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Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Laurent — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:23:43 -0000

Same way than you with social networking tools : LinkedIn for yeatrs, then Facebook, then Twitter...recently Oracle Mix (but i still haven't lots of activity on the site). So totally agree with you, same use for me.

I have been working on a personal project (a game) developed with RoR, including social features (stay tuned, it will be released as beta before end of december '07): GMap, twitter , friendship, messaging, chatting are in the plan.

Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Jake — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:28:09 -0000

@Topper: We're working on it. Welcome to the endless feedback loop.

Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Matt Topper — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:18:09 -0000

I'd post the idea, but I still need to get my domain added to that mix thing you guys keep talking about ;-)

Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Jake — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:10:25 -0000

To add to Rick's tools, I use David Sterry's Tweet Scan. It indexes all public tweets and has an OpenSearch plugin to boot.

Jeremiah, a Twitter fiend, has a list of ways he uses Twitter.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/11/29/h...

Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Rick Turoczy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:58:45 -0000

First off, thanks for the mention. Much appreciated. ;)

As far as finding Jake on Twitter goes, I used Matt King's Twitterwhere app. It lets you listen in on a particular geographic region of Twitter folk. While it doesn't provide the topical filtering that some of the other commenters here are requesting, I've found it a valuable place to start.

The topic-by-location request is one that I hear quite often. There are tools like Twitterverse which provide topics globally, by popularity, and tools like Twitterwhere. But I have yet to find a combo of the two.

I'm sure someone could build it off the Twitter api. Unfortunately, that someone is not me.

Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Jake — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:30:50 -0000

Topper: I like geolocation as part of a network too, which is why Eddie's map is interesting. We talked to Oracle Spatial about adding some mapping stuff to Connect, but nothing came of it. Having a combo of Twitter (what are you doing) plus geolocation (where are you) would be sweet. Oh, and probably useful too.

Add an idea and see if it gets any traction.

Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Matt Topper — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:30:13 -0000

What I want is to add location to a social network (like mix) where I can find people with the same skills sets / interests as me. I'm a mobile guy consulting around the US. It would be great to go into a town and have 4-5 other Oracle people interested in IdM that I could ping for dinner or lunch to talk about war stories and best practices. Yes the whore consultants will abuse it for more work, but I'm sure we can quickly get them on an ignore list. Thats something I've talked about for years but never had the time to build a whole network around. That would be my first app I'd extend into the mix ;-).

Re: What Do You Really Want from a Social Network?

Ron — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:09:11 -0000

Interesting post. I get informed about new events on my non active profiles through my 8hands which provides notifications to the desktop.
Since I've installed it, I nearly never check my Myspace of Facebook profiles, cause I'm sick of them both. I get all the info I need without really logging in. If there's something surprisingly interesting, only then I will visit those sites.