Comments on: Social Media Technologies and the Fishbowl: What’s In, What’s Out?

By: Remedy » Social Media Technology: What’s In, What’s Out?

Remedy » Social Media Technology: What’s In, What’s Out? — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:53:19 +0000

[...] Here’s a blogger’s opinion on what’s in and what’s out in the Web 2.0 world. Tagged: in, out, Social media, web 2.0 [...]

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:02:33 +0000

Yeah, I’d say (unfortunately) RSS is still pretty firmly in, although I think it’s actually services like FeedBlitz and FeedBurner’s email option that are increasing bringing it out. Most people who aren’t spammed/bacned to death still like to get their subscriptions via email — another thing we in the fishbowl sometimes forget.

By: Daniel Johnson, Jr.

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:40:32 +0000

I subscribe to this blog and podcast via Netvibes. I'm looking to use it as a way to get my information in a big dashboard. Still haven't given up on Google Reader, though. I guess it could be said that RSS is still IN, huh?

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:37:29 +0000

DJ — it’s funny ‘cus I don’t think of Netvibes and FriendFeed as being the same at all. I think of Netvibes as more of news reader than social media aggregator. I wouldn’t even think of subscribing 3rd party feeds into FriendFeed — does it even do that?

For my part, I tend to use Google Reader for that sort of stuff, but I do know a number of folks who prefer Netvibes or iGoogle, so I don’t think you’re alone in digging the chunks.

By: DJ Francis for OnlineMarketerBlog

DJ Francis for OnlineMarketerBlog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:21:17 +0000

Heh, great list, Jay.

I’d be interested to hear what people think about Netvibes. Personally, I love it and when I show those less-savvy, they are amazed. But with FriendFeed getting a lot more digital ink from a lot of important people, I’m not sure if there’s room for both.

Am I the only person who prefers my news in chunks rather than a scrolling list? Sigh…

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:07:23 +0000

That’s very true – maybe I am thinking more that names which mean nothing have potential (google, flickr etc) whereas names that conjur up something else are doomed. btw, did you ever see http://www.wufoo.com? if ever there was a killer help section, it’s on there.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:00:07 +0000

Thanks Andy… although I don’t really buy that names make any difference to anything. Who would have thought “Yahoo” and “Google” were ever going to amount to anything with their stupid names?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:56:03 +0000

Hey Jay.

Totally agree with you on this.

Twitter is great, if you’re one of the few that appreciates what it’s good at. Want to follow some tech conference or whatever? Great… Otherwise, who cares?

And podcasting was never going to go mainstream. And thank heavens for that. Really, can you imagine? And the name… it was never going to catch on with a name like that.