i envision this as an informal affair starting after work for convenience but where people can come and go throughout the evening until it dies.
i’ll continue to post updates on this blog and to twitter
i’ll continue to post updates on this blog and to twitter
i had a few ideas about things to talk about at the tweetup if people are interested. if we record the discussion each could make for a decent blog post for someone on their respective blogs or elsewhere. here they are:
- do different communication channels need specific topics?
- luis suarez declared on twitter this morning that he would start posting to identi.ca, which at first blush i cast as a mistake, and after deliberating a bit can justify if each account has a specific purpose. i think people use specific social networks differently: linkedin, facebook, twitter, aim, email, etc. and this is why some people get so upset when certain types of messages sully their stream. what do others think of this notion?
- is rss dying? more to the point, what is rss’ future role?
- with the emergence of friendfeed and twitter as content discovery platforms, many have abandoned their rss reader as a primary source for information gathering. what do you think about this? they’ve done this primarily because their rss signal-to-noise has decreased and twitter/friendfeed, as well as filtering systems – aiderss/postrank, toluu – have emerged to help people increase their signal. some maintain that rss plays an important role in the unadulterated distribution of content. without it, the secondary/filtered sources dry up because fewer people are seeding them. others argue that distributing content into the filtered sytems first, for immediate ranking by the community will weed out weaker content and the group will benefit through posts of higher value. where do you stand?
- new facebook design and mobile apps
- facebook has recently released a fantastic app for the iphone and is also redesigning it’s profile pages and the role that apps play on the site. as i’ve used my iphone i’ve noticed that all the mobile communication apps are generally the same – a list of updates with the ability to add content through a small textbox and a keyboard interface. as more mobile apps are released, what does their agnostic quality augur for social networks? does this refute my first point? if all apps start to look the same on the emerging platform will they start to be used in similar ways? what role do the full websites then play in creating/establishing an identity for their communities?
what’s on your mind? post ideas – topics and location – in the comments or to twitter. hope this can happen.