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By: Socialmedian Launches New ‘Replize’ Feature to Help Communication | RateJamaica

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:54:46 +0000

[...] off its first major upgrade, socialmedian, a service that lets users find and share news from within their social networks, [...]

By: Socialmedian Launches New ‘Replize’ Feature to Help Communication

Socialmedian Launches New ‘Replize’ Feature to Help Communication — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:00:29 +0000

[...] off its first major upgrade, socialmedian, a service that lets users find and share news from within their social networks, [...]

By: Raavi | Social Media

Raavi | Social Media — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:06:13 +0000

Social Median has become for me best solution for promoting articles related to Social Media, and because update options and improve connections on the social networks, demonstrates professionalism, but also targeting primarily to the users to put in the foreground activity.

By: Mike Fidler

Mike Fidler — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:31:37 +0000

I have been using Socialmedian for long enough now to say, that all of the new features recently added, have made the site a pleasure to spend time on. It is simple and intuitive, yet powerful.What I like best of all is that it feels like part of the more 2.0 community of sites that I use. Obviously, there is still some work to be done. Yesterday, I emailed Jason a shortlist of additional features I would like to see, and to my surprise, he emailed me back saying, ” Working on all of these,Thanks!”. So, the way I see it is, If its good now , it will be event better in a couple of weeks. Jason is obviously determined to make this a success. That’s a tall order to fill in such a crowded field. Personally, I like to see a startup make something out of itself. I thought that was what the TechCrunch 50 is all about. Finally, you can’t compare Socialmedian to Digg, unless your just comparing technical features. Social Media is all about the community, and in this case, it is a mature, friendly, and thoughtful group. Your work is featured over there quite often. Digg on the other had is very adolescent, and has developed a community which is very typical of that demographic. A better comparison would be to compare Digg is to MySpace, and Socialmedian to Facebook. Get it ?

By: try2

try2 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:58:38 +0000

Why should users have to filter? Services should filter, services should be smart. Anyone can build a news collector.

How does SM compare to NOBOSH? nobosh has a cleaner design and I don’t have to filter what the site should be smart enough to filter out right?

http://nobosh.com/

By: Not Social

Not Social — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:39:58 +0000

SM is starting to become more S&M and I am the M – lol – net I hate getting this in email every F**)*& day

My Advice – take a page from newsWEEK – its not newsday its newsweek

By: privacy please

privacy please — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:34:00 +0000

Packaging adds value, intellignet packaging adds more value. The business model seems – hard to see – this is a concern mostly because I am not sure how I am being pimped

By: diordan

diordan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:03:53 +0000

if everyone thought like most of the commentors above, we would all be driving Fords now. Have you ever thought of improving something or making something better, like, to use the same analogy, a Toyota? (Prius

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:20:54 +0000

@waiting for the point — Good point. Finally someone who is saying “the king is naked”.

I think that TC, Mashable, RWW and other tech blogs should start putting more emphasize on business models when covering new companies.

By: Dave Kinsella

Dave Kinsella — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:34:56 +0000

I’ve been using socialmedian for quite a while now and so far I’ve had no major complaints. The democratized development process has been very refreshing, creating project review teams from site users. There is a real atmosphere of inclusion, encouraging everybody to have their say and Jason Goldberg seems to have a superhuman ability to listen, respond and actively get in touch with people.

In terms of the functionality which differentiates the site, for me, the networks and the way in which the site can (optionally) automatically assign new clips to relevant networks takes some of the work out of adding links or finding the ones that you might be interested in.

By: waiting for the point

waiting for the point — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:28:40 +0000

I’m sure we’re probably not supposed to ask, but what is the business model of aggregators like s|m or friendfeed built on the backs of other sites (digg, twitter, google reader, flickr) which themselves have no business model?

I mean, granted, friendfeed can’t even muster the “pioneering feature” of keyword filtering, but geez. yawn.

If I don’t want to bother to tell my friends directly about a “update” I made on an actual destination, maybe it’s not worth these so-called aggregators to spew the shit out another faucet and pretend people care about it.

At least s|m isn’t trying to promote some jackass “protocol” that asks the destination sites to do the work for them aka just deliver updates. Guys trying to make a business on RSS polling have gone and built themselves–oops!–a nice shit sandwich:
/==================\
poll, poll, poll.
Even if no one cares, poll, poll, poll.
No one has read the updates in a month
poll, poll, poll.
\==================/

By: Charles B

Charles B — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:50:47 +0000

SocialMedian is all about getting and sharing the least noisy, most relevant news and information. Think about browsing Digg or pouring through Friendfeed, how much noise there is, how much you find that you really don’t care about. With S|M, you’re getting the most relevant information based on your news networks and preferences. The newstreaming features–which are a snap to activate, add additional sophistication. I can bring in my Diggs, some or all of my Tweets, Delicious items, FF ads, etc. This shares them with my S|M followers rather than having to submit (”clip” in s|m parlance) each item to S|M separately. Rather than just a general lifestream containing all of a user’s impulses and activities, what’s created is a focused and filtered newsstream relevant to the user and community. Try it, you’ll like it. Even if you don’t get into every feature, you’ll find it easy and useful.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:50:08 +0000

Uh, how hard are they trying to be Facebook of “news” instead of “people”? (Look closely at the UI) This is not innovation, and is not competitive. Even then, attaching silly names to me-too features does not trick anybody.

By: Judyh2008

Judyh2008 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:28:15 +0000

what is different with digg. why we have a lot of same type site?

By: Diordna

Diordna — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:19:14 +0000

I have been using S|M (Social Median) from the beginning and I like it and use it everyday to get my doze of filtered and relevant news. If adding the twitter feature a problem, then what about the other features like allowing you to add your blog with similar filtering, your news caster, with similar keyword filtering. They all do the same thing! as twittering.
I am just a member without and binding to S|M. I think a little exploration will make you see S|M for what it is. Create your own news network, add feeds, let others do the same and you will be surprised how many others have the same interests as you and some of them are experts on the subject.

By: Jason Goldberg

Jason Goldberg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:48:39 +0000

Here’s reviews from:

Read Write Web http://www.read...s_streaming.php

Mashable http://mashable...comment-1094667

By: Eyebee

Eyebee — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:25:51 +0000

Going in the right direction {seesmic_video:{”url_thumbnail”:{”value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/e7TAa9p9f0_th1.jpg”}”title”:{”value”:”Going in the right direction ”}”videoUri”:{”value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/auMGwk2fOz”}}}

By: Jason Goldberg

Jason Goldberg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:21:42 +0000

TM: What’s your socialmedian username — we’ll help you get going on it.

By: TM

TM — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:18:44 +0000

I agree with Mair. I’ve tried to understand SocialMedian and I still don’t get it. I can’t figure out why I would use or what it does. It certainly doesn’t give me news. i’m sorry, but adding the ability to add my twitter feed won’t help. fail.

By: Jason Goldberg

Jason Goldberg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:38:35 +0000

The new features are now live on socialmedian. You may begin adding your feeds

By: Jason Goldberg

Jason Goldberg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:30:29 +0000

The new socialmedian features will be live in just a few minutes. Please give them a try and then pass along some feedback.

By: Mair

Mair — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:16:09 +0000

I can’t grasp socialmedian and what its use is? Maybe if it were slightly more attractive to the eyeballs.