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So many tips, so little time…
 
Haven't seen me in awhile here eh? Miss me?
 
Well, I've been more than busy doing the editorial director thing here at Weblogs, Inc. But, I've received tons ofsocial software tips lately, (hey barb, do you see them too?) and i thought i would at least mention a few that i willbe looking at when i have a few minutes.
 
There's bayBuddies for eBay aficionados, tip from Jim Beggs; ReBlg from my friend Marc Canter (i'll finally be checking it out this weekend Marc);and a tip from Derrick Oien that Rabble was featured in the New York Times. GoRabble!
 
I'll definitely be back in the blogging seat this coming week. Headed off on a road trip now. Have a greatweekend!

How many bloggers can say they have created five thousand weblog posts?
 
Not many I would wager, but Peter Rojas can.
 
Peter started blogging Engadget on the Weblogs, Inc. network in March of 2004and, in the last 15.5 months, made an average of 323 posts/month, or slightly more than 10 and a half posts/day, everyday, for the last 469 days. And that's just here on Engadget. Peter has actually been blogging every single day for thelast three years and is most likely closer to a career record of almost 10k posts.
 
It is appropriate to note that Peter, the 'father' of Engadget, should publish his 5k post as:
 
The Engadget Father's Day GiftGuide.
 
Congratulations Peter! Happy 5k day on Engadget!

I've been so incredibly busy lately that i have been neglecting my social software weblog terribly. Readers stillsend me tips quite regularly, Barb Dybwad takes time out from her busy Engadget editing schedule to blog here, and iblog here oftenin my thoughts.
 
Tonight Bob Sassone asked me if I was going to watch the season opener of Six Feet Under and report out on it over at TV Squad. Unfortunately, I worked right through the season opener but… i now havea Comcast dual processor DVR and was able to tape it and am watching it now.
 
Federico is doing the Internet dating thing to try and fill the void in his life left by Vanessa. Who knew?Match.com.
 
Any other Six Feet Under fans out there? Now there's a social networkthe extended Fisher clan.

Thefacebook landed more funding and plans to extend their campuscoverage to all of the four-year colleges and universities in the United States by fall term this year according to MediaPost.
 
A reader recently suggested that i create a new category on the SNS Meta List for Campus related services.
 
I have received tips recently for a few more online communities for 'students only': iVentster.com self-described as "A Peer-to-Peer, Underground, Campus eventspowerhouse"; UFOUS that claims- "there is a better way to meet people"; Campushopper that encourages you to ''Expand Your Hub''; andMonsterPapers where you can download term paper essay, research paper examples and get book report help (hmmm,MonsterPapers doesn't sound like a YASNS but introduced themselves as one in a comment on the MetaList.) LizLawley reminds me that when a site looks like an opportunistic linker, it most likely is an opportunistic leech. HiLiz, thanks for stopping by…

Benjamin Kaplin gave me a heads up about Classface.com yesterdaybrought tous by RateMyTeachers.
 
An excerpt from the email that 'Benkay' forwarded to me:
 
"...Classface.com is a completely new way to meet other teenagers and organize your social life at your school. Thesite is something like "The highschoolers guide to the galaxy" – and we think we're off to a good start, but we needyour help! It is you guys who made RMT into what it is - and it is you who will make Classface another special place,too.
 
Please login at Classface.com and dive right in fill out your profile, upload your photo and please invite allyour friends too! ..."
 
Any RateMyTeachers readers here? Tried Classface yet?

UPDATE: Amit Gupta dropped me a note that: "...it's probably more accurate to say that the site isa joint-venture. The companies involved are The Daily Jolt, Bolt, RateMyTeachers and RateMyProfessors…" So, what hesaid.

Back in March I penned a post about DonnaHanover's bookMy Boyfriend's Back.
 
It appears from the tales of over 600couples on the MyBoyfriendsBack.com website that there's a whole lot ofreuniting going on.
 
I haven't read the book, and i'm still not one of the millions who has joined Classmates.com but i did move back hometo the ''right'' coast a couple of years ago and keep running into people who look ever so slightly familiar.

I received this tip that Sassa is out at Friendster, checked Jeremy Zawodny's blog, and it appears to be solid.
 
Friendster hasn't been on my radar for quite some time now. MySpace, Flickr, del.icio.us, LinkedIn and Yahoo! 360 havebeen the social networking services in my life lately.
 
Rob Hof over at The Tech Beat also confirms that ScottSassa leaves Friendster as of June 13, 2005.
 
Wonder what potential means of resuscitation new CEO Taek Kwon might bring to the Friendster scene?

I think that this is the 61st post in which iexplicitly mention 'online dating', but certainly i've posted more than 61 times about various online datingservices?
 
Must…update…Social Networking Services Meta List!I've been so busy doing the editorial director thing here at Weblogs, Inc. that i have been very negligent in updatingmy long list of YASNS.
 
For example, in the news this evening for online dating alone is: Online dating for golfers,an online dating service that integrates Google Maps, a dating profile verifier, and a safer way toconnect.
 
tagged: OnlineDating; YASNS; Social Networking

I'm a text messenger from way back. Way back being when BlackBerries were only pagers and we text messaged eachother while in important meetings or out of the office to make sure that we all had the same information and were alltelling the same stories.
 
