What Are Your Friends Up To?
Posted by Mark Levy | Posted in Articles, Online News, Social Networks | Posted on 23-05-2008
Tags: FriendFeed, Linkedin, Social Networks, Twitter, Zannel
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By Mark Levy, CEO MaxxoMedia
I thought I had the social network angle all covered with my Facebook profile, Linkedin profile, Plaxo, my website and a blog. But then I noticed people “Twittering” and “Zanneling” through my Facebook updates and I was intrigued. What were these new strange verbs, I thought?
So I went over to www.twitter.com and www.zannel.com and I looked around.
What I found was people of all ages, all across the globe sharing their lives in bite size bits — sharing web pages, photos, news stories and conversations being overheard. More bits sharing ideas, new product launches, videos, bookmarks and slideshows. Even more bits with moments of the mundane, the sad and the peculiar.
Then I dug a little more and found that there are many more sites with strange names, encouraging people to share their interests, loves, hates and lives. Some of the sites share information with other sites. They create a daisy chain effect where, for instance, I can Zannel a new video of the woodpecker harassing me during my conference calls, and it will feed the link to my Twitter account, which then feeds Plaxo and Facebook.
But what if you wanted to share and collect all the information on all your friends regardless of which site they are using?
