new social media aggregators

I only recently checked in on my Twitter account after six months. I didn't see the point. But after reviewing a really old message from Erik Swedlund, I started surfing the social media sites again. Swedlund had posted a few tweets from an app called twhirl, which led me to seesmic, and along the way Hulu, and return to Friendfeed. I doubt I have all that much content to generate on these user generated content sites, but they are fun to play with and they could benefit my Internet life and work in one way or another. OK well, cheers hipsmart and all, I've gotta go to Second Life right now and make my avatar walk, fly and sit down.

link: SXSW Panel: Web 2.0 to Web 3D [part 1]

From Susan Wu's "Venture Capital" blog: SXSW Panel: Web 2.0 to Web 3D [part 1]

Excerpt:

The question I was trying to answer was, “Is the next generation of the consumer web 3D?” I think the answer is not necessarily.

1. The reason why we’re asking this question is because there’s a bubble forming in the virtual world space right now.

That’s a pretty incendiary statement. What do I mean by it? What I see on the horizon are dozens and dozens of new virtual world platforms and titles hitting the market - far more than the public will want to consume. By ‘title,’ I mean a self contained, branded version of a virtual world much like “Virtual Laguna Beach.” All the big media and consumer goods companies are looking at what’s happening with online community sites like MySpace and Facebook and want in on this action desperately.

However, I think that all of the media hype around Second Life is misleading the public about what the next generation consumer Internet might look like. That isn’t to say that Second Life doesn’t have tremendous merit in moving the dialogue forward about what collaborative work and play spaces feel like. What I mean is that there are now quite a few companies who equate “future of online communities” with “3D graphical world.” The mad rush by these big brands to create empty showrooms in SecondLife is proof of this. Just like in the dot-Bust days, there will be lots of shoddy substandard products brought to market in the mad frenzy to create a ‘presence.’

Chime in with presentation ideas on Web 2.0

I am giving a presentation on Web 2.0 to faculty members and administrators who may or may not have any idea of what Web 2.0 is comprised.

I thought one way to illustrate the social and collaborative nature of this evolution of the WWW would be to leverage the power of Web 2.0 tools to help me create the presentation.

I want to make the presentation using an active network connection and feature my google docs, flickr, blogger, facebook, del.icio.us, youtube (you name it!), accounts as the location of my content.

I will of course have a canned presentation as well, if there should be some network burps.

My hope is that all my 2.0 homies, by which I mean all of you seeing this post via blogger, friendster, facebook, myspace or RSS willl chime in with a novel idea or comment about how I might utilize Web 2.0, or Library 2.0 in the presentation.

The presentation is only 10-15 minutes long, but I think can illustrate a great deal of the power of Web services in that time.


If, on the other hand, I do not have a readership or participants, then I will strategically leave this call out of my presentation. :)

ALA Midwinter

As I get ready to go to Seattle for the Midwinter meeting of ALA, I find that several librarian friends and colleagues have posted information about there whereabouts and schedules all over social networking sites. I have written a few of them but I have no idea whether they will check the messages within their different myspace, friendster, facebook accounts. I know that I will be too busy to check anything but my email. So, do you need to monitor all your contacts across all your profiles?