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September 18, 2007

Twitter / bibi_org

(Almost) All the cool kids are now using micro-blogging tools to communicate with friends, family and / or readers. I'm using too, because I can't stop joining to social networks and all kind of web2.0 tools and sites. I've joined to Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and some others that I don't remember now. If you are using any of those sites, fell free to add me.


However, I'm not crazy enough to update all those sites. I'm "officially" using Twitter to "micro-blog", to share links I don't post here, like news about technology, events and some other things. Since its integration with GTalk is easy, I'm using the IM to add new messages. I'm also using it more frequently, because my friends are there, and many blogs and sites are using it to share links, news and content too.

Pownce : Bianca B.

I'm using Pownce more to test its features, for now, than to communicate with other people. The site/tool provides a nearest idea of "micro-blogging" than Twitter, in my humble opinion. It's now accepting sharing files, profiles, videos and photos. I just don't use it more, because I forget to open the site, and I don't want to install the software required in this old computer. By the way, I have ten invitations to Pownce that I would like to donate to the regular readers of this blog. If you want one, just post a comment asking for it.


And Jaiku. Well, I don't use it because I don't remember to do it, and I don't have time enough to keep updating it. For those who never use it: it's easy to create an account, easy to use it, and it has some nice features, like add your feeds and send messages using your IM software. The feeds feature can be great and terrible: it can to keep your friends up-to-date, while it automatically adds new info to your profile, and this can be also means overload them with information.

August 16, 2006

Pokemon and Hitchcock

Are you tired of sites and blogs with photos of tiny/cute/adorable animals? Not yet? Wait, there is a new one: The Cute Project - Collecting the World's Cuteness! On the contrary of the other cute sites, this one is a social software. That means that its content is created by the admins and the users. Updated daily, the goal is not only to develop an ever growing collection of overwhelmingly cute art, but to build a community of people (Cutizens!) who appreciate and love to share their captured cuteness.

Anyone can registry there and contribute submitting your own cute stuff: photos, games, videos, art or sites that you know. My favourite is part is that everything submitted there receives the credit, including the link to the original image or video. I already made three contributions to the site, so why don't to you that too?

February 24, 2006

I know that link blogs don't have that many comments, but I'm trying to make my blog entries a bit more interesting to attract more commenters. I'm not sure if it's working or whether this blog has more comments now because it has more readers. The other technique that I'm trying is to reply to most of the comments, even if they don't need any answer. My next step will be to try to apply some of those 10 Tips for Attracting More Comments. It's an interesting article for bloggers and I'm going to start with the first tip: Ask.

This blog is open for comments. I like comments, specially if they are positive ones, with new ideas, links, suggestions or nice words, who doesn't love that? Comments gives me an idea of what people like, what kind of content people appreciate, issues that I may research, etc. I don't answer them all, but I read all the comments and I visit the blogs when the readers put a link to them.

coComment

Some of you have noticed that I started to use a comment tool called coComment. On the left side of my main page there is blogbox, with a "miniature copy" of my comments. There you see only comments from my blog, because I didn't see any other blog that I read using it. That's why I'm inviting more people to test it.

coComment is free, easy to install, easy to configure it, it will enable you to efficiently track your comments and conversations with others across the blogosphere and you can sign the feed of your conversations. It also works with Flickr and have an integration with the blog tools Word Press, TextPattern and Serendipity. They are planning more features, like integrating it in the comment form.

January 14, 2006

Blogbinders

Do you remember of Blogbinders, that helps you turn your blog into a bound book? I don't know what happened to that site, but I found something similar: BlogCollector. It's a free and neat tool to backup your blog and publish it into a book. It supports MSN Spaces, Blogger/Blogspot and other blogs through RSS 2.0, exporting them as PDF. The free version has a limit on the max number of entries and export pages, but choose the pay version and you get support to images, export in PDF, HTML or RTF, no limitations, and more features. The good part? It's available to download for Windows, Mac, Linux and Sun.


