Yesterday, I was trying to analyse my hours (!) spent on social networks in a day. And its more than 7 hours a day. Seven! I almost died when I saw this number. But hey, wait, I don’t waste my time on these networks. I don’t poke, ping, peek or gossip or chit-chat. I don’t take social network for granted like most of you (none offences meant, hope none taken). I ask and ask few more. I am one of those annoying kinds who believe there is no one right answer for everything. I read and ask and answer and analyse, also like most of you.
Mechanical Zoo were the smarter ones and created Aardvark. This ask-your-friend-in-your-network technology is truly amazing. Its brilliant. For those who are new to this product, FYI, its a social serach engine that allows the users to ask or/and answer anything in real time in your network of friends (which includes Google contacts and Facebook contacts). Interesting thing is Aardvark finds that person on your behalf based on some intelligent algorithm and gets you one of your people to answer. Since Google bought it ($50 million), Aardvark is installed as one of your friends on your Google-chat list and communicate through key words like ‘pass’, ‘ask’, ‘more’ et cetera.
Here is a screen shot of my Aardvark page for you all to look.
Screenshot of Aardvark
It’s navigation is easy and simple. One can share their Aardvark’s thread and post it on Twitter or Facebook. Not only that, through my Google Inbox I can easily manage Aardvark account without logging into Aardvark page. So, whenever Aardvark sees me online, it asks me or updates me about various queries to which I can answer through Google-chat itself. Hence, no multiple window hassle.
Now coming back to those 7 hours, I spend most of my online time on social networks; of which, as anticipated, Twitter and Facebook were on the top. I love Facebook. I love it! But I love Twitter more. I am not one of those fanatic T-users but yeah, I still find it more useful. I am a sucker for news. For me twitter is more like a news aggregator. A place where I get all my news packed together on one page (from individual and trusted sources).
But there are lot of websites that I don’t follow even though I want to for a simple reason that my twitter page looks cluttered with unasked-for news feed. For example, New York Times. I still have to go to their website to read news on Business and Technology and Media. I don’t want to know their Weather news or Science & space news. It’s great and useful, just not to me. All I am trying to say is that Twitter should work on some technology that can customise news feed coming from one source based on individual necessity.
I wish my prophecy comes true.
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