Social Media and the continuing rise of the community

[Graf1771]

Ok, I've been reading and visiting this forum for several years (check out my register date!) and although I don't write very often I like to keep track of what is being said... And I've been quite surprised at the lack of a dedicated Social Media section!

Over the last 6 - 12 months the explosion in Social Media across the internet has started to completely redefine how people are interacting and reacting to the online experience.

We all know about Facebook, MySpace, Bebo etc. and the communities that build around them but that is only the start - it seems every new site also needs a blog, a Twitter account, del.icio.us bookmarks, links from every article to Digg, Reddit, Mixx and all the other social bookmarking tools. You submit your new design to showcase sites, make sure everything validates to W3C standard xHTML / CSS (until the Google ads or OpenAds code ruins it). You create video diaries while you build the new site to put on YouTube and Hulu and create playlists of the music you listened to for inspiration on MyStrands, Last.fm and Pandora...

The latest phenomenon is the SMPR (social media press release) taking over from the traditional, boring text only press release this contains multimedia presentations, image files, PDF documents and everything else you can think of to get your message across (I should have more about this soon).

Erm, ok I seem to have lost my thread a bit here (it is a bit late on a Sunday night and I've been working all weekend) - I think my point was... Can we have a dedicated area for Social Media somewhere on the forum, perhaps incorporated with mobile web and web apps?

Thanks!

[kgun]

Syndication and Social Media Discussion Forum

What about security?

Social networks and browser differences.

[Graf1771]

Originally Posted by kgun

Syndication and Social Media Discussion Forum

Ah, yes, I seem to have completely missed that... Perhaps everyone should just ignore this post and I'll try and move some of it when I'm more awake!


I see that you're worried about the differences between browsers on some sites - facebook isn't supporting IE6 anymore (about time some big sites did this and force people to use more modern technology). Let's hope that when IE8 is fully released it gets as much coverage as FF3 did and most people upgrade within a few weeks - it would be great to not have to worry about IE6!

I've found that Safari can have some pretty big bugs in it on the Mac, the latest version isn't too bad but the previous 2 versions crash Javascript far too often...

[kgun]

But why is it so different in Opera? May be you should comment here

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