Jaiku/Twitter/Facebook/Kyte/Plaxo = something happening you should pay attention to « Scobleizer

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Why am I using these services nearly every hour of my waking life? Because they are being talked about and I want to learn what is making people so passionate — nearly everyone in the industry I meet either loves these things or despises them. It seems that every conversation lately is about one of these five services and how they’re potentially changing how we communicate with each other. Translation: there’s a lot of hype here and we’re trying to figure out what they are good for and whether the hype is justified. In my opinion: it is.

I’m not sure what we should call this group of apps. Presence updaters? Microbloggers? Social networkers?

(((You call 'em anything but "weblogs," because that term is getting old-fashioned. At SXSW Interactive I was boldly opining that there wouldn't be a lot of "blogs" around in ten years. There will be SOME blogs around in ten years –about as many as there are "Bulletin Board Systems" still hanging around today.)))