Social Blend the 13th: Mixx is ahead of the Social Media game
Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Joe Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.Blogspot.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), and Reem Abeidoh (Nomadelle from ReemAbeidoh.com), the Social Blend examines the latest news and opinions hitting the world of social media. The show’s main focus is on Mixx.com, yet focuses on other sites and contenders in the social media field.
We’re proud to announce and welcome our new permanent co-host, Reem Abeidoh aka Nomadelle, to the Social Blend crew. She will keep us in line! Also, we’re continuing the latest Mixx Challenge – and our objective is FriendFeed.com. Hit them up at feedback@friendfeed.com and tell them you want Mixx to be added to their service! And while you’re there, sign up for what they’ve got running too!
Following Chris McGill’s big announcement for Mixx we dove straight into Social Media news: examining specifically how Mixx is currently ahead of the social media game. We discuss how certain social news sites who once were innovators, now are copying these new features being rolled out by Mixx for Mixxers…
We also take a look at a real life Rick Roll (who would have thought?), and discuss the story of the Moroccan Facebook Poser. Greg takes a dive into some more Mixx photos, and Brian brings up the sad news of Arthur C. Clarke passing away. Jay and Greg get overexcited about Boondock Saints news, and following this, the crew gets involved in a debate surrounding the story of a prisoner unable to see his dying daughter.
Our User Focus is Edith01 this week – and as usual we talk of some Comments of the Week and jump into the Mixx Lounge.
Mixx Campaign II: FriendFeed.com
FriendFeed
http://www.friendfeed.com/
E-mail them!
feedback@friendfeed.com
Social Blend and Mixx News
Reem Abeidoh – new Social Blend co-host
http://www.reemabeidoh.com/
An open DIGG campaign to MIXXERS
http://www.mixx.com/photos/160153/an_open_digg_challenge_for_mixxers
An Open Mixx Challenge to Displeased Diggers
http://www.the-trukstop.com/articles/2008/displeased_diggers.html
Is Digg Growing or Stalling?
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/6190/Is-Digg-Growing-or-Stalling?tickers
Stories of the Week
The Real Life Rick Roll – Live
http://www.mixx.com/videos/161924/the_real_life_rick_roll
Jailed Moroccan Facebook Poser Released and Pardoned
http://www.mixx.com/stories/160862/jailed_moroccan_facebook_poser_released_and_pardoned
Could this be a Good Reason to Boycott the Olympics?
http://www.mixx.com/photos/157690/a_good_reason_to_boycott_the_olympics_
Ahhhhh!
http://www.mixx.com/photos/153589/_ahhhh_
Arthur C. Clarke dies at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka
http://www.mixx.com/stories/158167/arthur_c_clarke_dies_at_age_of_90_in_sri_lanka_los_angeles_times
Boondock Saints: All Saint’s Day – officially announced
http://www.mixx.com/stories/159994/the_boondock_saints_2_gets_a_greenlight_film
Girl’s Dying Wish Denied; Imprisoned Father not coming home
http://www.mixx.com/stories/162021/girl_s_dying_wish_denied_imprisoned_father_not_coming_home
User Focus
Edith01
http://www.mixx.com/users/edith01
Comment of the Week
AlbionShores
http://www.mixx.com/photos/160153/an_open_digg_challenge_for_mixxers
The Mixx Lounge
http://www.mixx.com/lounge
Greg’s Mail Sack
Send your hate mail to:
socialblend@gmail.com
Or
cGt2099@sbcglobal.net
We don’t support Mixx because they don’t have an RSS feed for each user — only an RSS feed with the most popular stories for the whole site. A per-user RSS feed is required for us to add support to FriendFeed.com.
I am contacting Mixx separately, but wanted to let you know that we would love to support Mixx, but Mixx does not currently support the functionality required for us to do so.
Bret- Thanks a ton for getting back to us! When we inquired, that is not exactly the response we got- but now that we know, it has moved to the top of our queue and will be done next week.
Let us know who we should contact please. We love FriendFeed and are excited to e a part of it!
Kudos to the Mixx fans as well- you guys are the best!
Wow, drama already in the first few minutes!
duh! of course Mixx is ahead of the game..why do you think i use it???
lol
damn it started at the beginning when i posted that comment. you should change that un-feature.
@yoda,
Sorry dude, that’s not something we built, that’s an issue with the podpress plugin for wordpress.
@yoda Once I was about 45 minutes into it and I clicked a link on the page which made me losemy place. It took me about 10 minutes to search through a find where I was. Note to self: turn on social blend in another window and leave it alone.