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http://proclus.zooloo.com/?page_name=_Graffiti

If you are are looking for a novel social networking experience, you should try ZooLoo.  Their Graffiti mini-blog format is unusual and striking in its presentation, but under the hood, it is a full-fledged blogging and status system and more.  An advanced array of submission and posting tools is easily accessible from the web interface or bookmarklet, which is free software friendly local javascript.  These are very useful creativity tools.

The utility of the ZooLoo site does not end there, and in your ZooLoo home you will find a marvellous web interface for monitoring and posting to some of your favorite social networks, such as Twitter.  ZooLoo is in the emerging spectrum of social networking tools which enable you to update several networks at once.  This reduces considerably the work that is required to keep all of your friends and associates informed on various networks.  I call this multiband social networking.  When the Twitter web site is down, the Twitter network is still typically accessible via the ZooLoo monitoring and posting toolset.  This is multiband social networking for everyman (or woman).

ZooLoo includes some inline advertising, but for those that are able to buy an upgrade, the ads are removed, and the multiband novice will have access to a full-fledged domain management tool.  Recently, I put in a service request to ZooLoo, and the problem was addressed with impressive speed by their friendly Geek 911 squad. 

ZooLoo is a full fledged social networking tool in its own right, and it is one of the few of the lesser known social network sites where I have made new connections.  I have noticed a few inconsistencies in the ZooLoo interface with respect to browser version, but if it works for you then it may be just what you are looking for.  The ZooLoo techs seem eager to address such problems.  Other services which are addressable by ZooLoo include, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn, and flickr. 

Other services which provide comparable multiband social networking services include, Hellotxt, Ping.fm, and Posterous Blogs, and articles about these services may follow.  For more advanced users these services may provide post-by-email, and by SMS texting, in addition to the web interface.  Like the other services, ZooLoo is advancing meta-data analyis to present striking summaries.  Meta-data handling makes it easier for users to update all of their social networks no matter where they are, so that you don't need a video camera to break news anymore, and anybody with a cell phone can do it.  The video, text, and images are handled appropriately according to the context.  The era of multiband social networking is here, and it is still evolving.  Moreover, it is clear that social networking is only beginning to make its mark on society.  It is a terrific democratizing tool, and this is an exciting time to be alive. 

If you are a novice to all of this, and are adept at using the web, you might want to start with ZooLoo.  For more advanced users, there are other services that may be more powerful.  If the ZooLoo team is listening, perhaps they should consider the addition of some of these more powerful features and the addition of a wider range of networks to their multiband auto-update service.  My impression is that they will be more than willing to make such arrangements for paying customers, so that naive users can take advantage of their expertise.  Anyway, this suggestion goes for all of the multiband services really.  They all have much to learn from eachother.  Services which are not multibanding may get left behind as a new wave of social networking washes right over them.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

Several months ago I undertook a futuristic analysis. What I have found
is that I may have caught up with the present. Without that analysis, I
would be lagging. I am again perhaps abit ahead of the pack. What
follows is some random musings, upshot, and further projections.

The question arises at this juncture, does bit.ly have a distinct
advantage over other IT companies?

On the solidification of bubbles:

Blogging is an example. Is social media another bubble heading for
solidification? If so, the implication is that it will exert a profound
influence, but that it will also be relegated to its own domain,
limiting the effect. The old web will endure it, as it did blogosphere
emergence. The extreme example of this may be Technorati, a mountain
island. Twitter is arguably the latest mountain island, but the
situation is still evolving. Mountain island is a wonderful metaphor. Think of it. Japan is a mountain island. What if there were two
Japans? Three? etc? Now, break out of the metaphor. Can the old web
endure that? We are facing another wave of disruption. Services that
have intentionally broken meta-data for temporary advantage will be
hardest hit, and they should be getting busy before it is too late for
them.

Google is giving much precedence to the blogosphere over the social
networking space, because of the depth of the content. Can Google really care about soundbytes, tiny bubbles as it were. Another reason
for this precedence could be that the blogosphere predates the social
media space, and it is fully established. Social media is relatively
new and an upstart. One possible future direction for all of this
resides in the current trend to exploit file meta-data in twitter
clients in order to enrich the twitter user experience. An examination
of twitter-friendly apache file meta-data configuration is indicated,
because this trend may be moving into other arenas.

What about other trends; gay rights, cloning and biotech, infectious
disease, telepresence? On telepresence, services will emerge to provide twitter-friendly
personal files for access by social media. Those with blogs and
certain other services have sensed this, and they are already doing
it, but this trend is bound to grow. I see Google moving in this
direction, with a vastly improved personal profile and microblog
system. It is already happening. They are projecting inward to the
user, but the better aim is for the user to project outwards. Of course
this is also in part what blogging and social media actually is.

The other trends may recieve attention in future articles, as it were
;-}.

Back to bit.ly...

Meta-data munging by url-shortening services and link content caching
would be a possible projection, and one imagines that the plan is
already underway, and some aspects are already happening now.

On constriction of bubble size and solidification:

There are vested interests who would like to see all of these trends
limited in their scope. There are various strategies, such as
redirection of users to a small group of friends and related strategies.
Diversion. Degradation. Derision. Slander. These are integrative and
progressive strategies. "Shut up, no one cares what you have to say!";
a self-negating statement, but it often works.

All of this points again to a GNU-Darwin blog service. Blogs are
already well tailored to accurate meta-data representation and
telepresence projection. Maybe I will actually do it this time ;-}.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

Michael L. Love