Social Network Niche Sharing

After reading Kurt Starne's article on Going Native In The Age Of Aggregation, I knew there were people like I who are tired of jumping hoops, making social network services connect with each other, and seeing duplicates in the same sites. I used to do a one click sharing to the SNS world, but doing that just made my sites feel like soup with too much water in it.

In response, I'm thinking of approaching these sites like how I would write for blogs: niche sharing. Niche sites cater to a community that has particular needs and interests (example, MMORPG.com is for MMO gamers, TechCrunch is for techies and gadget lovers, etc.). Looking at my main SNS (Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Plurk), I see a trend in my audience's interests and shares that will be the basis of what I'm going to share with them.

Facebook Lite: No more FB Phat!

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A few months ago, Facebook (FB) acquired Friendfeed (FF) and it was big news to the social networking world. People from the FF side mostly felt that they were betrayed when the team that made it all happen went to work for FB.

One Click Google Reader Sharing to FB, Twitter, and Plurk

A few days ago, I wrote about how I push my blog's feeds to the SNS universe, now I'll be showing how I push my Google Reader Shares to it as well. Although Google Reader has just provided support to it's sharing features by adding a "Send To" link to almost any site you want, it still requires you to click on each SNS site, go that site's page, and manually click on sending it; I want things simpler: ONE CLICK and send my Google Reader shared items to everywhere I want.

Here's how I do it:

How I push my posts to the SNS universe

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For most bloggers who want to easily reach out to the Tweeterverse, the news from Blogger would be a heavensent:

Tweeting your new blog posts is a great way to engage your readers, and something that many on the team have taken advantage of for our own blogs. An easy way to do this is through Twitterfeed, which automatically updates Twitter with each new blog post.

Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street

If you got a Facebook account and you received an email with a title like the one above, please don't be a doofus and click on it (like I did LOLZ!!!).

Why? It's a virus named Koobface sent to your Facebook account that once it enters your computer, it will:

"... transform victim machines into zombie computers to form botnets."

Other funny-sounding email titles you should totally delete:

• Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet
  
• You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam
  
• Is it really celebrity? Funny Moments

...and anything else that sounds totally off-kilter...

Not to worry, as the site has already provided instructions on how to destroy the little bastards.

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