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Re: The Web Version of You

youtube downloader — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:46:25 -0000

What about ClaimID or OpenID 'about me' RSS Feeds? Yes it can be an RSS feed.. but make it look different. If you can say THIS IS ABOUT ME! or I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS.. sometimes people may do a search for you online, and find stuff that is not you.

Re: The Web Version of You

Chel Wolverton — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:29:44 -0000

I don't know the answers yet, but Nathan Burke had some interesting questions regarding FriendFeed and being authentic online. He wonders if it's even possible and if presence management isn't called for.

Some great questions: http://blogstring.com/2008/...

Re: The Web Version of You

Dirk — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:18:24 -0000

Chris, all,

Friendfinder is a great tool, indeed. To give the discussion a twist; we are working on another platform for the 'webversion of you' focusing on displaying your EXPERTISE to the world, on any topic. Check out www.gemzies.com, and a example 'webversion of you'-profile on http://www.gemzies.com/show.... Thanks on forehand for your feedback!

Re: The Web Version of You

Nick Broom — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:52:47 -0000

I've been reading your blog for sometime, all great content and interesting material. I think the whole area of how you appear online and your digital presence is gaining relevance and takes another leap toward being able to measure the social web and the impact of social media communications for brands and business globally. Since it all starts with individuals, it makes sense that most development is in this area and I welcome more tools and ideas of this kind - have you seen QDOS (www.qdos.com) for another slant..?

Re: The Web Version of You

chrisbrogan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:24:19 -0000

@Jez - really great points. There isn't much "claim dispute" here on the ole web. Hmmm, now that you mention it.

Re: The Web Version of You

jezarnold — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:54:25 -0000

Chris.. How about your wiki user page?? and Talk page?? some people make a lot of edits and help out with the wikipedia project..

Also FF should have an editable profile page! Not too much, but some info you could add. To be fair, it really should point to your Blogs About page... but still maybe a useful feature

Re: The Web Version of You

Jason Cormier — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:16:30 -0000

Chris,

I was just discussing with a partner today about how the term "social media" is now being more actively used in a business context. Companies see the kind of image that you have posted, and they say, "ok, what should we do next?"

I actually posted one that relates very closely to this on my (new) blog last night that you may find interesting. Of course, the risk with putting an image like this together yourself is knowing that you certainly left something critical out! http://www.vistrata.com/rea...

Re: The Web Version of You

Rachel Happe — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:03:04 -0000

Hmmmm...the very idea of FriendFeed makes me nervous - it assumes that I want to share everything with everyone...and maybe I'm old fashioned but I just don't. I don't want to share my wedding pictures on Flickr with business associates and most of my friends are not all that interested in my LinkedIn connections. I share different content with different circles for a reason - mostly because of what the different circles really care about. Community is contextual. Not that I am anti-FriendFeed but unless I can filter, I am actually not interested in aggregating.

Re: The Web Version of You

Daniele Rossi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:41:29 -0000

FriendFeed is intriguing and I'm definitely looking into seeing if it's a tool to enhance my social media profile that I have hand coded myself on my website.

Re: The Web Version of You

John McCrea — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:05:07 -0000

How about public profile pages that incorporate one's own aggregated stream of content and their consolidated online identity? Here's mine: http://johnmccrea.myplaxo.com/

Re: The Web Version of You

Micah Baldwin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:57:21 -0000

Right here, Chris! Where most people are each morning, reading your blog, and the comments.

Friendfeed is a wonderful service, which is known as a social aggregator, and is, by definition a destination where you can go and see the collected feed information for you and your friends. It has a great search functionality, and it pretty much real time.

Lijit is not a desination site. Think of Lijit as a filter for all the information that FriendFeed collects. So, with Chris, for example, his Lijit Network consists of his blog, his online content (like friendfeed), and a list of other trusted sources (some are other Lijit users and some are not). So, if I wanted to know what Chris has written about "personal branding," I could do that search in the Lijit search box on the left side of Chris' blog, and the results would return posts that Chris has written, but also posts from Dan Schawbel's personalbrandingblog.wordpr....

Do I know Dan? Nope. But, because Dan is connected to Chris, my trust in Chris is transferred to this result. I have now discovered new content that I may not have found otherwise.

And, its that application of trust, plus the fact that Lijit is a publisher plugin versus a destination site, that, IMHO, makes the two services highly complementary, but different.

Hope that helps, Feel free to email me at micah [at] lijit [dot] com if you have more questions.

Re: The Web Version of You

Darren Daz Cox — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:35:12 -0000

I think there is an overkill point and a point where the quantity of information puts pressure on people to use a middleman program like this. Sometimes a blogpost is best read in situ, surrounded by the trappings of the author to put things in context!

Re: The Web Version of You

TroyJMorris — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:26:12 -0000

I just started using FriendFeed a few days ago. I'm in love. It's a passive way to allow friends to know what you know. It's sharing time on steroids. Sure, none of my friends use it yet... but in time.

What's next for it? That's what could/should be interesting. It's pretty limitless, really.

Re: The Web Version of You

Merlene — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:41:40 -0000

The one application I notice is missing is Utterz :)

Re: The Web Version of You

chrisbrogan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:28:05 -0000

@kathybeth - I think another solution would be Lijit. If you swing by [chrisbrogan.com] and look at my far right sidebar, beneath the black "MyBlogLog" thing, there's a part with a search bar and says "My Content." That's Lijit.

That's an easy widget for people to see all the places where you contribute.

FriendFeed is more that+ a conversation.

In fact, where's Micah. How do YOU explain how FriendFeed and Lijit are different?

Re: The Web Version of You

Paul Chaney — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:22:04 -0000

Is this another step toward a truly semantic version of the web? FriendFeed does seem to create a Pangaea of all the media I create, syndicate, advocate. If nothing else, it's simplified the task of media consumption from those whose output I value.

Re: The Web Version of You

Katybeth — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:03:19 -0000

I am a newbie and feel overwhelmed when trying to manage my web site, blogs, twitter, picasso,facebook,LinkIn--It seems to me like I can use friendfeed as a kind of index. Is it appropriate to put under my signiture line as the on-line place client can keep up to date with my camp news?

Re: The Web Version of You

RyanMoede — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:53:36 -0000

I think what comes next is the true digital business card - something that easily bridges the digital and physical space to share this great collection of information about who I am.

Re: The Web Version of You

Peter West — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:26:43 -0000

Chris, you've read my mind again. Of course, it may not be all that hard :) Anyway we've (collectively) commented on how fragmented and confusing new media applications can be for newbies, business folks and even those of us who have been hanging out on the net for awhile. This is a great list. I've got some clients who should be aware of what can happen to brands and reputations when they can't control the conversation. Many thanks - Peter.