Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

This is the first install­ment of Jimmy’s Week on the Inter­Webs. A very low-level look at what’s cur­rent and what I think would be inter­est­ing for agency folks that is hap­pen­ing on the Web. This may end up being a weekly blog arti­cle or it might not.

Lots inter­est­ing things going on with Face­book right now. Last week Face­book bought a lit­tle com­pany called Friend­Feed. Friend­Feed had been on the radar of Web hip­sters for awhile and is con­sid­ered to be the next Twit­ter by some and poten­tially an even big­ger hit.

Friend­Feed is basi­cally an aggre­ga­tor of your social con­tent on the web. It links your social accounts together so when you post some­thing on the Twit­ter, Friend­Feed picks it up, or if your Face­book friend puts some­thing on their wall it will show up on Friend­Feed too. You can post to mul­ti­ple sites on FF as well. All that con­tent in one place can get over­whelling, espe­cially with their lack­lus­ter dash­board. But many smart peo­ple swear by this site as the future.

Last week, Face­book also announced Face­Book Lite. This is most likely intended to be a more stream­lined ver­sion that will be a com­peti­tor to Twitter.

But it seems they’re also play­ing nice with Twit­ter for the ben­e­fit of Face­book admins with a tool that allows them to post to both their Face­book page and to Twit­ter. More about that here.

Next week I’ll be talk­ing with Vit­rue about their SRM tool for Face­book post­ing and tracking.

For a more in-depth analy­sis of where Face­book may be headed check out Jere­miah Owyang’s more indepth post.

Steamy is a social aggre­ga­tor on ste­ri­ods and most likely a pre­cur­sor to what Google Wave will be. It’s basi­cally a sin­gle Web page where you can access all of your com­mu­ni­ca­tion and infor­ma­tion. All of your RSS streams, email, chat, Face­book, social book­mark­ing, and even join news groups (remem­ber those). This is a really cool ser­vice that prob­a­bly seems point­less to many, but def­i­nitely demon­strates where the Web is head­ing (aggre­ga­tion). I’ve been using and like it but don’t see it as an all-purpose tool.

In an attempt to stay rel­e­vant, MySpace has acquired a social music dis­cov­ery site iLike. This is prob­a­bly a good move for them to hold on to the music audi­ence. If they could only do some­thing to improve that awful interface.

Some of you may know that I’ve been lis­ten­ing and learn­ing about tools to mon­i­tor the chat­ter on the Web. I still have a few more to learn about but if folks are inter­ested in see­ing and learn­ing more about what each can do, let me know and I’ll share.

This site has been around for awhile but I only recently started pay­ing atten­tion to it. I dig it.

When of the neat­est things I stum­bled upon this week is the Per­sonas site from MIT. It pro­vides a graphic visu­al­iza­tion of your online per­son­al­ity. Enjoy.

Be Socia­ble, Share!

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