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.

Since joining Re: I’ve put my blog energy into getting Re:thinking – (our company blog) off the ground. I think the guys at Re: did a killer job on our new site (based on WordPress), and it’s crucial for me to contribute to the blog. Maintaining two Danish blogs is too much for me to cope with at this moment, so I had to make a choice, and it was a no-brainer. I’m a Re: guy now

That being said, I quite like my supersocial domain, and I’ve been struggling with a way to put it to good use. As of now, it’ll be an aggregated blog (running on tumblr) of stuff about social software. It runs on feeds from my delish-bookmarks (tagged social), Flickr-pics (tagged social), posts from this blog and the one at Re:, Tweets, shared articles from my Google reader and some other stuff.

So consider it my personal social media filter. I hope some of you can put some of it to good use, and if not you can still follow my posts in Danish at Re:thinking.

Enjoy.

• The sleek design
• The beautiful back end (yes, I said beautiful back end. Go ahead and giggle)
• The shear simplicity of posting
• The richness it provided when importing feeds

But I left it because of a few things that I was seriously missing:

• Comments – why does this have to be one way? (I hear they’re working on that)
• Image feeds not showing up as images (they do – except the ones fetched via Jaiku – which is understandable)
• The fact that I was already well into Jaiku, which provided me with many of the same features and more (although not in nearly as well executed design, I might add)

Now, spurred on by a recent discussion on Jaiku, I’ve decided to give tumblr another go. So I’ve added a Tumblr link to my navigation, and i sincerely hope that tumblr fulills its potential. Because I really like the idea of it, and I still believe there’s something there. An as to why I put the link next to the RSS link. Well, it’s all in the spirit of syndication, right?

More on tumblelogs here.

BTW – someone out there must have some really cool ideas for using tumblelogs. Out of the box stuff. Drop a link or an idea in a comment.

It would be cool to get more people on Pownce. I think there’s potential in the product, but it sort of requires people for Pownce to be as sweet as it just might turn out to be, so act now and I’ll see ya in there