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.

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 ...

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 ...