"Although I do have a Facebook, none of my other friends do. My friends just thought it was a waste of time. I decided to get a Facebook just to see what it was all about. I soon discovered that Facebook is useless without friends. My only friend is, like, my grandma."
So, Snip.it was bought by Yahoo and is being shut down. They've put together a "Hall of Fame" of contributors and I was named as one of the top contributors in the "Politics & World" category...
From an email I received from their Content Director:
I want to personally thank you for all your amazing contributions to the product, both in your snips and in your feedback to us. I’ve been continually impressed by all the interesting, unique content you’ve unearthed, as well as your thoughtful commentary on it. The quality of your contributions made the site an absolute joy to browse.
To honor all of your support and contributions, we’ve included you in our Snip.it Hall of Fame, a place to celebrate our top snippers. We’ve included your Twitter handle, so people can continue to follow your insights.
We've also created a Snip.it Hall of Fame, where we’re honoring some of the top contributors to the Snip.it community. We’ve included their Twitter handles so you can continue to stay connected and follow their insights.
I joined Snip.it while it was still in beta and have posted to it more days than not since then. They’ve been cool, it’s a great service, and their staff has been very supportive. From nearly the beginning, they featured my content, which I was pretty proud of, and I seem to have attracted quite a few followers there.
Supposedly, they will be reinventing themselves with Yahoo. I hope so. They were a great service.
We are thrilled at the opportunity to bring Snip.it's vision to a larger scale at Yahoo!. While we can't share the specifics of what we'll be building, we are excited about the opportunity to take social news to new, exciting heights at Yahoo!. The Yahoo! team is passionate about inspiring and entertaining the world’s daily habits, and certainly sharing news and information is something we all do every day. The vision and energy at the company is contagious, and we’re so excited to be part of all that is to come.
So now, I just need to figure out what to do with the links I’ve saved there. There are a couple ways to download them for future use, and I’ll be taking a look at how to get these back out there, when I have a little time…
I just deleted the Snip It button from my browser. That makes me sad.
Unfortunately, in life, with both the good and the bad, “This, too, shall pass…”
Snip.it: All My Base Belong To You - HTML Links
Snip.it: Democracy In Distress - HTML Links
Snip.it: Favorites
Snip.it: Retrovirus Lab - HTML Links
Snip.it: Rubble - HTML Links
Snip.it: Suburban Eschatology Part Two - HTML Links
Yahoo Is In Talks To Buy A Site We Actually Use, Snip.It
Snip.It is a social site that resembles a mash up of Pinterest's collections and Instapaper's ability to save links for consumption later.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-acquires-snipit-2013-1#ixzz2IoskdMnR
Yahoo Poised to Acquire Content Curation Site Snip.it - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD:
Snip.it was founded by Ramy Adeeb, who was formerly a principal at Khosla Ventures, and has funding from Khosla, True Ventures, Charles River Ventures and SV Angel.
Yahoo is paying “mid teens” of millions of dollars for the company, according to a source.
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Kara Swisher yesterday described Yahoo’s new approach to content:While one might argue that Google is already the Google of content, the plan is to make Yahoo more relevant by tailoring it to the individual and make the site a “trusted destination to get them to where they want to go and keep going back.”
Thus, the thinking goes, while Google is the place people come to search for links, Yahoo then becomes the place users come to find content. That means more partnership deals from third-party sources, with an additional social component layer and synced across a number of devices and platforms, especially video.
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I didn’t re-read everything I migrated over from the old Live Journal blog tonight, other than glancing at a few paragraphs here and there…
The last year was an uncommon year. An unusual year. And it is a year I hope not to have to repeat ever again.
A lot of “spam” out to the social networks today. Looks like Facebook and Twitter quit taking the Hootsuite posts. Maybe I should have scheduled them. That would have been more work than it was worth, though.
Now, as I go back through the remaining nine years worth of posts, I am not going to post them at the top of the blog, I am going to back date them. But I knew this was a lightly posted though eventful year, so I thought it would be interesting (okay, maybe a few years from now) to have the details sorted out in order like this. Of course, since they are out of sequence now, I may never be able to find them later!
