Most of the people around the globe use social networking applications like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and so on to communicate and be in touch with the person they know and give value. This is the social web and we are the one who make them. Creating, sharing and collaborating have been the principle doctrines that drive the Web 2.0 or the Social Web. Like many other people like you, I also use quite a few social networking and user-driven applications. I have a big fan of Facebook like millions of people are around the globe.

Different people use Facebook for different reasons. May be some would like to play games with their friends, share information, make formal or informal communication with their buddies and keen eye on others social activity. I especially use Facebook to share the information (especially related to technology, politics and business) and collaborate on these stuffs. But I have not seen many people doing so may be because they do not like to or they don’t know how to do it. For the people who would like to use Facebook as I do, I hope this post may be quite useful.

I use quite a few social applications and information aggregators beside Facebook like Delicious, Digg, Google Reader, Last.fm, Flickr, Google Picasa, Hulu and so on with also creating  my own contents in the form of Blogging (My own site) and Micro-blogging (Twitter). One of the main reason why I like Facebook is that it lets me integrate these platforms and applications with ease and let me to share with my friends.

Integrating with Facebook

Integrating other popular social applications and aggregators is quite easy.

• In the wall section of your Facebook profile page go to Import tab.
  
• Then you will notice something like this:
  
  Since I have already imported number of available sites so, I can just edit edit these sites.
• Now by just clicking in one of these sites that you use you will be able to import your activities to the Facebook.
      
  By entering your Flickr and delicious user name you will be able to import your information and stuffs of the respected sites.
• This is what you will notice after import is successful:
  
  
  
  I have now imported my blog, Delicious bookmarks and Flickr photos
• After some unspecified time (may be hours or so) you will begin to notice the activities of the respected sites being imported in your profile page and also in your friends’ news feed.
  
  
  Here are my Hulu video link with the rating I have done and Delicious bookmarks activities in my profile page.
• Besides these you can also integrate your Twitter account and facebook. Here is the link.
  
  If you don’t know what twitter is, Twitter is a popular micro-blogging service and quite similar to Facebook’s Status service. One of the main advantage of Twitter is that you can port your twitter statuses or informally called tweets in different platforms and applications. More information here.

I hope you will find these information useful and productive. As usual comments and criticisms are very much appreciated.

Today is the historic day. America has chosen its 44th president. Barack Obama is the first African American to lead the world’s most powerful country. Beside the charismatic speech of Obama and being a wonderful of debater I am quite impressed by the use of technology by his campaign. As compared to his rival John McCain and Hillary Clinton, the use of Web 2.0 technologies by Obama campaign was fascinating. This presidential election has proved the importance and magnitude of impact the Web 2.0 tools could have. Without any doubt Obama was successful in utilizing those platforms for communicating his message of change.

Just 4 years ago, there were no tools like twitter, facebook, myspace, you tube and so on.  There is even an iPhone application for Barack Obama. This presidential race will be taken as an example how a micro media platforms of blogging,live bloggin, micro blogging, sharing can be a powerful mechanism of communication.

The small individual donation that Obama campaign was able to get via internet was also one of important factor of Obama out spending McCain. The use of the Internet and Web 2.0 technologies has been crucial factors for the unprecedented victory of Barack Obama.

Some public profiles of Obama

• Twitter - http://twitter.com/barackobama

• Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/barackobama
• MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/barackobama

The age of micro media has come so, I request everyone to come to be the part of the world of creating a content, sharing with the world and collaborating. Now, you are the media.