A case for blogging (tumblr)...

Bijan Sabet makes a great argument for blogging.

In a post on his tumblr blog, he points out that any e-mail with a subject like "check this out" shouldn't be sent.

Instead, whatever the person is going to send should be entered into some sort of social web platform. Ok, all the web techies would probably correct my language, but my point is still the same.

Bijan suggests using a tumblr blog to aggregate links, photos, music, video, quotes, etc. People with tumblr accounts can subscribe to each other's tumblogs and go nuts with the sharing. Integrate a Disqus comment system into your tumblog and your group of friends that would normally e-mail each other stuff will transcend into an online community.

I also suggest a tumblr blog as an excellent communication medium, but if that's too intense for you, you can try out something a little simpler:
Del.icio.us - social bookmarking
Ma.gnolia - social bookmarking with a bit more emphasis on the social part
Twitter - I couldn't resist...

This way, your friends can follow your links through RSS feeds or a social feed aggregator like Friendfeed.

If you do decide to join one of the above or any other site, feel free to add me as a friend. My info is on the right side of this blog.

Believe it or not, this sort of thing can save you time, although you are more likely to waste spend more time due to the increase in information. It will just make you a more knowledgeable, web savvier person....

Social Networking Aggregation...

I previous posted on social networking aggregation, so to follow up, I present Fuser. Fuser (which is still in beta) aggregates Facebook, MySpace and e-mail (pop and imap) all in one place. If you use both social networks and have an e-mail account or two, you can view them all in one central location.
You can reply within Fuser. You can view which social network friends communicate the most on your "leaderboard". It is free and may be useful to you. Check it out.

Here's a link to the story on TechCrunch:
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Yahoo! Mash?

Although I read about this a few day ago, I'm still flabbergasted that Yahoo! has created a social networking site, Yahoo! Mash. According to the review by Download Squad, Yahoo! Mash has similar features to MySpace and Facebook. They will even be opening up a 3rd party development platform (like Facebook did) in the next few months.
One interesting note from the review...friends can start pages for each other to invite them to join the service.

But still, does the web really need another social networking site?

What we need (and I have read about) is a social networking site to combine social networking sites....