Our 10 Top Social Media Platforms / Tools
[SUMMARY—What are yours?]
(GBR) I fired an email round to the MediaSnackers trainers asking for their top ten social media platforms / tools (no stipulations—just a simple question).
Here's their responses:
Barney
• Skype
• vlc mediaplayer
• bubbl.us
• Azureus
• (if it lives up to the hype…) Slide Rocket is already one of my favourites (and it hasn't come out yet, am signed up for the Beta version)
• buzzword
• Facebook (love/hate thing)
• Google docs
• Wikipedia (great starting place for research)
• pbWiki
Bobbie
• igoogle
• RSS reader
• wordpress
• del.icio.us
• skype
• flickr
• google calender
• youtube
• myspace
• adium
Guy
• Netvibes—king of RSS readers, home of my to-do lists, etc
• Gmail—queen of email
• Tumblr—currently how I'm archiving interesting stuff rather than using delicious… Nice and simple, bookmarklet works well too
• Flickr—duke of photosharing sites, best example out there of how you can manage a huge disparate group of users and still get them to behave (cf. Youtube)
• Facebook—because I still love it no matter what the haterz say, and one day it or one of its siblings will approach a de facto "standard".
• Twitter—kind of for the same reason… I don't think it's necessarily that much cop yet but it's pretty cool on a theoretical / experimental level at the very least. They really should go for text-mad kids though.
• Skype—pretty much the only IM client out there that let me set up a group chat with my mates over eighteen months ago… and continue the chat to this day, providing 9-to-5 comfort to the tired and weary.
• Hype Machine—syndicates and streams MP3 blogs, pretty cool for finding new stuff, in the "hipster demographic" anyway.
• Bug Me Not—true altruistic crowdsourcing for the can't-be-bothered-to-signup generation
• This one bookmarklet——
• Ask Metafilter—wonderfully useful, endlessly interesting, 0% dicking about. Never ever use Yahoo Answers again.
Mark
• google reader
• buzzword
• Wordpress
• flickr
• Stixy
• twitter
• delicious
• Issuu
• Photoshop Express
• xtimeline
Mine
• Google Reader
• Evernote
• Skype
• Flickr
• SlideRocket
• Facebook (for now)
• Google Docs
• Blip
• Animoto
• XtimeLine
What are yours?
Filed by DK on May 29 2008
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