I am proud to announce the merger of Twitter and LinkedIn. The new company's name will be Twinked-In! The new logo is already designed! Okay ... maybe these two firms don't know they're merging, but imagine ...
... Do you really want to know what I had for breakfast (bowl of cereal ... follow my Nerd Tweets). Maybe you're a friend and you are curious how I'll do in this weekend's marathon (Grandma's Marathon in Duluth). However, you may be interested in following my professional posts ... but the signal to noise ratio when using social media like Twitter is driving you crazy! Thus, imagine Twinked-In. Via LinkedIn (and other social networking sites) I already have some good filters in place. Why can't I use these filters to easily turn "on and off" the content I wish to monitor? (no ... the answer is NOT Tweetdeck).
My point is it's just to darned difficult to create effective, and valuable Twitter networks. In my case, I've invested the time to create my various "groups", but most people will give up before they reach nirvana. Social networking sites are great, but once again there is too much static. Is this what Google Wave will be all about? Yesterday I was interviewed by two Microsoft usability experts. They were researching forward looking users applications and interfaces. Filters!
Here are some LinkedIn filters I would use in conjunction with Twitter ... first my connections (with sub-filters): (November 10, 2009 update to this post)
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Or perhaps my groups (with sub-filters)
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Finally, I could use Search with filters (in this case on MEMS)
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