Our 10 Top Social Media Platforms / Tools
What are yours?
(GBR) I fired an email round to the MediaSnackers trainers asking for their top ten social media platforms / tools (no stipulations—just a simple question).
Here’s their responses:
Barney
- Skype
- vlc mediaplayer
- bubbl.us
- Azureus
- (if it lives up to the hype…) Slide Rocket is already one of my favourites (and it hasn’t come out yet, am signed up for the Beta version)
- buzzword
- Facebook (love/hate thing)
- Google docs
- Wikipedia (great starting place for research)
- pbWiki
Bobbie
Guy
- Netvibes—king of RSS readers, home of my to-do lists, etc
- Gmail—queen of email
- Tumblr—currently how I’m archiving interesting stuff rather than using delicious… Nice and simple, bookmarklet works well too
- Flickr—duke of photosharing sites, best example out there of how you can manage a huge disparate group of users and still get them to behave (cf. Youtube)
- Facebook—because I still love it no matter what the haterz say, and one day it or one of its siblings will approach a de facto “standard”.
- Twitter—kind of for the same reason… I don’t think it’s necessarily that much cop yet but it’s pretty cool on a theoretical / experimental level at the very least. They really should go for text-mad kids though.
- Skype—pretty much the only IM client out there that let me set up a group chat with my mates over eighteen months ago… and continue the chat to this day, providing 9-to-5 comfort to the tired and weary.
- Hype Machine—syndicates and streams MP3 blogs, pretty cool for finding new stuff, in the “hipster demographic” anyway.
- Bug Me Not—true altruistic crowdsourcing for the can’t-be-bothered-to-signup generation
- This one bookmarklet——
- Ask Metafilter—wonderfully useful, endlessly interesting, 0% dicking about. Never ever use Yahoo Answers again.
Mark
Mine
- Google Reader
- Evernote
- Skype
- Flickr
- SlideRocket
- Facebook (for now)
- Google Docs
- Blip
- Animoto
- XtimeLine
What are yours?