Blah. A couple chores and then bed. Long day tomorrow.
The main reason I wanted to jam through all of that, though, was to test out the new posting system, and I would call it a success. Also, I was able to populate delicious.com with a lot of posts from all four blogs to help get the new “Related Posts” app up, running, and functional.
Yea!
Originally posted on Live Journal: Suburban Eschatology Part Two (September 12, 2011, 9:56 PM)
I am not a fan of kids on social media. Teens, sure, but under thirteen seems a bit much. My son would love a Facebook account, but I do not think he is ready. On top of this, he spent so much time on the computer over the last year, without access to any real social networking, that I had to take him into the doctor to have his carpal tunnel symptoms looked at this afternoon.
Anyway, here is yet another reason why kids and social networking services are a bad idea...
3:58 PM – From SE2 to All 4 Rubble Sites
Success. But I do not like the permalink deal in the automatic crossposting header… Fixed.
4:03 PM – Ping.fm Cross-posting tests…
First issue, Live Writer has “forgotten” my API key…
Second issue, Live.fm has forgotten my e-mail address…And that seems unresolvable at the moment. Fun.
4:15 PM – Ping.fm = Duh, Winning!
Can’t get back into my account there. Pretty sure the error is on their end. No new user email from them either. Even checked my spam on Yahoo. So much for them, for now.
More to test out later. First cleaning up these posts from the other Blogger sites, then a break…
Then checking into the Related Posts feature and then working on templates for my regular posts.
So much for my “do nothing” day! But all of these tools will save me a ton of time in the long run.
4:30 PM – TAG CREATOR APP!!!!!!
Maybe not… clunky and the tool already installed works fine.
Related Posts tool? Failing so far…
Okay, so that works now. Log in issue (mine)…
4:40 PM
Getting a strange error message, but it appears to be from the delicious.com auto posting tool thingy, the last update went onto Blogger just fine…
Of course, now I am having a strange formatting issue. Notice? No, you don’t. I used my ninja-strength html powers to fix it!
Break time. For real. And enough of this.
Next chore… Adding posts to delicious.com.
Let’s see how this f’er bounces around my little blogosphere… (PS. Still hate that word!)
2:49 PM
This one should head to the Rubblebase blogs…
2:50 PM
Fail…
3:31 PM
Tested some posting functionality on Ping.fm… Flooded everything everywhere with testing spam. Cleaning it up now. Then to address the cross-posting tools on Live Writer. Fun.
3:37 PM
Okay, this does not appear to be posting anywhere!
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| From 2011-11 (Nov) |
Having a hard time finding my groove today. Tinkering with some tech stuff. Planned on sitting down and getting through some photos today, and I probably will later, but I just haven’t got there yet and I do not want to sit here at the computer all damned day. If I leave it with the few photos that I have uploaded to Photobucket and flikr today, I will call it a victory.
There is enough sitting in front of the computer all day ahead of me in the coming weeks.
I am writing this on MS Live Writer. This might be the new posting method. Just tinkering… We’ll see. There are some things that I am liking about this already. Essentially it just comes down to working with it for a while and seeing if it is helping with my efficiency or just being a pain in the ass that I do not want to deal with.
Hootesuite is another experiment like this. So far, a couple weeks in now, I’ve gone from loving it, to hating it, to somewhere in the middle. Considering that it is a paid service, I want to really be sure before I start giving them six bucks a month. Then again, I just realized, I am not using any of the paid features these days. For free, it is probably worth adding permenently to my tool box.
Life… Busy busy couple weeks. Two Occupation events, One Day On Earth, more photos and videos than I can shake a big stick at, and deadlines for processing all of that content. Yesterday I was too burned out to do much. Today, not feeling much better. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, but through some stretches, you got to put a little gas into it.
In other news, the first term is over for the big one. Conference on Monday. Should be interesting. Not all finalized yet, but this is what his grades are looking like right now…
I do not expect any surprising changes on the final report card, though there is one big essay project that he completed at home that may be counted as some extra credit points in Language Arts that has not hit yet…
So, for those keeping count, for his graded classes…
However, looking at his day to day grades over the last month or so, there is no reason for him not to be earning Cs and Bs in all of his classes winter term. It is just hard to get all the way back to good when you earn zero points for close to the first third of the term.
