Daily Dose of social media: put Twitter’s #followfriday to good use

Sqworl: A Simple Way to Share Groups of Bookmarks — There are a lot of social bookmarking sites out there, but Sqworl has to be the easiest to use and understand. The concept of Sqworl is a little different than most social bookmarking sites, as it is built around the concept of grouping links together. Let’s say there was a flood in town, a group of users could get together and create a group called “Town flood” and put links into this group of news accounts, Twitter status messages, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, etc.

It seems to be a great way to put links together about a specific event or topic. Once you have links in your group, you can then easily share it with anyone. I also really like how clean and simple the interface is. It’s not cluttered like a lot of social bookmarking sites. It’s also visual, and shows screenshots of your links.

Very nice.

Sqworl Screencast from Caleb Brown on Vimeo.

TopFollowFriday — Now we can finally put that #followfriday hashtag on Twitter to good use. You know the hashtag I’m talking about: the one where people recommend users for others to follow every Friday. Here is a good description of TopFollowFriday:

[It's] a website that can be used to filter and choose to trust or not trust something, based on the reputation of the person who created the content.  Based on #followfriday, a growing Twitter ad-hoc event that occurs each Friday, Scott’s new site tracks #followfriday, and then records the endorsements, allowing users to chart the changes.

Essentially, you can see how many endorsements somebody has. As #followfriday continues to grow, this site will become more relevant. Also, you can track if a person is getting more and less recommendations as time goes on. (Tip submitted by Daniel Bachhuber)

At SXSWi, Twitter is the new Twitter is the new Twitter — Just when you think Twitter has reached a saturation point and is no longer useful or relevant, it proves its worth again.

We saw this at ONA08 as well. Twitter has become a central part of many conferences. Can you imagine not being able to share your thoughts, experiences, what you learn, etc while at a conferences like SXSW or ONA? Twitter makes for a better experience and really has changed conference going forever.

Maybe the panel you are attending sucks. You can hop on Twitter, check the #SXSW hashtag and see the panel that everyone is raving about. Twitter has also become an indispensable communication tool for organizing impromptu get togethers at conferences.