmacofearth @ 1:01 am

It's at least once a week that someone expounds poetic about a new social technology. Something along the lines of, "Follow me, friend me, badge and group me, and let's all hook up after work for a margarita this Friday."

I was blurry eyed and fuzzy brained today when a colleague was giving me the scoop of a new "fan-based" platform. "It's something that Zappos uses…" I admit I was not full of my usual energy for the new find. In fact, try as I might, I could not get the gist of the advantage of the platform to any other platform of the 10 platforms that I use regularly. Oh, but it does have a mobile, "iPhone-ready" I think he said, version out-of-the-box.

I relish the work I do with Dell these days. Social media is definitely the next-gen thing, and Dell is definitely leading the charge in many areas. So to sit on a team at one of the world's largest internet retailers and to be getting to talk about this new stuff, I am truly honored. The catch phrase "dream job" doesn't really do it justice. But I blather…

Back to this new platform, site, technology, sociology, folksonomy, taxological framework…

All I could think about was one of the early WEB 2.0 mantras. Users should be able to import and export their data easily and without barrier. And it hit me.

SMACK!

We've been talking a lot about Single Sign On lately. So that users don't have to remember multiple accounts and passwords just to navigate several social media sections of Dell.com. And I have been trying to up the ante with OPEN ID or whatever the next-level of OPEN ID is. What I really want is simplicity AND portability.

How can I create a central profile (kind of like I have on FriendFeed) that easily integrates with the newest of the new social media systems? And what kind of security would be required and what needs to be strengthened in OPEN ID? (See FFoFF) then when my friend says, "You've got to check this one out." I could simply add the new system to my "social keychain" and I'd be learning rather than updating. And I am sure my eyes would be less likely to glase over at the exclamation of, "You've got to check this one out."

And lastly, I began thinking of all the abandoned profiles I have in all those "newest" of last year sites; and how in Second Life, when you are not online your character just slumps and hovers. And I would want my portable profile to be retractable as well. I really like the link on the twitter profile screen that says, "Delete this Profile." Not that I would do it, but it is nice to know, that with a click (Boy, I sure hope they ask for confirmation after the first click.) I could wipe all traces of my existence from the wikiblogiforumcommunity that I no longer feel attached to.

Click. >> Yes I'm sure. >> */Poof/* >> Click here to create an account.

Nah, I don't think I will. Not today.

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∴ A Collaborative Space: WebEx, Go-To-Meeting, Skype, Basecamp (Teaming/Meeting Tools)
∴ Twitter Problem: How do you find enough interesting people to follow? Then how do you keep up with them?
∴ The Agile Mind: Construction, Evolution, Care, and Feeding Instructions for Mental Flexibility

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