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Blog It

Finally a Facebook app that might be useful!

Blog It which is powered by Typepad is an app that lets you post to your blog directly from within Facebook and nearly a dozen different blogging platforms (including TypePad, Movable Type, Vox, Blogger, and WordPress).

http://www.typepad.com/features/blogit.html

Making time to socialise online

Real People Don't Have Time for Social Media according to Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb ... is this really true?  She was referring to a post on Museum 2.0.

 

What's all the fuss about? Check out a shot of my desktop at 2pm.  With this little selection of apps, I can flick through my RSS feeds, share the relevant links with our MindShare Worldwide network on del.icio.us, post to a number of blogs on our Typepad account, Twitter as part of our MSInteraction team using Twhirl. Just in case I can't get enough Twitter with Twhirl I can liaise with my own Twitter network on GTalk IM, call the New York office for free on Skype and conduct change order activity with a group of freelancers on MSN whilst receiving all of my emails via Blackberry (including any updates that have recently happened on Facebook, Plaxo, Linked in, Basecamp etc.).

As a real person (and part geek) I reckon you can be a social media "content provider" in less than an hour a week.

A lot of very big numbers

You can't argue with the power of MSN Messenger when you see numbers like this:

We explore a dataset of 30 billion conversations generated by 240 million distinct users over one month. We found that approximately 90 million distinct Messenger accounts were accessed each day and that these users produced about 1 billion conversations, with approximately 7 billion exchanged messages per day. 180 million of the 240 million active accounts had at least one conversation on the observation period. We found that 99% of the conversations occurred between 2 people, and the rest with greater numbers of participants. To our knowledge, our investigation represents the largest and most comprehensive study to date of presence and communications in an IM system. A recent report (6) estimated that approximately 12 billion instant messages are sent each day. Given the estimate and the growth of IM, we estimate that we captured approximately half of the world’s IM communication during the observation period.

Read the full report on Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network

Status updates overload? How about Friendfeed?

I stumbled across Friendfeed today(apologies if its old hat).

Its a site that helps you keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. So instead of wading through the ever-growing plethora of sites and apps that we all keep updated, you can use this one site to track what your mates are doing in all their fav places eg flickR, twitter, lastfm etc ....and vice-versa.

FriendFeed aggregates all of your activity from the sites you choose using web crawling technologies similar to those used by search engines.

Snagsta

Search and sharing combined.

Snagsta (now in its pre-alpha) phase is simply a website where users can store lists of their favourite things, places and experiences which they then can share with friends and other users.

The site allows you to create an unlimited numbers of lists on anything. e.g favourite books, movies, plays, hotels etc

Facebook launches Chat service

Facebook have announced the launch of an Instant Messaging service across the network. Whilst not revolutionary, it will further increase the social connectivity of the site giving added reason for users to be there at a time when user figures on the site are falling.

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