Tests are going to be the challenge for Winter Term, and maintaining the habits he is building now when I go back to work and he has to take on some more responsibility when it comes to his homework.
For tests, he is still bombing most of them. If it were not for that, he probably would have passed most of his classes this term (except for L.A.).
As for his study habits, we spent many long hours the last couple months working at home on the work he should have been completing in class. Towards the end, though, he realized that if he wanted to do anything after school other than chores and homework, he needed to start working in class, and he started turning that around.
The challenge will come when I go back to work. He and his mother will be responsible for getting the work done then. From what I saw this trimester, they aren’t where they need to be yet to get that done successfully yet.
Blah.
Time to post. That rock ain’t rolling itself up the hill today.
UPDATE:
Okay… Post-posting analysis of this posted post! Chew on that.
Picasa picture did not come through right. I added in the old school link for the big picture through Blogger. Little thumbnail is all that came through from Window Live Writer.
However, I did see how to add that source code in through the MS application, so that may not be a deal killer yet.
Now, if I can set up templates for my common daily and weekly posts, that may make me love this program (or other, better non-MS ones like it that I find later) forever!
Posting the update… More opportunities for success and failure.
UPDATE ON THE UPDATE:
Spacing issues on the post… could be due to some other tweaking I did. The update looks fine, so far. We’ll see. Do not need to ever use any program that would require me to reformat the whole post every time I update to fix a typo…
UPDATE ON THE UPDATE UPDATE:
Isn’t this fun? With my OCD I can do this all damn day! Yes, definitely starting to notice a warm fuzzy feeling with this program. Updating the update, very smooth. Now time to just run with it for a while and see how it goes.
Still need to look into templates…
UPDATE ON THE UPDATE…. Ah, enough of that….
Checking out support for tumblr. tumblr may have been an idea that does not have legs. I like the service, but I just do not have time to post everything twice. Still checking out the cross-posting tools here, though. That might just save the day.
If not, while I will not get rid of tumblr, it may need to find a new purpose. As I explained, I like it, but it does not seem to play well with others.
……Whoa…. Related Posts plug in?!? Kiss me deeply and call me Bambi… I’ve found my home… If it works. Well.
Times for updates… That is the new plan…. 2:02 PM
Related posts… uses delicious.com. Cross posting feature, one of the options, also messes with Ping.fm… New accounts being set up. Blah. MORE WORK!
Taking over the internet one post at a time is pretty detailed work!
And I still have no idea if the related posts feature will be worth all of this, but it is a feature I’ve wanted to add to the Rubblebase sites for awhile, so onward with the new account set up…
2:27 PM
Delicious link stacks set up. Ping.fm… Well, it all links up to everything, so I may have some issues with multiple posting for a bit until I get that sorted out. I may want to, again, disconnect everything. Or not. That might kill Hootesuite for me. It just depends on whether or not, in the long run, I want to post to social media manually or automatically…
Ping.fm, though, may handle tumblr.
As usual, a whole lot of new, a whole lot of change, all at once. It will take a while to sort it all out.
3:45 PM
Ran through a bunch of stuff with Ping.fm. Flooded everything with lots of testing spam. I think I have most of it cleaned up now, but maybe I missed some someplace…
I may be able to tweak that account into being something really useful, but right now it is pretty much just an “Emergency Broadcast System” for my blogs… A post there is a post everywhere. That can be useful, especially for things like, “I lost my phone, please use Jenna’s number to reach me.” But other than that?
Time to finish up with the Windows Live Writer set up. So far, so good.
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| From 2011-11 (Nov) |
Top 10 Features Users Want From Google+ Brand Pages:
It’s still too early to tell what will come from the recently launched Google+ brand pages.
We asked our followers what they hope to see added in the future, and after reading hundreds of comments, the key things appear to be multiple administrators, app integration and more customization.
