Didd it

Life is more than financial crisis and career. Didit is a social website for experiences to share. To inspire and have fun. Remember:We are living in a society, not in a market.

Forget Facebook, think “elite”

“Social Network” sounds like “we are all equal”. But some want to be more equal. So they would choose Affluence.com instead of Facebook. But real affluencial guy might ask someone to surf for them…just wondering.

“Du kummst ned rain”: Total Prestige

Who says that online communities is for students and other have-nots only? Right. Total Prestige is invitation only. For the things in life that only 50+ lifted zombies can afford.

StudiVZ? Ville dod!

Der grossartige Peter Turi munkelt Ungutes für StudiVZ. Der Holzbrinck-Verlag denkt über den Verkauf des Studenten-Social-Networks nach. Na prima, zuerst teuer einkaufen und alles besser wissen, dann mit Werbemüll das Network in den Boden fahren, und nun nix wie weg. Laut hauseigenem Wirtschaftsblättchen könnte man sich ein Zusammengehen mit Facebook vorstellen. Jaja, vorstellen kann ich mir auch viel.

Facebook kann die Microsoft-Yahoo-Tour fahren: Das Ding seelenruhig zerschellen sehen und dann die leckeren Teilchen aus den Trümmern für einen Apfel und ein Ei kaufen. Das nennt man unter Gesangesbrüdern low hanging fruit.

How to follow a discussion these days?

Back in 2005/ 2006 there was a blog as a linear stream of ideas written by – in most cases – a single blogger. Given the blog was open for trackbacks and comments one was able to follow all reactions by subscribing to a simple chronological string of ideas. There was that one place where the discussion was hosted and linked together.

Here comes the Twitterification, friendfeeding, and network socialization of macro and micro publishing in 2007/ 2008: Harald Taglinger published an entry here on the multi-author morphem last week. As I am an author as well and automatically feed the blog as a whole to my friendfeed, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Plaxo profiles – amongst others – Ben Loos comes across the post and comments Harald T’s entry on my (Harald F’s) Plaxo account (cp. above). Let me close the circle by reposting it here.

The question arises: Who else is contributing to the discussion? Maybe someone saw the post shared via one author’s friendfeed and left a comment there, being dugg by a third person and shouted to a friend who shared with a comment on Google Reader to be Pownced, Multiplied, Twittered, and Sphered?

Difficult and chaotic times we live in. As we always did. Remember how hell broke loose when the printing press was invented?

What is the solution?

[Update: Just to make sure that everyone noticing the new screenshot on my flickr photostream can go back to this post, I added a link from flickr to morphem there. As Ted Nelson put it: "HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT - ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins."]

Who says Advertising is Non-Social

Soacial Network users do have a far higher acceptance of advertsing than thought. StudiVZ hat sich da vielleicht auch ein wenig dumm benommen, meine Herren von G&J). Perhaps. Following this study of AN ADVERTISING AGENCY 76 percent of the 1,006 people surveyed said they didn’t mind seeing ads when they logged-in to Facebook, MySpace or the other social media sites they frequent. 49 percent of respondents said that they have made a purchase based on a recommendation found on a social networking site, while 40 percent have made a purchase based on advertising found on social networking sites.
I would say: wishful thinking.

De Bono nisi bono

Pech gehabt. Bono, der kleinwüchsige Schreihals von U2 amüsiert sich mit Mädels im Bikini. Die fotografieren das und packen es auf Facebook aus. Wenn auch nur für Freunde sichtbar. Pech, dass die Freunde dem Netzwerk New York angeschlossen sind. Und da haben eine Millionen User Zugriff. Merke:
Wenn Du tust an die Mädels fummeln, schau drauf, wo die sich tun tummeln.