As I write a chapter on the future of social media for my SocialCorp book, I asked people on Twitter last night whether they had favorite social media apps and which if any offered hints at the future. Here are the responses:
- Imho, Qik, and Seesmic a close second. I have never seen a single 12second.tv video that made any sense whatsoever.
- chi.mp One profile to rule them all.
- Check out Socialbrowse.
- Tumblr and disqus
- none. i have tumblr, disqus, 12 seconds, but i wouldn't say any of them are predictors. i would say Twitter is the one i go to see what is happening around the world 24/7.
One of the more imaginative scenarios came from Chris Grayson who suggested "some cross between the iPhone App called Loopt with iChatAV and Second Life in a discrete virtual vision visor display built into your eye wear."
What do you think the future holds? What about Friendfeed and other aggregators? And whether you love or hate Plurk, and everyone either loves it or hates it, you have to give them credit for exploring a new user interface. Or not. Maybe Yammer and other apps that encroach on the corporate firewall, or internal clones like Pfizer's Pfacebook and IBM's BlueTwit will become popular.
Or finally, on a more humorous note, maybe the future is Bitter, the social network for people sick of social networks.
Internet Superstar - Episode 66 - Bitter.com - Watch more free videos
SO COME ONE! SPEAK UP! WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Please add your ideas for most progressive or innovative applications to the comments on this post. Thank you!
Tags: , chi.mp, tumblr, disqus, twitter, seesmic, 12seconds, qik, iphone, loopt, ichatav, second life, future of social media, plurk, friendfeed, yammer
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