What’s your email address? I have made a comment on your blog, All You Need Is A Good Idea!

I registered a profile on LinkedIn some years ago, but I have recently started to use it more, at least as a signature in my email messages. http://Martin.Lindeskog.name/CV is redirected to my LinkedIn page.

Thanks for the update regarding the widget.

I have registered a profile at FriendFeed, but I haven’t got the hang of it yet. After I listened to a podcasting show at Small Business Radio in July with Brian Wallace (“Everyone’s Twittering But Are You Plurking Yet?”), I signed up for Plurk. I like the timeline feature with the possibility to scroll back in the history. As I said in a comment on The App Gap that will give a clue that Twitter will be around for a long time, if you look at previous business ventures.

“WordPress has become very popular, but please send a mental thank-you note to two of the pioneers in the blogosphere, namely Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan of Pyra Labs. They were the co-founders of Blogger.com. Ev Williams then started Twitter”

Hi Martin and anyone else interested in the widget:

I heard back from the people at Business Exchange. They are working on some issues with regard to the personalized widget that will display your favorites and your topics. They expect it to be ready within a week or two, to the public.

– Anita

Regarding Swurl, it looks like a prettier version of FriendFeed. But I will not be trying it out. It doesn’t offer enough differentiation from FriendFeed, Tumblr, etc.

And you see, that’s where social media fatigue comes in. When people become fatigued, they lose all tolerance to try newcomers unless those newcomers are heads above any existing solution — or unless the newcomers offer something very different or something the user values specifically (like the business-focus I value in BusinessExchange).

Anita

Did you find the answer regarding the widget? I wonder if other business magazines, e.g. The Economist will come up with something similar?

I have a bit of social media “fatigue” too. I haven’t logged in at my Facebook account for weeks and I can’t get the Twitter and Plurk messages rolling… I recently signed up for Swurl. Do you have any opinion on this site? I think I will be more active with different micro blogging sites when I start up my podcasting show again. Then I could write short messages about future quests, topics, ask for questions and feedback, etc.

By the way: Do you have suggestions for a new mobile phone? Please read my latest post, Mobile Talk on Tech Tuesday. Ah Eureka, I will Twitter about this

I happily plead “guilty.” Yes, that’s exactly the case. I value the connections and branding visibility of this particular social media network.

We make judgments all day long about which magazines to read, which websites to visit, which conferences to attend, which products to buy, etc. All such judgments are subjective. In such cases I may look at the brand, the people I have the opportunity to network with, and other factors.

So, yes, I find this particular social media site valuable, whereas I would not find the same value in joining MySpace or Orkut or some other more general social network. When faced with social media fatigue, I become much much more selective.

– Anita