Social Media Now 09.06.08

Of course everybody has been talking about Hurricane Gustav, and a flurry of resources emerged to track the storm and communicate with friends and family. Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb created a fine collection of resources both for Hurricane Gustav and the next ones…

In a New York Times article, Clive Thompson
writes about “ambient awareness”, a term social scientists use to describe the effect that apps like Facebook, Tumblr, Doppler, Twitter and even Loopt on the iPhone have on society, helping us keep a a constant eye on our friends, where they are and what they are doing and how this is becoming a norm.

Jason Falls wrote a guest post on Conversation Agent about the future of social media and “the agency” (not the FBI).

The Forrester Groundswell Awards has a bunch of new entries. Every one is worth spending some time with and it’s not to late to add your own entry, the deadline is September 9.

Over at Mashable, Mark Hopkins just couldn’t resist pointing out that FriendFeed is suddenly showing some of the favorites you might not have wanted to share with the world. Apparently Vimeo changed the ID’s used in the feeds and refreshed their links, and all those savory tidbits you favorited years ago on YouTube  and forgot about are coming to the fore. Check your profiles folks.

Bright Shiny Objects
Status is a Microblogging app for the enterprise, allowing users to connect inside the enterprise just like Twitter, complete with archived messaging and can be accessed from a mobile, a desktop widget or online.

Several new monetization schemes popped up for Twitter.

Twittad replaces your background image with an ad.

Twittertise lets you schedule your tweets and then gives you back tracking and stats on who read it.

Adjix is a link shortener like TinyURL, but they insert a link that creates a small pop-up ad when your friends click on it.