10 Things I Love: Conversation

One thing I love among all others is the simple art of conversation. I initially created this blog in the first place to share interesting items with my friends, so we could later discuss about what it contained.

Conversation is indeed an art form, and with the world-wide adaptation of the Internet and our evolving mobile society, it has extended beyond the borders of our towns and even countries.

After over 5 years of blogging, I have reached a milestone: the 1,000th entry. To celebrate I decided to do a ground-up redesign of the site and include some of my favorite services from the social media world, including the services I’ve had the some of the best conversations lately.

On the front page you will find my FriendFeed updates, which pretty much catalog everything I do on the Internet on a daily basis. FriendFeed is this wonderful service that combines all your favorite social networking/bookmarking sites in a friendly stream that others can comment on and discus with other users.

It imports services like Blog RSS Feeds, Twitter, Flickr, Last.FM, Picasa, YouTube, Delicious, GoodReads, and much more. If there is a social networking site that has an API (advanced programming interface), FriendFeed supports it.

What I love most about the site is the community aspect of it all. People “Like” your items that you import, and make comments. Their friends then see what you posted in their update/comment stream, and then they “like” it, which shows it to all THEIR friends, and so on and so on.

Continuing on my FF love, I integrated the Disqus comment system a few weeks ago which not only upgrades the commenting system on the site, but also links it to every other Disqus commenting system out there.

Also making their reappearance in different forms are my Twitter updates, which are 90% of my “status updates” go through, and the Flickr photo gallery applet. I abandoned Flickr a few years ago due to the space/photo restrictions , but in an effort to share some of my better photos I rejoined and uploaded only the select few I was proud of; the rest stay on Picasa.

So in the spirit of the topic, I am cutting this article short and leaving it open-ended for the purpose of conversation with this question: What’s one of the most memorable conversations you’ve had?