Weekly Social Web Bytes

Written by Saran on Saturday, August 2nd 2008

I’m taking this moment to launch a weekly post series titled “Weekly Social Web Bytes” that concerns new and emerging trends in the social web today. I intend to provide news that matters to anyone that have an interest towards the social media background. For the rest, its just some piece of new information for you from my RSS reader.

This week seems to be busy throughout the blogosphere and the social web. Diving in towards the blogosphere, news, friends and people I adore

Michael Martin of Pro Blog Design has some unique collection of RSS icons again. Well if you are skeptical on choosing your RSS icons, well he did sort that out for me with his previous 60 RSS Icons collections. This time his gathered 50 RSS Icons for you.
Apparently Yahoo is in the midst of making some changes to its default search experience in a while to add some more spice to it for the right flavor? Perhaps to prevent any further buyout proposals? It is said that Search Monkey is a key part of Yahoo’s attempts to embrace the semantic web. Looks like some good user experience is on its way.
Well, this is a bit of the social web but I its kind off related. Scientist have found water on Mars! Alright go ahead with the huray! and so on. But the part I’m informing you is that, the guys from the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif informed it to the world first with Twitter! Go ahead on follow them on @MarsPhoenix. There were rumors that’s Phoenix was messaging from Mars. Well, its rumors, what can you say more.
I was browsing my del.icio.us feeds, I came across this. Something I guess might be similar to Radian 6, a social media analytic tool. Well it is called SM2 by Techrigy. Its more for the PR people. Well I would not be recommending that anyway. If I would, I would for Radian 6.

That’s all folks. Tune in next week at the same time for more social web news & updates.

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Tags: NASA, rss, social media, subscribers, techcrunch, twitter, yahoo

4 Comments Posted

Michael Martin Said,

August 2nd, 2008 @7:58 am

Thanks for the link! I like link roundup posts like this because it’s nice to see what other people have come across throughout the week. Makes it much easier to keep up with everything worth reading! I hope the series goes well for you. :)

Saran Said,

August 2nd, 2008 @11:48 am

Hey Michael, No problem at all..

Been a great reader of your blog since the beginning. I seriously do hope as well that the post would work out. Hopping for the best. Thanks for dropping by.

Aaron Newman Said,

August 3rd, 2008 @3:33 am

Saran,

Thanks for mentioning us. I encourage you to try out our freemium version (http://sm2.techrigy.com) and send us feedback. We have a pretty large freemium community (over 1000 users) and if there is a reason you wouldn’t recommend us - let me know :) We care about what people (such as yourself) think and really want to help in any way we can.

Regards,
Aaron
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August 3rd, 2008 @7:40 pm

Well Aaron, I did give a try. I must admit, its pretty good. But just to let you know on why I would not recommend it in terms of my views.

I would prefer a desktop client rather than a web app due to graphic and accessibility reasons.

But besides that, SM2 is a pretty good product. I would suggest people to try it out and see how it works for them.

Btw, thx for the concern. Do appreciate it.

Saravanan Sahadevan