Poets And Plumbers / MySpace.

I just hosted a seminar alongside Poets and Plumbers. It was all about MySpace – where are they at right now, how do they view their position in the Danish market (dominated by Facebook) and finally – and most interestingly – what they future holds for one of the grand old players on the social networking scene.

I must say, I’m pretty impressed by the plans forming at MySpace, and by their aproach when it comes to localisation. As the image shows, MySpace are comitted to a local presence in a host of different markets (Denmark among others), and actually managed to become THE social network in Germany, probably because of a very early localised version.

Anyhoo – watch out for MySpace in 09. There are some very interesting things just around the corner. Especially if you’re into music. Actually, if you can get your hands on an American I.P. adress you can check out some of the new stuff already.

Smooth integration with ALL of you favorite social sites and services, be that flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, WordPress or whatever. Feeds, searches and mediastreams right in the address bar and all the joy of those fancy Firefox extentions.

Get it! Get it now! Get it here, sign up for private beta of 1.0 here, or read the story of how Flock made the TechCrunch40 here.

Yes, apparently so.

A few people I know have recently decided to stop feeding content from their blogs into their profiles on social networks.

I have considered doing the same for a while, seeing as duplicating could very well lead to a ban from almighty Google, but so far, I’m still duplicating.

Why, you may ask?

Well, the main resaon is that I like being a part of different contexts online. As a person who works with the internet and is passionate about social software, I feel obligated to being so. Also, I communicate with a lot of different people who seem to prefer different services for reading and writing content. That being said, there is no way in hell I can find the time to think up original content specifically for each service – and why should I? If I find something interesting, I should put it right here, right – on my own blog?

Therefore, I feed my content into various services, and cross my fingers. So far, I haven’t been banned by Google, and incidentally, I might add that the main drivers of traffic for appoulsen.dk are exactly the networks that I feed my content into. So if I decided to cater to the wishes of Google I might actually lose readers. And I don’t want that now, do I?

I tend to get so excited, when I see opportunities for trying out new pieces of software, joining new networks and having a look at who’s there and so on and so forth. And I do believe that networking and social software wil grow stronger and stronger in the years to come. But sometimes I wonder how many networks I really NEED to join?

Asides from having joined a couple of groups at flickr, betatesting imity, and a bunch of other stuff, I’m also on LinkedIn, and I’m pretty sure it’s the place where I can get in touch with the most people, should I need to.

But recently, kommunikationsforum (a Dansih website about communication) launched a network, and I couldn’t help but join. Maybe I’m hoping that this network will cater to my specific interests (communication and what not) and my network at LinkedIn will be bigger and more diverse? But maybe networks are like newsletters – You sign up to a bunch of them but end up using only a few?