Social Media (6)

I've been around the CMS block a few times. From more "old-school" solutions such as PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, and their ilk, to Wordpress, Joomla, and now Drupal. I'm always looking for something better, easier, slicker, nicer, and more powerful yet easier. And I think I've found that in Drupal. However, Joomla's got some pretty nice features and capabilities as well. Although both seem to have one glaring omission in their power and flexibility: social dating sites.

Digg released the Recommendation Engine into private beta today... Luckily, my account was special enough to get to sneak a peak at the beta, and have been using it all day... I came back from the store, checked Upcoming, and I see not just one, but TWO recommended submissions about the brand new news-to-me Chrono Trigger DS countdown!! omgomgomg!! This is truly a testament to me about how good this new system is.

Shortly after seeing the digg post about the preview of the recommendation engine for digg's new upcoming section, the tab had turned on on my profile, and let me just say this: It's so much better!

Hmm... Apparently I had no clear-cut category to put this in... Either Social Media, or Web, but Social Media I think will get this one. Anyways, I digress... Today, Yahoo released their newest beta for Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta, and let me say so far, it's pure awesomeness! Some great streamlining of the UI, new options including the greatest status/message bar combo ever implemented, I think, and icons for people whom Yahoo calls "All-Stars" or "Power Users", or whatever.Read the whole thing...

Just a mere few days after I play with Twitterlocal and syndicate the appropriate feed here on Slap/Pop, Twitter themselves roll out a new features for search right from the home page of your account.

I've been using Twitter a lot recently, and it's one of those things that's now starting to become automatic. I don't have many followers, and mostly it's me posting random crap to an audience of less than three. But it's enjoyable nonetheless, and it's a sort of chronology of what I do throughout the day.