SEO Mentor

So with all the buzz about Twitter and all the million blog posts done about this new Social Networking site, lo and behold another similar site pops up and is the talk of the web. So what is this new social site well it is Plurk.com and it is causing a storm. Some people have been calling it Twitter on meth, but you be the judge. Is Plurk just a Twitter Clone?

Social Media Mom, Kristen Munson talks about how she was , “At first I was a bit overwhelmed and did not see the attraction.” If you would like to see what others are saying about Plurk then check out all the recent posts at Sphinn.com and watch this video below from YouTube.com explaining what exactly Plurk is and how to use it:

Now that I am using Plurk I have found things that I really like and hate when comparing it to Twitter. First of all I really like the timeline concept that Plurk uses and I love the more visual effect it gives. I also like that you can divide friends into cliques. Some things I don’t like is that there is not a easy mobile updater like Twitter has although I have heard they are working on making the mobile “SMS” option easy and accessible.

So I will let you all decide what you think. For me I use it and like it for the most part. You can start following me at http://www.plurk.com/user/yourseomentor!

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If you are not using FriendFeed you are missing out on a great tool that helps you add disparate accounts across blogs and social networking services such as Twitter, StumbleUpon, YouTube, and many more. Friendfeed aggregates them so friends can follow what you’re doing in one place, think of it as a one stop shop for all your social networking updates and news items. The company was founded by ex-Googlers, and using it is easy.

Here is what Crunchbase.com is saying about what FriendFeed is:

“FriendFeed is a service which, instead of layering a meta-network on top of all your other social networks, will create a news feed incorporating them all much like the facebook news feed. It’s an idea that isn’t too difficult or bothersome for social network users to adopt.

Users tell the feed which networks they belong to (Facebook, Digg, Last.fm etc) and FriendFeed personalizes your data feed with info from each of the sites.

Other companies, such as Spokeo, ProfileLinker, MyLifeBrand and the more recent Fuser, are trying to help you organize your online social identity as well, all in different ways.”

So I joined FriendFeed a while back and have found that it is another great tool that helps me keep up on what all my social friends are doing online one of those being Dave Harry of Huomah.com. Not only do I love to follow everything that Dave is talking about online (because it is usually entertaining and intellectual) but what I really wanted to let everyone know about was the public rooms he has created on FriendFeed:

• the SEM Room
• the Learn SEO Room
• the SphinnZone Room

Here are some other people that I follow on FriendFeed and really I try and follow them everywhere:

Ann Smarty
David Wallace
Kristen Munson – Social Media Mom
Danny Sullivan
Shana Albert – theNanny
Jason Calacanis
SpostareDuro – Kimberly Bock
Bill Slawski

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