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Google+ had a chance to compete with Facebook. Not anymore. - Slate Magazine:
The episode illustrated a persistent and likely fatal problem for Google’s effort to take on Facebook: There’s nothing to do on Google+, and every time someone figures out a possible use for it, Google turns out the lights."
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The real test of Google’s social network is what people do after they join. As far as anyone can tell, they aren’t doing a whole lot.
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In theory, it was appealing to send “private” messages to certain groups, but in practice I thought most people would find it tedious to categorize their friendships. And apart from the Circles feature—which Facebook quickly co-opted—I didn’t think Google+ distinguished itself from its rivals in any compelling way. I still don’t.
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And yet, I’ve been surprised by just how dreary the site has become. Although Google seems determined to keep adding new features, I suspect there’s little it can do to prevent Google+ from becoming a ghost town. Google might not know it yet, but from the outside, it’s clear that G+ has started to die—it will hang on for a year, maybe two, but at some point Google will have to put it out of its misery.
Google+ is not a social network, but it’s not a graveyard, either | VentureBeat:
Over the past couple of weeks, the Internet’s frothy enthusiasm over Google+ has dried into proclamations of its imminent death.
Social media experts and bloggers who were one month ago hailing the fledgling service as the second coming of Christ are now calling it a graveyard and a ghost town.
But from where Google executive Bradley Horowitz sits, in an office on the Google campus in Mountain View, the vista isn’t nearly so dire.
“I don’t blame the pundits,” he says, “they’re not privy to our long-term strategies.”
The comment may seem snide or passive-aggressive; it’s also true to some extent. To understand Google’s plans for Plus, Horowitz says, you need to listen less and watch more.
“Six months from now, it will become increasingly apparent what we’re doing with Google+,” he says with a measure of opacity. “It will be revealed less in what we say and more in the product launches we reveal week by week.”
Over the past couple of weeks, we have, in fact, been seeing Google+’s social features creep into other Google web products, including Reader and Blogger.
Google+ is everywhere: First Reader, now Blogger, soon everything else | VentureBeat:
Google is gradually integrating Google+ features into all its web products. We heard it at Google’s Mountain View campus last week from the Google+ team, and it’s fast becoming a reality.
Googlers see Google+ as “more than a social network or a collection of communication tools; it’s Google’s plan to bring social information into everything you do on the web, from shopping to search to email and beyond,” the team told us.
The new profile-editing tools show an upcoming integration with Google’s new social tools. Although those features can’t currently be activated, a dialog inside Blogger’s user profile editor reads, “Connect Blogger to Google+: Use your Google profile and get access to upcoming Google+ features on Blogger.”
Google+ Brand Pages vs. Facebook Fan Pages:
...should a company have a Facebook page and a Google+ page?
Although it’s still too early to tell what will come of it, many major companies are taking on the additional network. So far, it seems the main differences between the two are Facebook’s applications and advertisers versus Google+’s Hangouts feature. From video chats with Muppets to exclusive deals for liking a page, these are just a few ways companies are getting creative.
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snook chaipornvadee
Goolge+ pages is still very post based and not very interactive. However, the ability to be able to target specific audiences will help for the marketers. I saw that Britney Spears was asking her followers to tell her what country they are from. She circled them into different countries. That is very crucial in terms of niche marketing which will be important in the future when brands have to target different markets. Brands can make posts in different languages according to the countries. Brands can bombard info that pertain to different niche markets without annoying other fans.
G+ fan page is stronger and more beneficial to the brands and marketers in terms of foundation. But facebook has number....
I think that google plus is already a great place for certain markest especially social media savvy, early tech adopters, photographers, food bloggers, and a few more. However, it lacks the “regular” people.
I believe that google+ will gain more active users in the coming months and years thanks to all the other google services that will be linked to it. Active users on other google services like Picasa, Maps, Android, etc will find Google+ to be beneficial.
Google needs to make Google+ feels like a necessity rather than “another” social media site. It depends on how hard google forces G+ upon us, we may not even have a choice but to have an account.
The marketers will find Google+ to be another outlet to connect with their audiences just like how twitter, reddit, and tumblr are. The more outlets, the better for the marketers.