Howard Rheingold has a great bit on Jeff Axupa Ph.Dcandidate in Australia's University of Queensland's Information Environments programand the importance of observinghomo sapiens in their natural environments whilst communicating in motion ala MoSoSo.
 
Gossip as a form of primary travel information. Blogs as a form of friendly gossip. There is something so wonderfullyreal or near-real time about gossip, especially friendly travel gossip. Our Gadling blog here at Weblogs, Inc. is a form of friendly travel gossip. Blogsencourage this manner of swapping stories, especially in ongoing comments, trackbacks, tagging, digg-ing, slashdotting,flickr-ing, etc.
 
Howard has some great quotes from Jeff Axup, a snippet of one: "...Technology greatly influences how people act…" and,i believe, people's actions greatly influence technology. People create tools. A lot of people create a lot of tools.Engineers often create tools that serve some of the people some of the time, and often very little attention isactually paid to observing the utilization of these ''some of the time'' tools ''in the field'' or in the daily motionof our lives.
 
Imagine a world where the tools you used actuallly fit your needs? Or, could morph to meet them?
 
tagged: MoSoSo; HowardRheingold; Gossip

I use Bloglines to keep up with some blogging news, inadddition to using a firehose of funky combinations of Google news alerts, keyword alerts, numerous news wires, etc.all funneling into a Gmail account with Labels (btw, have you seen Darren Rowse's' WarningAbout Checking Gmail RSS On Bloglines'?).
 
Haven't tried Bloglines on my mobile device, but Fredrik Wacka gives a tiptoday that:
Bloglines Mobile + Opera for Mobile = Your feeds everywhere.
 
One of the things I like about Bloglines is that i can 'share' my feeds and also see who is referring to various postsi am interested in followinga more 'social' aspect of this social media tool peeking through. Bloglines recommendsvarious feeds when i first launch it, some of which i find interesting, and others, well, not at all. I find mostrecommendation engines fairly hit or miss.
 
Did you catch Stephen Baker's post on his chat with the CEO of Bloglines about releasing "...a blog search engine this summer which will surpassthe likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub…"? Do we believe this?
 
Unfortunately, I was too busy to attend Syndicate this week but, 'to feed and how much to feed' is likely a questionon many an advertiser, marketer, or publisher's mind right now (or certainly should be according to Rebecca Lieb among others).

Found a new dream job? Now find ''your pad'' and your hood and your peeps and/or your people.
 
Michelle Keller of The Stanford Daily recommends theubiquitous craigslist to help find your dream housing to go along with your dream job and your dream roommates and yourdream neighbors and neighborhood.
 
Slowly now, step away from the computer… [warning, tags ahead!]
 
So between craigslist, Google Maps (and a nifty combo of these two, compliments of Paul Rademacher), Stanford's inCircle, LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, StanfordClubs, Zagat, and DailyCandy,Keller recommends that new graduates can ease the transition into their new lives in a more socially networkedway.
 
How many of these services are now mobile?

This is about the 30thmention of MySpace that I've made here on The Social Software Weblog.
 
Technorati has a MySpace tag. Flickr has a couple of MySpace ad photos. And Google has millions of search results for MySpace which is also in the news… constantly. And, we're not just talking blogging news here either.
 
Billy Corgan is in the news for using MySpace, he has a great Dark Citylike wallpaper on his Space. And, live bands for Wrestlestock 2005 areadvertising that they'll be playing this event on their Spaces.
 
Personally I've found some great Indie tracks via the Music page at MySpace. Give a listen to what'splaying in The Booth.

As, 'Emerging Stars'.
 
The TiEcon 2005, put on by 'The Indus Entrepreneurs' or TiE, described as ''the world's largest conference forentrepreneurs'', takes place today and tomorrow. To be considered for an Emerging Star award one must be a privatecompany with more than $1M in funding and $10M in revenues.
 
Socialtext and Technorati 'shone' in the TiEcon 'Internet' category.Other categories included: ERM, Networking, Semiconductor, Services, Security, Software and Wireless.
 
A 'lucky' Friday the 13th event for both Ross Mayfield and David Sifry, and their excellent teams!

Are you actively using any peer-to-peer sharing networks right now?
 
How about the Beta of Peerflix? Under the 'How It Works' tab on their website it says ''Keep what you receive. You own them.'' So, onceyou receive a DVD it's yours until you decide to trade it again. There is a 'per trade' cost of 99¢, and you can cancelyour participation at any time. When you sign up you get a 'free' DVD.
 
So, let's see, you enter your collection of DVDs that you would like to trade in your ''DVDs I have'' list and DVDsyou'd like to see in a ''DVDs I want'' list. You get four mailers, send your DVDs into the Peerflix universe, get''Peerbux'' assigned for each of the DVDs you place in the trading pool, get a chance to actually 'buy' DVDs fromAmazon via the Peerflix system, and I'm sure lots more but… I kept getting a 'Peerflix is restarting. Please stand by.'message as I tried to work my way around this DVD sharing system to 'share' some info here with you.
 
So, anyone using this DVD sharing BETA?

Wow. Nice.
 
If you're on dodgeball.com then you already know this.

[so, i knew it but thanks to my buds: ted, tom, alberto, and barb for leaving me tips!]