Blogracy

Blogracy is a kind of social software for blogs. The idea behind Blogracy is to create a community where its structure emerges from the interactions of all humans involved. The score a blog gets is the sum of its own contribution and the interest it generates in other users. Jorge, from o zombie comeu o meu blog, invited me but I added just few blogs to the page of my blog there, because it's necessary to reserve some time to do searches, and add blogs to it.


egoSurf

Do you need a massage on your site/blog's ego? Or you are just looking for something funny? Try egoSurf. It helps massage the web publishers ego, and thereby maintain the cool equilibrium of the net itself. We search Goggle and find links to your blog. To make a search, enter your name, or expression, and the address of your blog. If the result isn't good enough for you select the "more options" and add del.icio.us, Yahoo, Technorati and/ or MSN. Do you like it? You can add a link to your blog and sign the feed for the search. (via Micro Persuasion)

January 08, 2006

Social Porn

Social Porn is a kind of digg but for porn links, all the porn that you want, if you want some. A collaborative p0rn linking site where users (expert wankers) publish, select and comment the most sexy & erotic galleries on the Internet. You can subscribe to the feeds, search by category, submit a new one but there isn't a bookmarklet yet. The site is ok, but not so the links, the external links are all NSFW. (via digg)

August 11, 2005

Jimbo's Problems: A Free Culture Manifesto: 10 Challenges for thee Free Culture Movement.

1. Free the Encyclopedia!
2. Free the Dictionary!
3. Free the Curriculum!
4. Free the Music!
5. Free the Art!
6. Free the File Formats!
7. Free the Maps!
8. Free the Product Identifiers!
9. Free the TV Listings!
10. Free the Communities!

Read the complete article here and more notes here.

July 05, 2005

Yummy! Personal PDF Library is a social site where people can find and post PDF archives. There are books, documents, texts, manuals, stuff to you make and more free PDF files. Create an account to add more PDFs, save the files to a personal library and add tags to any file. You don't need to join to read or download the archives and you can sign the feed. BTW, here is the link to my library there, with The Beatles Complete Songbook.

May 17, 2005

Bloglines Weather forecasts

Bloglines just launched Weather forecasts and now you can add it by city/state or zipcode. To add weather forecast to your feeds click the "Add" link from your My Feeds display, and then select the "Weather" link. Forecasts are available from throughout the world, and like all of Bloglines, this new feature is localized in the 8 different languages that Bloglines supports.

I use the ForecastFox as an extension on Firefox but I also signed that new feed to my Bloglines. The feed shows the weather prevision for the next seven days and can choose if you want to see the metric system or not.

May 09, 2005

Most Popular Movies on Orkut

5 Must Watch Movies - Thanks Orkut! In the article the author describes how he used Perl to generated a list of most cited books and movies from the profiles of the people who are connected to him at Orkut. It's an interesting and clever way to make these lists. BTW, the most popular books on Orkut are:
1. Fountain Head;
2. Da Vinci Code;
3. The Godfather;
4. Catch 22;
5. Harry Potter Series.

And the 10 most popular movies are:
1. Life is Beautiful;
2. Matrix;
3. DDLJ;
4. Shawshank Redemption;
5. Sholay;
6. Forrest Gump;
7. Gladiator;
8. Anand;
9. Braveheart;
10. Titanic. (via MAKE)

April 21, 2005

Amy Gahran from Contentious wrote a very good article about two great social tools: Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together.

April 19, 2005

Indy

Indy is a music discovery program that learns what you like, and plays more of it. And it's free.

Indy makes it easy for you to find great new independent music. Just download Indy and double-click: as it plays songs, you rate what you hear. Indy quickly learns what you like and gets really smart about sending you more music you'll like. Let Indy help you find your place in the collective conciousness as you help other people find theirs.

It seems very, cool, is a free software but available only for Windows. In the same entry on Boing Boing they talk about Last.FM also:
Last.fm is a personalised online radio station that plays the right music to the right people. Songs spread from listener to listener.
You get your own online radio station that you can fill up with the music you like. This information is used to find users who are similar to you. With this information Last.fm can play you new artists and songs you might like.

I didn't test the Indy by I'm using the Last.fm - it is a kind of social software where people can upload their songs to hear there, hear the radio station of other users, join to groups, search for people with similar tastes and discover great new songs and groups (I found many fabulous groups there). You can select your favourites, search for songs, groups, ban songs from your list, add your favourite albums and groups to a list.

One more great thing on Last.FM: to use your account there you just need a browser and a MP3 player - you don't need any previous installation. The bad things on Last.fm: you can't choose songs sequence and after a month you have to contribute if you want to keep with your personal radio or pay from the begging if you want. There are other extra features for people that donate. As I said, I'm there if someone wants to find me, just for curiosity.

