The rage of the chickens

In these days, following some friends, I’ve started using and testing tools like twitter and tumblr, as well as signin in Facebook. I knew about them since months but before I haven’t found the stimulus to try them.

I do believe that all these apps where we all can become publishers of content, require a specific factor to become relevant to each one of us. The critical mass. One of the success factor of eBay, that allow it to become a market killer although no being the first e-auction service launched, has been the user rating system. This is an earlier exemple of what this web 2.0 is all about and is sustained by the fact of having a critical mass of users and therefore judgers. You still can sell and buy in eBay if you are a newbe to it, but, expecially if you want to promote your items, it is really clear that who don’t know you would like to have information prior to place an order and send mony.

You need the critical mass behind. But how can you get it? Answers can be multiple and the various web tools that are emerging today allow you to obtain it in an easier wey (for exemple the various feed aggregator services).

On the other way you need to gain respect from the users. It may then mean posting something interesting in your blog, having an interesting profile in your Linkedin account. That makes the difference from being a writer or a contributor on the web.

I’ll get back on this subject later on