Social Networking: Taking Off or Taking a Dive? - ReadWriteWeb. Recently, there have been a few conflicting reports about the current popularity of social networks here in the U.S.
On one hand, you have reports that point toward the growth of social networks and their continuing crossover into mainstream use. On the other hand, recently released stats on visitor data show that these networks are maturing and plateauing. FriendFeed - enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages all. 6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds - ReadWriteWeb. RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years.
It allows users to easily keep track of news from multiple web sites because updates are delivered directly to them. But the problem many people face is that there are so many sources of information that we're trying to keep track of, we've become buried. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Reader's shared items.