social media

I was recently looking for a little diversion, so I fired up my iPhone and looked up the top free games. It's not uncommon for this list to contain limited demos and other apps that try to sell you on premium, paid version, but usually a little time on the free demo is enough for me.

This time I decided to download a game called GodFinger which is a Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game with a cute, drag-and-drop interface. The reviews weren't stellar but I thought I'd give it a try.

At Podcamp London today co-web geek Anthony Vella-Zarb and I gave a presentation on using Drupal for social media. Includes some introductory information on Drupal, including why it's great for online communities, and the power of the community behind it.

We also talked about some of the modules that make Drupal great for social web sites, focusing mainly on Service Links, Flickr, Picasa, iTunes, Embedded Media Field, Activity Stream, the Facebook modules, and Twitter. After some illustrations and a quick example, we moved on to offering up some resources for learning more.

Came across this interesting application of twitter, implemented as a kind of exclusive subset:
http://www.exectweets.com/

It'll be interesting to see how many more of these spring up.