DISQUS

Congrats to Team Blippr and to the folks at 12seconds and vlip integration will be fun for one and all.

Good list, thanks. Two I would add: a small telephony company, Ribbit (Ribbit.com), that actively twitters, blogs and more with the interested party/developer community...and Whole Foods, whose recent blog post, "We're All A-Twitter," says much about their thinking on social media: http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/2008/07/we%e2%...

Thanks for pulling these thoughts together.

Ellen Petry Leanse
http://twitter.com/chep2m

Still tweaking around but can't understand "Boxes." Why "Boxes"? Couldn't "Apps" work? Hard when people come up with new names for things that already have names.

Rock on, Baratunde! Woot! I was just about to publish a "Rant" post about this, when, *poof* we has poups! Congrats and thanks and I'll get right on it.

Just as soon as I find something else to rant about...

hmmm...friend suggestions...

Ellen

Anthony, great thoughts. It would be interesting to explore the input to this graph...and correlations between hours spent (or "activities conducted," e.g. #Tweets, etc.) and results ("Follower" growth, #@messages, #dmessages, ratios of followings:followers) and correlaries on FB etc.

The good news is that I've been tracking all of this for about 6 weeks for a tech start-up. I'll try to work with your graph and see if we can find ways to fine-tune what we are doing so that it gives us some ROI metrics...yay!

Thanks for great insights. Ellen

I was excited about Summize for business reasons (and I still am) but in playing with it I discovered that I can search Tweets pretty openly, even if I'm not a Twitter user or connected (Following or Follower) to the Tweeter. Details here:

http://tinyurl.com/5s8wzd

Thanks; any insights or comments welcome. Ellen

Wow, Baratunde. Inspiring words. I hope that I have done and will continue to do at least some of what you thank your mom for doing as I support my three sons on their paths.

From a Mom’s perspective: nothing is more satisfying—and more a celebration of our own paths, as Moms—than seeing our children do well, live well, love life, and find their way. I’m sure that your Mom loves seeing you thrive, still inspiring you, still being there for you in some mysterious way. I’m saluting her, too, today—she’s still doing a great job.

All the best,

Ellen

wow. if they'd only told me. I coulda done that for them, and long ago.

Great insights, Nick. At the end of the day, we have to manage our social media initiatives and ROI for ourselves–because we are learning by being there, because we are absorbing the nature of online services and connections, and because when we call on the grid (in appropriate measures) to help us broadcast, ask, converse, it will do that for us. But like anything else in life, it’s a slow build of trust, credibility, finding the right alliances and developing relationships. The tools are tools. What matters is what you build with them.

Great insights, Nick. At the end of the day, we have to manage our social media initiatives and ROI for ourselves--because we are by being there, because we are absorbing the nature of online services and connections, and because when we call on the grid (in appropriate measures) to help us broadcast, ask, converse, it will do that for us. But like anything else in life, it's a slow build of trust, credibility, finding the right alliances and developing relationships. The tools are tools. What matters is what you build with them.