Twitter Friends Network

Neuro Productions’ Flash-based Twitter browser is a cool way to view your connections on Twitter, something that is nearly impossible on the site itself. Start with any Twitter user’s name and the app will load up a circle of contacts, their thumbnail pic and latest tweet. You can click on a contact in that circle and it will do the same, endlessly creating visual connections that people have made across the social networking site as long as you keep clicking. Have fun !

The result is like this …

http://www.neuroproductions.be/twitter_friends_network_browser/

Try it and have fun !

Another one is also quite funny,  from a Japanese firm @  http://isparade.jp/

The Parade sound is kind of disturbing though…

Have fun !

End of Digital Life after our Physical Life

In the future, we will invariably die two deaths: The first will be physical and the second, and potentially more noticeable death will be digital (Facebook memorializing, stagnant Twitter accounts, lost passwords). Just recently, Twitter established a policy to handle accounts after the death of a user. Family members and close friends can now petition for the removal of a loved one’s account, after filing the right paperwork.

According to the new policy page, requests must be sent to the site along with:

1. Your full name, contact information (including e-mail address), and your relationship to the deceased user.

2. The username of the Twitter account, or a link to the profile page of the Twitter account.

3. A link to a public obituary or news article

If the paperwork checks out, Twitter can opt to either delete a deceased user’s account, or create an archive of the user’s tweets for family members. Similarly, Facebook’s deceased user policy, which was put in place in October, includes an option to deactivate. Alternatively, the policy also offers to keep the account open as a digital memorial, meaning that the user’s profile is still visible (only) to friends, though all status updates and contact information have been removed.

Jeremy Toeman, who is the CEO and founder of Legacy Locker–a site that acts as a digital safe  for things like Web site log-ins, and messages to family members that can be accessed after a person dies–thinks Facebook’s relationship requirements just aren’t good enough. In a post on Legacy Locker’s company blog Toeman notes:

“This policy lacks the concept of desired intent. What if an individual wanted their Twitter stream archived (and not just by the Library of Congress)? What if another user wanted it wiped out (a challenge with any service, we acknowledge) completely? What about any situation wherein the desires of the user who dies are in conflict with those who support them, or a conflict within the surviving family members?”

Facebook will not just give your next-of-kin access.  They clearly state that it’s against their Privacy Policy to do so.   Furthermore, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act prevents the disclosure of stored communications unless there is a court order.  This means litigation.

So, with these 2 lives, Physical and Digital, time has come when we would be required to have the formalities to end the digital life !!You never know, maybe we would soon have e-will (to pass the digital estates) like Adsense revenues, Followers, Subscribers and Fans to be transfered to someone, mentioned in the will.

World around Twitter – sending multiple DMs

Direct messages (DM) are like private tweets that can be sent to one Twitter user at a time and also only to those users who are following you. It is quite similar to sending emails. Once a direct message is sent, it will not be available for public viewing, the tweet pops up in the Tweet user inbox. The sender can see that in the sent items.

However, the bigggest limitation of sending DMs through twitter is that tweets are restricted to only single user. Additionally, Twitter does not allow to send direct messages to people who don’t follow you.

But now you can send direct messages to multiple users with TweetGuru MultiDM web service/application.

To send direct messages to multiple users, you can log in to TweetGuru.com using your Twitter account details. TweetGuru is nothing but an application based on twitter. Grant access to Tweetguru to connect to your Twitter account. Again, TweetGuru is fully compatible with your mobile browsers as well.

Aha ! From your iPhone or Blackberry, you can send replies for the birthday wishes that you have received with Direct Messages. But, here again there is a limitation and that is the multiple DMs can be sent to not more than 12 users at a time.

Go ahead and begin sending DMs now to more than one tweet user…. for over enthusiastic Twitter users, you can try ScreenTweet.com for a range of image, video based tweeting !

What a digital age we are now into… interesting ? amazing !  Yes… it is but there are questions and thoughts around it as well which in others words can be put as concerns as well.

Most of us have been growing with the computing evolution in terms of social media way, as we have first learnt about ‘email account’ and what it does and slowly adopted emails as part of our daily life like other daily activities. Email has been working fine to express all our eMotions in the electronic way, official communication became blessed with the emailing stuff and we almost made the retirement of the postal services.

And then … we were still not satisfied maybe with long, boring emails to express our needs. As the mantra today with almost every product or service is ‘Do More with Less’, we started playing with this and Jack Dorsey translated this idea into action by creating ‘Twitter’.

Cool … now we have learnt rephrasing our expressions internally to produce it with a ‘Limited Edition’ of only 140 characters. Wow … they say Life is short and now expressions are shorter and gosh… don’t know what is waiting for us when we become smarter.

We need to think and express ourselves with character limitations when we need to be social in the internet domain. Forget about the character limitation in the text box to enter but also our ears and mind will get tuned to listen and understand the first 140 or shorter characters that you say or write.

Folks, we are lucky that in 2010 we still have 140 words but be prepared to do (express) the same maybe in next few years with 100, 80 or 60 character limitations in gradual way.

With the addiction to get hooked onto the social networking services, a person is now incomplete if he/she is does not maintain a Facebook, twitter or Linkedin profile. I met my neighbor the other day, in line with our social networking bondage, she asked me ‘is everything okay … as I don’t see you tweeting these days ?”

So, if you find a friend of yours who is not doing the tweets, posts, commenting on the wall, scraps etc for some days spare some minutes out of your hectic life to give him/her a buzz (not again restricting to your mobile plan of pulse/minute etc) or visit him/her to say ‘hey! How are you?” and carry on with the conversation beyond any expressive limitation.

Social Netwoking

In this era of globalisation and community building in the virtual space, it is the tools of social networking that comes as a much aided service. To know more about, as what it is, where it originated from and how it works just spend some time in reading between lines of this small informal, technical write-up in a lay man’s language.

It was as early as 1954, when the term social network was introduced by J.A Barnes. However the proper meaning of social networking can be best understood if one visits the multiple of sites that are hosted online. They can be popular ones such as MySpace to more common and frequented social networking sites such as Facebook in US, Australia and New Zealand. Do not forget to check on Orkut a very happening social networking site, quite in use with the people of Brazil and India.

If you visited it, you might have got a hang on social networking. Yes, social networking is all about building communities with like-minded individuals with some common interest. Thus this community on the internet, reads, shares discusses and even promote each other’s views for a better cause within the framework of their grouping with the larger world. It is this group that allows interacting for a common purpose towards various aspects. It helps in grouping of friends and with family members, sharing mutual views and thought provoking reviews.

A social networking site is created keeping in mind the basic requirement of an individual i.e. to SOCIALIZE. Man is a social animal, and in today’s hurricane pace of life, to stay connected with the near and dear ones, building opportunities through networking, promoting ideas, creating awareness, sharing a joke, being digitally connected and physically away is made possible through these various social networking sites. The interactive ways used in this virtual community are chats, messaging, voice chat, email, file sharing, group discussions and blogging.

The very first social networking site was classmates.com in 1995 aiming to tie up with the class friends. With its growth on the basis of trust and friends, it took a big leap around 2005 as a component of business internet strategy with Yahoo! 360 launched by Yahoo.

This is one of the most in-expensive ways to stay connected with the latest and the best not only about the people you know but also the people whom you want to know, meet digitally and share ideas in bytes and hertz.

The social networking has caught up in such a way that you can know more as the Social Networking Conference is scheduled to begin in the month of May at Tokyo, Japan to discuss the growth, development and various issues on this online community industry.

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