Comments on: Of social bookmarking, relevance and the needstream. http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/07/of-social-bookmarking-relevance-and-the-needstream/ Asking the awkward questions so you don't have to. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:48:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: links for 2008-07-04 - Fast.Fwd.Innov@tion http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/07/of-social-bookmarking-relevance-and-the-needstream/comment-page-1/#comment-380 links for 2008-07-04 - Fast.Fwd.Innov@tion Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:31:44 +0000 http://colinwalker.me.uk/?p=178#comment-380 [...] Colin Walker » Of social bookmarking, relevance and the needstream. Interesting thought about the term “needstream” that should be one of the groundswell items of social media. (tags: socialmedia fastfwdinnovation) [...] [...] Colin Walker » Of social bookmarking, relevance and the needstream. Interesting thought about the term “needstream” that should be one of the groundswell items of social media. (tags: socialmedia fastfwdinnovation) [...]

]]> By: Mark Dykeman http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/07/of-social-bookmarking-relevance-and-the-needstream/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Mark Dykeman Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:22:08 +0000 http://colinwalker.me.uk/?p=178#comment-383 I'm not sure that I've gained a whole lot from the use of social bookmarking as a content producer other than some page views, but it's an extremely high bounce rate. I've gotten more and better results from a link from a blog, at least in terms of increasing my subscriber count. As a user, occasionally I do find something interesting but typically I don't spend a lot of time on one of those sites, either. I'm not sure that I've gained a whole lot from the use of social bookmarking as a content producer other than some page views, but it's an extremely high bounce rate. I've gotten more and better results from a link from a blog, at least in terms of increasing my subscriber count. As a user, occasionally I do find something interesting but typically I don't spend a lot of time on one of those sites, either.

]]> By: chris http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/07/of-social-bookmarking-relevance-and-the-needstream/comment-page-1/#comment-382 chris Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:20:40 +0000 http://colinwalker.me.uk/?p=178#comment-382 The first part of this post is good and I totally agree with: <br><br>"future focus will be on smaller, more localised social networks"<br><br>And indeed dangerous too, small focussed groups can readily turn into extreme pots of shared interest, and manifest ideological amplification, everyone thinking the same thing, and rubbing shoulders with each other, like minded attracted to like minded.. same as any religious cult. If you are in your are in, if you not you are out.. we don't like your views.. dangerous.. very. <br><br>The trouble is that the internet may become less diverse, and actually more extreme and not the utopia of democracy so many think... possibly? Research has proven groups will self-segment themselves time and time again... The first part of this post is good and I totally agree with:

“future focus will be on smaller, more localised social networks”

And indeed dangerous too, small focussed groups can readily turn into extreme pots of shared interest, and manifest ideological amplification, everyone thinking the same thing, and rubbing shoulders with each other, like minded attracted to like minded.. same as any religious cult. If you are in your are in, if you not you are out.. we don't like your views.. dangerous.. very.

The trouble is that the internet may become less diverse, and actually more extreme and not the utopia of democracy so many think… possibly? Research has proven groups will self-segment themselves time and time again…

]]> By: Jon-Paul Busoli http://colinwalker.me.uk/2008/07/of-social-bookmarking-relevance-and-the-needstream/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Jon-Paul Busoli Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:42:47 +0000 http://colinwalker.me.uk/?p=178#comment-381 I think that there is not much to be gained through Social Bookmarking services apart from "cloud bookmarking". If most average users are like myself, they share their bookmarks because they use the service as replacement to the browser book marker. It simply doesn't take any more effort on my part to share these bookmarks to the rest of the world. Primarily though, these bookmarks are for me first and "you" second.<br><br>Services like Friendfeed are blurring this line though, I find it more difficult to differentiate between the social bookmarking and content posts of others. <br><br>It's all blurring into one stream. I think that there is not much to be gained through Social Bookmarking services apart from “cloud bookmarking”. If most average users are like myself, they share their bookmarks because they use the service as replacement to the browser book marker. It simply doesn't take any more effort on my part to share these bookmarks to the rest of the world. Primarily though, these bookmarks are for me first and “you” second.

Services like Friendfeed are blurring this line though, I find it more difficult to differentiate between the social bookmarking and content posts of others.

It's all blurring into one stream.

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