social networking
Tweetbacks: Let Twitter host your blog's comments
Back on Sunday, Mashable put out a list of predictions on how Twitter would change blogging in 2009. The first prediction in their list was "tweetbacks", or a way of showing tweets that reference a particular blog article. Well, not two days later did someone actually create them. Social media pro Dan Zarrella whipped up a Tweetbacks system that went live on Tuesday, followed by an update on Thursday.
Facebook could kill Twitter? Yeah, and I'm a flying pig
Nick O'Neill over at AllFacebook has an interesting idea — Facebook could trounce Twitter if they would only add the ability to fetch status updates from their 
Four services FriendFeed should add right away
FriendFeed is a great online tool, as I've said before. It aggregates updates from a number of different services, and makes it easier to share with friends and other people what you've been saying and doing online. The FriendFeed team continually adds new services and features to the site, but there remains a few good services which the team should get added, right away (at least in my opinion):
Does Digg still matter?
No doubt you know about Digg, the social news site that lets you "discover the best of the web". It's been a popular site since it first hit the scene four years ago. It's had its fair share of supporters and detractors along the way, from those who thought it would revolutionize news on the internet to those who claimed it to be a portal to clueless sensationalism. But now, does anyone even really care?
Chris' top dozen communication tools of 2008
Here's a list of the communication, Web 2.0 and social networking sites and tools that I've come to love the most over 2008. The list is by no means exclusive, but these are the ones I've had the most experience with, and wouldn't ever want missing in my online life.
Wakoopa: A scrobbler for applications
If you're reading this blog, you probably know about Last.fm or iLike, two services for sharing what music you listen to, and how much you enjoy it. Some bright folks in Amsterdam have come up with the idea of doing the same thing, but with the applications you use, rather than music. In a nutshell, that's Wakoopa — a service for letting everyone know what software you use, and what you think of it.
Boldly going where no social network has gone before
I broke my month-long boycott of Facebook today. Within 45 minutes, I scheduled my account for deletion. Good riddance, I say!
Inches away from leaving Facebook forever
Yeah, I admit it. I use Facebook. But as they plan to switch over to their widely panned new design without option for anyone to keep the old, I’m just inches away from deleting my account and not using Facebook again. That design is broken, unhelpful, and confusing to a lot of people. It takes away most of the control I have over my profile, and what little it gives back is entirely ridiculous.
Building a distributed social network
Something that everyone and his dog have been into on the internet these past couple of years has been social networking and the whole "Web 2.0" thing. There are problems with how it currently works, however. Today, everyone goes to social network portals, such as MySpace or Facebook, and while this may be easier for the less technically apt, it's pretty annoying when everyone's trying to get you to use this or that "app" for your portal of choice.
Open Source Social Networking?
My friend Rob just recently checked out a website that calculates one's contributions to the open source development scene. Apparently it's also got some social networking stuff in it, although I never saw anything of the sort. Anyway, the site is called Ohloh.net, and it gave Rob this nice little badge (below the fold):
