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Can anyone make sense of Google+? http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=15826I'm starting to get confused about "social media". Personally I don't really care a whole lot what all of us are doing every minute of the day, but with all the activity, I sense I may be missing the point.
What is a sane view of social media? -- Owen
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Speaking of which:
A pie chart of what happens on line in 60 seconds: 60 Seconds - Things That Happen On Internet Every Sixty Seconds [Infographic] Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries 6,600+ pictures are uploaded on Flickr 600 videos are uploaded on YouTube videos, amounting to 25+ hours of content 695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on Social Networking site Facebook 70 New domains are registered 168,000,000+ emails are sent 320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on Social Networking site Twitter iPhone applications are downloaded more than13,000 times 20,000 new posts are published on Micro-blogging platform tumbler Popular web browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1700 times Popular blogging platform Wordpress is downloaded more than 50 times WordPress Plugins aredownloaded more than 125 times 100 accounts are created on professional networking site LinkedIn 40 new Questions are asked on YahooAnswers.com 100+ questions are asked on Answers.com 1 new article is published on Associated Content, the world’s largest source of community-created content 1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary.com 1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist 370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by Skype users 13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora 1,600+ reads are made on Scribd, the largest social reading publishing company On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
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Hola I have read a couple of articles where some researchers conclude that Internet is used to make public the private things and allows to establish non-deep and non-strong relations with many people (quantity not quality in relations). Probably Internet is the space where each human tries to be what wants to be: the center of the universe. It's not that bad, It's natural. That's what social networks were made for (Para eso se hicieron las redes sociales). 2011/6/29 Owen Densmore <[hidden email]>
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Looking at the Google+ articles, it does sound like Wave was. Maybe second time is a charm!
However, having just started using Gmail in ernest, I was surprised just how far behind I was in G-Tech. There are a LOT of good pieces there.
In particular, I downloaded the Video Chat plugin which apparently now works on all the "supported browsers" and OSs. (They broke on snow leopard but have fixed it .. needs a reboot now but that's it.) It actually could compete with Skype, maybe.
It has a couple of advantages, mainly that it already has contacts, mail, text chat etc. And Skype is rather complicated, oddly enough, so on the ease of use front, it might be easier for folks to just add Video Chat to their gmail than to wrestle with the Skype interface.
So maybe the noise I was concerned about earlier really is just the same old ecology and trying to fit them all together seamlessly. We'll see. -- Owen
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