Media Socialist is a blog about, and a testing ground for, social media online.

That means we're gluttons for blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, wikis, user-generated video, photo-sharing, and everything Web 2.0.

Top Social Networks Here and Abroad 2009

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 by Griffin Hammond

Last year I compiled a large list of popular social networks in the U.S. and around the world. Using recent data from Alexa, I've updated the list for June 2009. What's Changed Since Last Year Facebook, which had already beat MySpace globally, surpassed its rival in the U.S., and stole a lot of ...

Ars Technica takes a look at Delicious 2

Friday, August 1st, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

Technology news site Ars Technica go hands on with the redesign of del.icio.us (now just Delicious) Popular social bookmarking service del.icio.us has finally unveiled one of its most significant and anticipated redesigns since launching in 2003. Ars Technica went hands on to see what Yahoo has in store for the next ...

Why is blue the most popular color in social media?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it. Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...

Top Social Networks Here and Abroad 2008

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Click here for 2009 Rankings I've compiled a large list of popular social networks in the U.S. and around the world, and using the most recent Alexa rankings, I've made a list of the most popular social networks here and abroad. "Global rank" and "U.S. rank" represent web traffic compared to every ...

Facebook Social Media Importer

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

I'm not proud to say that Facebook, which I usually keep up with, announced this a while back, and I only today noticed it. In your profile's mini-feed, you can click the "Import" link and connect your Facebook profile with your profiles from: Flickr Del.icio.us YouTube StumbleUpon Last.fm Your blog feed (RSS) Digg Picasa Yelp Google Reader Pandora Hulu I just added my ...

Top 30 Social Bookmarkers

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

A statistical analysis by eBizMBA ranks 30 social bookmarkers, or smarkers (as I like to call them), in order of popularity. Perhaps this gives me a nice gague for which ones to try out, and in what order. Here are the top 6: Digg (I've tried) Technorati (I use as a social media ...

Embedding Social Media in this blog…

Friday, June 6th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

...is being more difficult than it should. Last night I added my Twitter "tweet" (feed) to the right side of this page. Integrates well, but the problem is the javascript code can only handle one user. (Ideally I'd add other people's tweets underneath, but currently that seems impossible.) It also seems like ...