Monday, November 17, 2008

I was thinking about what a nasty little web (pun intended) of connections I've created recently with all the social media sites. For fun, I spent a few minutes diagramming the connections last night. The hardest part was laying out all of the lines and bubbles to make sense of the connections.

One thing that I considered after the fact was how I work with the tools. For example, I find it kind of amazing (even being a technology professional) that I can be anywhere in the world with cell phone coverage, and send a text message that gets propagated across several sites in one shot. The text message goes to twitter, which then gets pulled into FriendFeed and Plaxo. From FriendFeed, the message is then forwarded as my status to LinkedIn and Facebook. My website also shows that message via a FriendFeed gadget.

The interconnections in the web definitely represent something more powerful than what is accomplished with just one site. This is where the real power of the web is these days.

Update: Jon Udell has an interesting post about a similar concept. While I just marveled at the current state of affairs, John describes some goals that he wants to see fulfilled.

Labels: personal, social media, web 2.0