TheSocialGeeks: Recent Comments

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 17 - Facebook is the universe

Caleb Elston — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:27:18 GMT

Just a quick note. The new Facebook iPhone App will support video uploads as I predicted. (Damn I am good, lol)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/one-more-thing-the-new-facebook-iphone-app-will-allow-for-video-uploads-too/

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 16 - I want the Post, not Pre

Jesse Stay — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:53:13 GMT

No money was paid to anyone in this podcast to mention SocialToo. :-) Thanks for the great discussion guys!

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 14 - Two Personalities

Kitt — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:59:04 GMT

Just want to comment on the audio. Sounds great now...Thanks for the improvement.

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 14 - Two Personalities

Sarah Perez — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:55:21 GMT

I think you make a good point about using sites for different audiences and I agree that for some people this is fine.

However, in this day of information overload, if you want to promote your own content, you have to put yourself out there. You can no longer assume that people will type in "www.yourwebsite.com" to read/view/interact with whatever it is you've created. Instead, you need to make sure that people have an opportunity to see it, no matter where they are - Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, an RSS Reader, on their mobile phone, etc. Simply stating "sorry, if you want to follow me, you have to use X" no longer works.

Facebook needs to do a better just with letting people create public personas though - these new public profiles are half-a**ed and broken.

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 14 - Two Personalities

Ibrahim — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:16:17 GMT

Very informative discussion. Regarding integration of networks, isn't it in Facebook's best interest for Twitter not to work well with Facebook? It seems like your paradigm is that all of these networking sites should work together to serve your social networking needs. But each of these sites also wants you to be their customer and not their competition's customer. They want you generating data on their site so that they can sell ads to you based on that data. So for me, Twitter and Facebook have different functions. I used to update Facebook statuses with the Twitter app, but I came to find the issue that Sarah raised: it wasn't always relevant to the Facebook audience. Facebook statuses weren't designed to accept links, hashtags and other media. It was a different philosophy. It was always more personal. This is evidenced by the fact that people still add 'is' to their Facebook status. Twitter users have shed this all together, because Twitter is a public profile. The fact that we actively block some people from our Facebook statuses proves that the status is not always meant to be public.

Sarah's assumption seems to be that redundancy across these different sites is a good thing. But if people are your fan, they're going to find your post in one place, probably on Twitter, first. So what's the use of seeing a link post in three different places? More interesting would be to use the sites differently, non-redundantly so that fans visit each of the sites for different reasons. One of the first questions you ask when designing a message is, who is my audience?

Twitter and Facebook create captive audiences, but different kinds of captive audiences. You talk to those audience in different ways. Facebook to me is a network of people I've met in real life. I usually don't friend people I haven't met more than twice. Twitter is mostly people I don't know in person. It's designed that way. After 1000 followers or so, no one is going to know all of their followers personally. So the two sites have distinctly different functions and I think they'll continue to grow in different directions.

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 4 - Feedly-ing up Corvida

Shreya — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:17:09 GMT

Very good review of Feedly! From your conversation, it sounds exciting; I use Google Reader all the time. Feedly should be a good fit.
I like the feature where Feedly imports conversations from FF for a post.

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 13 - No spit zone

Kitt — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:28:04 GMT

Hey guy's..I really like the content of your podcasts. But, they sound horrible! Can you please improve the sound quality? Just asking :\

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 1 - Skip To (the) luu

Lead — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:35:17 GMT

I've been hearing about Tuluu few months ago but I was so busy that I even forgot what it's all about! Great site review you have here. Now I must get an invite. :)

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 11 - The Overachiever

Wayne Sutton — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:55:08 GMT

Hey guys, sorry I missed the podcast, yes UNC won, didn't watch the entire game had some other things to do too. But you all did a great job, I enjoyed it.

Going to do my best to make the next one!

Comment on TheSocialGeeks Episode 2 - Mento my info

Mitchell McKenna — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:15:36 GMT

Just started listening to TheSocialGeeks and thought it was cool that it was cool that you reviewed my fav social bookmarking service.

Just a couple months after you reviewed it they came out with the next version which solved many of the problems you found. info: http://blog.mento.info/

My favorite capabilities include...
- auto post bookmarks to friendfeed
- auto backup bookmarks to del.icio.us
- builtin screencapture pics to go with bookmark
- firefox extension
- “plus” reward system on friend’s bookmarks
- auto detects tags
- builtin twitter your bookmark