[thelist] social media sites
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Mon Aug 18 14:28:25 CDT 2008
On 18 Aug 2008, at 20:14, Bob Meetin wrote:
Extremely opinionated response follows :-)
> * facebook
Second rate geocities for people too lazy/incapable of building their
own sites
> * myspace
The same, but for students
> * bebo
The same, but for teenagers
> * linkedin
Big CV repository; is useful for getting noticed by recruiters, with
generally better leads than other CV thingies.
> * twitter
Blogging for the lazy. Fun though.
> * plaxo pulse
Aggregator of linkedin + twitter + last.fm. Irritating when you get
people who want to link there *as well as* on linkedin.
> * digg
Slashdot groupthink, with added AOL-ness</metoo>
> * youtube
Source of much miming, TV rips. Also has fun mashups, and used very
effectively by the Obama campaign.
> i'm putting together a data sheet for myself with some general
> recommendations for clients. what is conspicuously missing from the
> list?
last.fm
flickr
Cheers
Martin
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