April 18, 2005

Two very interesting articles about social bookmarking: Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review and Social Bookmarking Tools (II): A Case Study - Connotea. They talked about tags and the tools: CiteULike, Connotea, del.icio.us, Flickr, Frassle, Furl, Simpy, Spurl and unalog. (via del.icio.us/popular)

April 08, 2005

Ourmedia

Is Ourmedia one more social site? Almost. It is one more social site, a place where you can find people, add them as friends, share information, create a blog and sign it via RSS. But the idea is share media and free storage:

The idea is pretty simple: People who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media can store their stuff for free on Ourmedia's servers forever, as long as they're willing to share their works with a global audience. [...] Ourmedia will consist of video (blog video, music videos, television-style reports, documentaries, underground films, grass roots political ads, animation, machinima), audio (interviews with authors, oral family histories, readings of properly licensed book chapters), original music, photographs, ebooks, games, software and more. You decide what goes up on the site.

How they do this? Well, they have good sponsors and partners: Internet Archive that provides free storage space and free bandwidth; Bryght provides the free hosted service; Creative Commons; Socialtext and Broadband Mechanics.

One more great thing: everytime you upload an archive on Ourmedia you can choose a Creative Commons license and add many information about it: categories, description, keywords, notes and more information about the copyright. Take a look there: there are great videos, music, texts, images, audio an the idea is fantastic.

BTW, I created an account few days after their announce the site, but I don't have cool things to upload there. Just in case that someone ask my nick name there is Bibi too. So why am I there? Curiosity, because I'm in everywhere (at least in the most popular social networks sites) an for fun (great stuff to see and hear). See you there.

March 31, 2005

Yahoo!360°

I'm testing Yahoo! 360°. It seems very cool, works fine, you can classify you contacts in categories and import your contacts from Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Address Book and Microsoft Outlook. It has integration with many, maybe all, Yahoo! services: My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Music.

As all the new social network sites you can create a blog, share cool links or ideas with the Blast, share photos, local reviews, add friends, listen LAUNCHcast music station, create and share lists of your favorite books, movies, music, show to your friends, or everybody your groups on Yahoo!.

Steve Rubel wrote a mini review about Yahoo!360° on his page there, but you can read it also on Micro Persuasion. Read also the initial impression of Yahoo! 360° of Danah Boyd, Marc Hedlund and Clay Shirky reviews.

BTW, the invites are limited to 100 and that is one more reason for just invite people that you know. And that is what I will do. So, if I don't know you I will not send you an invite. Sorry (I had some problems with this on my Gazzag entry). But don't worry, sooner or later someone that you know will invited you. Anyway, you can find me there on my Yahoo! 360° page.

March 24, 2005

Flickr with gummi

Why Flickr is so cool? Why there are always good news and more stuff about it? What makes Flickr unique?. Read the BBC's article I'll show you mine... about this wonderful social software, its fantastic features and why you will become a fan if you will start to use it. (Thanks for the link Bertrand)

March 15, 2005

Jon Udell talks about language evolution in del.icio.us in a very nice video (screencast). This is one more change to you understand del.icio.us. (via Micro Persuasion)

January 27, 2005

Online Social Networks

OSN2005 will be a summit for all those interested in working with social networking processes, tools, and media. In addition to attending many workshops, panels, and presentations by leading experts and practitioners, attendees will have the opportunity to be part of a community with a significant role in defining the future direction of online social networking. If you want to help shape this industry, come to OSN2005!
This sounds very interesting with all those important people and I have been researching social networks a lot lately. I'm really thinking about. (via Emmy's New Weblog)

January 19, 2005

There are two new articles about photo sharing, on Wired and The Social Software Weblog. They talk about Flickr, Smugmug, Buzznet, HeyPix, Shutterfly and Yahoo!Photos. Btw, Picasa 2, a Google tool to help you to share images, is out. picasa_2.jpg

January 14, 2005

Maybe the Social Networking Services Meta List could help you. A fantastic list divide by session themes and if you know one that is not in that list you can suggest there. A "little" big? Not really - the Brazilians social networks are not in this list.

