Maybe the House Sparrow Isn't Lonely... Also, Social Computing Revisited
Yesterday, the little house sparrow made his proud debut with a female... They stood on top of their birdhouse and shuffled about awkwardly as if two teens waiting for a Vegas Elvis to marry them. Quite cute actually... Too bad that my camera/tripod skills weren't nearly so cute, and I completely blew the photo. Just take my word for it, Mr. and Mrs. Sparrow were on the roof of the slight dwelling below.
On to more mundane... Last January we took a look at social networking and social bookmarking. Let's take another look.
Once again, the following two videos should offer some insight. (Though you should certainly feel free to ask this blog any questions that might cross your mind...)
Social networking:
Social bookmarking:
The issue is now as it was then... Do you think that something like this would appeal to you? Or more accurately, would you use this sort of community browsing and information sharing? Thoughts...
- Speaking strictly for myself, I'm not all that crazy about the pure social networking sites like linkedin.com - at least not for this informal backyard birding audience. My Outlook "Keep" folder has a bunch of LinkedIn invitations, and every one of them is professional in nature.
- A service more dedicated to sharing significant and similar birding "tags" seems apt... Delicious looks very appealing. More experimenting with that down the short road.
- And then there's Yoono... How to describe? This is sort of a one-stop shopping for social computing. (I'm running it now, and it is a trip.) In general, think of other social computing services as more or less dedicated apps serving one purpose. On the other hand, Yoono acts more like an MS Office Suite... Tricky, but cool...
I know for many of you, the issue of social computing is foreign. However, the genie is clearly out of the bottle, and these are issues we all should discuss...
See you by the feeders...
CapeCodAlan