Categorization of Social Tools, But Not in the Librarian Sort of Way

I can’t recall where I came upon this post today, as I have about 15 tabs open in Firefox right now (thank goodness for browser tabs), but it basically lists social media categories. If I’ve counted right, it lists 14 categories, like aggregators, microblogging, and such. Take a look. So what other categories could be [...]

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I’m Not in Love with the Hoff

It’s always fun to read the plenty of social media articles in the NY times and yesterday’s article about Hoffspace was no exception. Let’s skip over the song and and dance: why build a social networking site about the Hoff? Yes, I recall that cheeseburger video that was both amusing and sad, but does the [...]

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Thursday Dessert: Twitter ElectionFeed

For the past hour and a half I’ve been stuck on my own Twitter feed and the Twitter Election Feed. If you’ve also been watching the feed, you probably need not ask, what is Twitter good for anyway? Right, what an amazing way to share sentiment about this event in real-time. The microblogging was flying. [...]

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