January 10, 2005

Gazzag

Gazzag é mais uma rede social. Não direi que é a mais nova, porque nesse momento uma outra pode estar começando. Sim, mais uma rede social, como se já não houvessem muitas. O pessoal pode xingar, falar mal e meu mesma estou penando para fazer qualquer coisa, mas o Orkut com certeza é a única a qual sou fiel. O pessoal que entrou agora não sabe como era divertido lá no início. Aliás, boa parte do pessoal que entrou agora só quer bagunçar. Bom vou parar por aqui antes que comece a reclamar de toda aquela molecada sem noção alguma que por lá está.

Voltando ao Gazzag, que tem um péssimo nome para pronunciar, fui convidada hoje para me juntar e vi que já há pelo menos 66415 pessoas, como diz o site. O que ele diz é que estou conectada a esse número de pessoas através de 8 amigos e amigos de amigos. Amigos só um, porque ela me convidou, e nem vou me dar ao trabalho de procurar por mais. Entrei para testar e só.

Minhas reclamações já começam no cadastro. A clássica lista de interesses lá já tem opções, basta selecionar. Péssimas opções, limitadas a 3 opções e colocam tv e filme juntos. As opções de "moro" também são péssimas. O melhor foi colocar Agnóstico como religião e depois selecionar "prática religiosa": coloquei que sou uma praticante eventual, porque não sou tão dedicada assim e nem fico pregando isso por aí.

Mas o que há por lá? Numa rápida xeretada encontrei uma ferramenta para criar eventos, uma para criar um blog bem simples, uma para criar álbuns divididos por temas (mas há limite de espaço). Hé também aquelas coisas de sempre como comunidades, um email com uma estrutura simples de composição, pastas, rascunhos e lixeira; uma busca no mesmo esquema Orkut; lista de amigos por classificação e opção no modo de exibição; ajuda e convites.

A ajuda deles é bem feita e cheia de explicações, como Por que não posso enviar mensagens para todos os usuários do Gazzag?, feita para aqueles espíritos de porco que precisam de simacol. Qualquer um pode entrar lá, não é preciso convite algum e você pode importar seu contatos direto do Orkut. Não, obrigada.

Como quase todas as redes sociais que eu vi a entrada é proibida para menores. Mas de que adianta dizer isso se as pessoas não lêem e os adolescentes entram em massa e não sabem argumentar quando falamos que é proibido? Essa é uma reclamação sobre uma experiência que passei em uma das minhas comunidades. Depois dessa sou contra a permissão de menores nesses sites. Quer entrar entra, mas fica quietinho, não precisa espalhar aos quatro cantos a idade. Eu fazia isso, só que parece que os adolescentes em geral não perceberam isso no Orkut.

Como nós gostamos desse negócio de redes sociais, não se preocupe em entrar no Gazzag e ir criar uma comunidade: faça uma busca primeiro. Você vai se surpreender pela quantidade de coisas criadas por lá. E como se sabe o pessoal não procura mesmo há mais de uma comunidade com o mesmo nome ou finalidade. Sobre pessoas que amam chocolate há 5 até o momento. Até as malditas "hate communities" já existem por lá. Ai ai, os sites mudam de nome, mas a bagunça é a mesma. A busca parece que funciona direito, mas na lista de comunidades por categoria achei falta de um número na página, pelo menos para saber quantas páginas faltam numa lista com 1400 comunidades.

Há alguns pequenos detalhes para quem quer se aventurar por lá. Quando você for olhar as listas das comunidades olhe apenas uma por vez, porque há um pequeno bug que faz com que as demais páginas que você abrir sejam relacionadas com o tema anterior. Nas comunidades a mesmo coisa, na segunda janela ação será referente à primeira comunidade. E aos viciados em scrap uma má notícia: não há nem sinal disso por lá.

Então se você é uma daqueles que está cansado do Orkut, dê uma passada e quem sabe integre o Gazzag. Não é a única opção e enquanto escrevia esta entrada recebi o convite para mais uma comunidade virtual. Falo dela depois. Eu garanto, quando você descobrir um desses sites de networking que é a sua cara vai amar. Encontre seu amigos, convide, reencontre, fará mais alguns e divirta-se.

Update: Por favor não me peçam convites porque eu não vou convidar ninguém. Só mantenho na minha lista de amigos quem eu conheço. Desculpe, mas há dezenas de pessoas que podem enviar um convite para você e mais cedo ou mais tarde algum amigo seu vai entrar lá e te convidar. Obrigada pela compreensão.

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