A friend at work, Magnus Hultberg, put together this excellent overview of some of the latest "micro-blogging" services available. I asked if he would mind if I could reproduce it here and he kindly agreed.
Magnus writes...
"A current Internet trend and social network primer... Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are so last millennium.
For an interesting overview of how Team Obama used services like this in conjunction with networks like Facebook, Orkut, AsiaAve, Blackplanet and so on to drive fan base and leverage their own web site and all their digital communication, see this PDF:
blog.guykawasaki.com//OBAMA%20SNA%20Strategic_1.pdf
I am playing around with a lot of these micro blogging services right now. Two other very hot trends because of all of this mobile tweeting from Blackberries, iPhones and normal phones (almost all phones have a Twitter or a Jaiku app for on the go micro blogging) are location tracking (where are you in the world) and identity management (where are you on the web), parts of which is often refereed to as “lifestreaming”.
Brightkite, as I mentioned, is one of the most known location in the world services, another well known one that is up and coming is Fire Eagle (a Yahoo service).
www.brightkite.com , fireeagle.yahoo.net
When it comes to online identity management it is just a fancy expression for aggregating all you do online using APIs and RSS feeds to provide users with one central hub where all information they push out can be found, and verified as coming from them. Profilactic is a well known one, Friendfeed another. In these days of people using lots of online services distributed in the “cloud” that today is the Internet the need for such services are getting more and more apparent.
www.profilactic.com , www.friendfeed.com
Taking it one step further is Chi.mp, which does proper identity management in the sense that if you sign up for their service (still invitation only) you actually get what is called an Open ID which is a standard for authenticating you in any web site (as long as the site is integrating with the Open ID API of course). Portable online identity, one user name and password everywhere. Included in the standard is functionality to, as you sign in with a site the first time, decide how much of your personal information you want to share with them and if you want to do so one time only or indefinitely. Very interesting, and certainly something that potentially will be a big part of the future.
I am at manne.mp.
Geekier than most, I am of course using my personal web site to aggregate all of this stuff.
www.hultberg.org
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