DISQUS

RSS doesn't have to be dead, and you're right - it's far from it. But I think Google has a responsibility to update and improve their web properties (particularly the largest feed provider currently available, FeedBurner) to meet the new demands. Frankly, I was disappointed with FeedBurner from the start, as I fully expected real-time feeds as opposed to the bursts of 20 items at a time that it currently gives.

However, Google did pleasantly surprise me with their Google Voice overhaul. After a long period of inactivity with GrandCentral, they re-released it as Google Voice with a great deal of improvements; so there is still hope on the table for fixing FeedBurner.

As far as blogging is concerned, it's a different layer in the whole social conversation; the real-time web is laid on top of the foundation of blogs and other content providers (think YouTube or Last.fm's Track Pages) and simply translates the periodic media, much like the conversation surrounding newspapers and magazines in the non-virtual world, into a more transient stream of discussion.

In short, I think your basis for this post is a little off--but in essence, you're right. But you've got to look at the real-time web as a completion of the virtual world, and not an obsolescence of the relatively "older" technologies. I mean, look where we've come with Email: it is one of the oldest forms of interaction on the web, and yet we still use it every day. Why? Because it's a necessary layer in the online world.

I really like this approach! I'm a little worried about further increasing the amount of mail I receive, but could you show us what this looks like with some screenshots?

I do have to say that the server-side changes were pretty awesome, the latest patch really fixes a lot of problems with large fleets and lag. (Hey, even Jita is tolerable now!)

I'm planning on adding this to one of my larger sites, RolePlayGateway. This particular video wasn't very useful to me, but I definitely look forward to see how we can add social actions on Facebook.

I'd like to see some sort of migration path from a blog to SweetCron... having a WordPress blog hosted in the home directory makes a migration (with proper 301 redirects...) somewhat complex, it seems.

Let's turn Google Reader into a reader - let me see a list of items, not just RSS feeds. Give me my emails there, too.

What kind of item is this? RSS. Hit my J key. Next item is an email. What do I want to do? Respond. Hit my J key. Ooh, look - calendar invitation.

Oh - and it would be nice if you used the ID tag inside every RSS item to identify duplicate content and eliminate it. Shared feeds tend to get me five copies of some articles.

How about competing with FriendFeed before it's too late? Get on it, Google. You're being slow.

Yeah, just leave it to Google to do the impossible.

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I don't think "search" is the keyword these days, either... it's more "social" than anything.

Now the question is, can we make search social?

Yep, I did this, and I never looked back.

Boink, and I've finally purchased the book, from Amazon, too - enjoy the affiliate kickback!

Wow, this is great! No more digging through yearbooks to find old classmates!

Totally a plus on the social media aspect, and yes - this would be great on LinkedIn. Expect them to deploy something like this in the next 2 months, for sure.

Wow, nice post. HotOrNot was a good case study choice!

So wait... social media ISN'T about SEO?

http://twitter.com/Martindale to make this easier for you, since I see you're entirely swamped. ;D

Social marketeting and SERP mastery.

Haha, great find. I've been using it for just over a week. It's really useful - but I still have to hop on to Google Analytics every few hours so I can... *twitch* ...get my fix.

Great post, but I'd recommend slimming down the number of items shown in your "See Also" block. It's overwhelming to the eye, and causes people to completely skip over it.

Yeah, I signed up for Microsoft successfully, after a couple handfuls of errors. I guess I just had to wait it out. Ask wouldn't accept my credit card, for some reason. But, it's all good, I'm now $500 worth of advertising paid for $5. Thanks, good find.