July 15 17 Comments
I’m a webrat. I literally live on the internet. I’ve signed up for more web 2.0/social media services than I can remember. I love finding new things and new ways to interact and share stuff online. But even though I’ve signed up for a bunch there are only a few that I use on daily basis. Lets take a look shall we?
Facebook
Oh Facebook. How I love/hate thee. It’s almost mandatory to be there these days. It’s a nice tool to stay in contact with friends and relatives and an excellent one to advertise events. But I’m sure you know all about it.
Flickr
I’ve been on Flickr for at least three years, sharing photos, work and images. It’s hands down the best image and photo hosting out there. The best part is that it’s dirt cheap, only $25 a year for a pro account. The only thing I’d wish for is the ability to allow public comments on your account.
twitter
I signed up on twitter in February 2007 and then deleted my account after not quite “getting it”. Then I signed up again in 2008 and got the good twitter folks to restore my username. It’s really simple. You have 140 characters. Go wild! After gaining new contacts and exploring the possibilities of the service I’ve come to cherish it and use it almost every day.
tumblr
Tumblr is a kind of micro bloggin service too but allows for a wider use of media and longer posts. It has become very popular for photo and image blogs. For a while it was my only form of blog where I would post quotes, videos and funny images but not much content. In the future I will use tumblr as a place where I share inspiration and other images.
LinkedIn
I haven’t spent much time on LinkedIn to be honest. I do however recognize the potential the tool has for making new contacts and maintaining professional relationships with clients, colleagues and co workers. Note to self: Make more use of LinkedIn.
Delicious
The Delicious social bookmarking service saved my life. Up until I found Delicious I was using the browsers to bookmark every site I wanted to keep the URL of. Needless to say it became a big chunk of steaming mess even though I tried applying a sort of GTD process to the whole thing. Enter Delicious, it jus makes everything much easier and with proper tagging you will never lose a link to an important website again.
Behance
Behance is a place where you can showcase your work in a social media environment. You can jon circles, comment, give ratings, interact and much more. A great place for making new, like-minded contacts. I just have to be more active there.
vimeo
I love Vimeo. It’s just so smooth and tasty and the video quality is great. I plan on buying myself a digital camera that can record HD videos and do some experiments. It will be a while but I plan on it. The 6 videos I have there now are all from my Canon SD1000 camera that recently got stolen on my trip to Barcelona.
YouTube
Even though I have an account there with few cell phone videos I don’t really use YouTube anymore. I much prefer Vimeo for hosting video. The only exception is when I want to host gaming videos. YouTube allows it, Vimeo doesn’t.
last.fm
I, like most other human beings, love listening to music. Last.fm, accompanied by plugins or the amazing CoverSutra (which I use) is a great tool for sharing your playlist and analyzing your music habits. Apparently múm and The Cinematic Orchestra are competing for the top spot as my all time most played bands.
BoxedUp
I’ve been using BoxUp for a while as my universal material wishlist. The idea is to hold a list of my material “wants” and maybe, just maybe publish it on my social networks for upcoming birthdays. haha! I’ve been trying to find a similar service that offers better usability and interface. If you have a suggestions please comment below.
iusethis
Haven’t updated this list in a while but thought I would include it here. Iusethis is mostly a service that lets you know about new and hot applications and important software updates. The social aspect of it lets you pick your applications and see how popular it is. Then there are comments and the usual stuff.
gogoyoko
I can’t seem to link to my profile yet as this website is still in beta. I am very excited about this project. gogoyoko, which opened in Iceland last week, is a social music marketplace where music fans can buy directly from the artists. Artists set the price for their music and get 100% of the sales profit and even earn share of the site’s advertising revenue.
Google
Yep. What’s more official than a Google profile? Doesn’t do much but promises to help me get found on the internet. When searching Google I have a problem finding my own profile. Maybe I’m just daft! I wonder how many page visits it gets.
And there you have it. My social media landscape.