Google+ is now awfully popular in Taiwan and other Chinese speaking countries. At least, brands can find good uses there....
I don’t like how people say that google fails at social media, when the second largest search engine after google is youtube, which is also a social media and has all the social aspects.
Youtube has united the world more than any other social media sites. (my personal opinion).
Jay Killeen
Further to this it is inevitable that with Google Analytics integration you won’t need to ask your fans for info to be able to circle them. Just let Analytics create the circles for you...
thenonhacker
You didn’t know this:
● You can also target your Facebook Pages Posts to specific audiences by Language.
● Facebook lets you know which countries your fans come from. Britney Spears will find this useful.
PLUS:
● If Google+ has a new feature, Facebook will simply copy it. And so, we Facebook Page Admins have more reason to use our Facebook Pages as the primary business page.
● I will still create a Google+ version of my Facebook Pages, for the same reason I would create Twitter Accounts for my Facebook Pages. And then use a web service that lets you crosspost among them.
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The Evolution Of The Blogger: Which Type Of Blogger Are You? [Infographic] - SocialTimes.com:
Blogging has roots all the way back to the early 1990s, when forum members would keep accounts of their day-to-day activities and in 1994 the first real blog, Justin’s Links, hit the web. Blogging has come a long way since the ‘90s, with over 156 million public blogs in existence as of February 2011. Everyone is blogging, from moms to techies to artists and politicians, and a fun infographic from Flowtown examines the blogging ecosystem.
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We begin with the early categories of bloggers—the Emo Blogger (that favored LiveJournal), the Angry Blogger (that used the web as an outlet), and the obsessive blogger (that wrote about a single area or topic). These blogger types paved the way for a variety of other bloggers—political bloggers, travel, tech and food bloggers and more which, in turn, paved the way for Apple fan boy bloggers, gaming bloggers, activists, DIY, fashion, art & design and other topics. Today we’ve got bloggers blogging about virtually everything.
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Salesforce CEO: Facebook Is Leading The Direction For Where ‘We’re Going As An Industry’ | TechCrunch:
While Benioff’s tone has definitely tempered somewhat since OpenWorld in relation to Ellison and Oracle, it has not changed in terms of what the CEO sees as the future of his company and the future of the enterprise industry as a whole. Enterprise has to be, needs to be: Social.
What do I mean by that? Well, unsurprising for anyone who is familiar with Salesforce, Benioff has a big old man crush on Facebook.
“I really think that Facebook is becoming a vision of what the consumer operating system is”, he said. “Everything I want, I’m beginning to see on Facebook”.
The CEO was speaking largely in relation to Spotify, which he says has become his favorite music service, a quicker transition than he’s made to any other platform in the recent future. Having the Facebook UI built into Spotify is incredible, he said, allowing friends and colleagues to what he’s listening to in realtime — was inspiring to him.
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Social Media Comparison Charts:
That’s why we’ve put together this comprehensive package of social media comparison charts to make it easy to provide the information your customers and clients are probably already looking for.
We’ve done all the home work and the groundwork for you. In fact, we’ve broken things down into 15 categories and compared a variety of tools and sites amongst detailed criteria. From social networks and micro-blogging to photo and video sharing, we’ve got you covered.
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Snip.it Lets You Collect and Share Web Content That Matters to You [INVITES]:
If you want to collect and share web content, and express your opinion in a structured fashion, where would you turn?
Certainly not Facebook or Twitter, says Ramy Adeeb, founder of Snip.it, a startup launching this week in private beta to help you collect web content you want to save with your voice.
Adeeb, formerly a principal at Khosla Ventures, founded Snip.it as a place where people can create collections. They’re comprised of content and opinions — appropriately termed “snips” — and they can be saved privately, or shared with friends and strangers.
Snip.it users clip content as they browse the web, just as they would do using any other bookmarklet, add a little commentary of their own and then plop their digital discoveries into collections.
You can think of collections as elegantly styled, topic-themed buckets for storing the web content that relates to your interests. And you can use your collections for personal reference or as curation tools to publicly demonstrate your expertise and subject-matter knowledge.
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