Nowadays, more and more people are using Facebook and Twitter as tools to not only share and socialize with friends, but to also follow the things that grab their interests and attention. People are beginning to find ways to effectively communicate posts and messages with more accuracy and relevancy with the use of hashtags. People are discovering the latest trends in fashion, music, arts, sports, technology etc.
While it is obvious that social media is here to stay, there are critical questions facing the future of social media. Questions like, “How can we effectively and productively connect?” “How do we receive information that which is relevant to our personal interest?” “How do we filter our own streams without having Google, Facebook, Twitter or some interest bot do it for us?” & “How much social media can we actually consume?”
Looking to the future, Cisco IBSG predicts there will be 25 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2015, and 50 billion by 2020.” Both the types of information we can share will dramatically increase, and the number of people from whom we can receive this content will also grow. Providing people more ways to share online is no longer the challenge. A new paradigm of relevancy is now emerging, which goes beyond the question of whether “to follow or not follow” or “to friend or not friend.” Due to the increase in real time content, Facebook and Twitter are attempting to do the filtering of our streams for us, such that we only see what they think most interests us. Could there be a better way? A way where content consumers get to see the content they are interested in and content distributors can target their posts to their target audience.
Follow too many Fan Pages and all of a sudden your News Feed becomes cluttered with too much information. Facebook has incorporated edgerank algorithm to learn from your engagement and site activity so it can show you the posts it thinks you want to see. But the reality is that you are the only one that knows what you truly want to see at the given moment.
Twitter has added “Group” and “List” features to help curate your interest streams. But the problem is that the only variable determining your interest stream in a list is the people you put into a list. Why use the individual user as the only variable that determines the distribution of an interest stream when most people nowadays are so dynamic and share information on different topics like news, sports, entertainment, politics, fashion, music, etc…? Could there be a better way of creating a real-time interest relevant feed from your social networks?
You have sites like TweetDeck, Hootsuite, Friendfeed that aggregate your social networks to bring them under one dashboard. While they are on the right track as far as wrapping the social web together, they still can’t differentiate the relevant posts from the social spam and clutter that naturally come as your social network grows. To me they got it all backwards. They’re taking the noise from your individual social networks and just adding bigger noise. Noise + Noise = Twice the Noise.
Qweboo Combines Your Facebook and Twitter Feeds
Follow a few hundred people, like a few posts and your social media feeds quickly becomes cluttered with useless noise obscuring the content that really matters. Qweboo does not do the thinking for you. It works with you by allowing you to control and fine tune information that you want to see right now. Qweboo makes the social web smarter, enabling you to create your own social web around your interests.
Luis Andres was a young college student at the University of Southern California in the fall of 1999. He came up with what was arguably one of the earliest takes on social networking: instead of going to Yahoo (the leading search portal at the time) to search for content, it came to you in your email inbox by the people and groups that you trusted.
The Dot Com bust of 2002 spoiled his plans but only temporarily since by late 2010 (“after being frustrated with the noise and spam in my twitter home feed“), he refurbished the concept as a social media aggregator that would fetch posts from Twitter and Facebook and organize them into what he called Live Pages – mini social networks built around your favorite topics of interests that update in real-time.
The system uses hastags to create groups (Community Mode) and also acts as a filter (Discovery Mode). For example, put ‘sports’ into Community Mode and this live page will only fetch posts containing the word sports. Now add your favorite sports like Basketball, Baseball, Football, Soccer etc in Discovery Mode to narrow down and curate the feed.
About Their Plans
Their basic idea is to make it really simple for a user to send targeted tweets/posts to their followers. Publishers, bloggers, content creators will now have a very powerful yet simple way to target their posts to interested followers by using the human element of Smart Live Tagging a post. Smart Live Tagging is strategically tagging posts from broad to narrow keywords .
Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and even facebook users are already tagging posts and tweets with hash tags. It’s knowing how to decipher and use hashtags for proper use what’s key to maximize content relevance and target audience distribution . Qweboo’s site dynamics will do this for you by matching the interest relevance from the Live tagging done within the Qweboo community. Through a little bit of competitive web crowdsourcing and proper user compensation, Qweboo will let you build and own your social web without taking away the social human element in the process…
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