Social Network Use - 2011
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The last few years have seen a torrent of new social network prying for our thoughts and information sharing. Here are the ones that made it into my daily use at the end of 2011.
social networking
Too Linked?
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I am pruning my LinkedIn connection, the list is down to less than 180.
In the past 12 months, many peoples I never know added me as their contact, vowing the same "we never know when we can help each other out in the future, so let's connect. I have more than XXXX connections and I'm sure one of them can help you out in some ways too".
Aggregating things personal
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More and more sites are offering feeds nowadays, and those I find especially useful are the social networking sites. These also pop up on almost a weekly basis, and most of them are useful even for personal realm. I've tried using them to collect and categorize
* "webpages":http://del.icio.us/dubber
* "musics":http://www.last.fm/user/chrisada
* "scientific papers":http://www.citeulike.org/user/chrisada
* "things to do":http://www.43things.com/person/chrisada
* "social networking sites":http://supr.c.ilio.us/
* "Places I go online":http://www.plazes.com/
More are probably out there. These sites offer content syndication in one form or another, and it is such a useful way of organizing data because each of them were made for a particular content type in mind. It might be possible to use Drupal's "flexinode":http://drupal.org/node/5737 (or the new CCK(Content Construction Kit) ) to tailor a node type to fit a content type (say movie I went to) reasonably well, but why reinvent the wheel?
Drupal can aggregate RSS (and soon Atom), so I have been "aggregating":http://ichris.ws/aggregator/sources these into this site. I haven't decie how exploit these to the fullest, but honestly it's already quite useful.
