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It seems that these days people are actively packing up their facebook account over to google+. Different reasons aside, google+ is making a huge splash in the social scene.

One thing that I have noticed is from my personal experience, of how I deal with my online social interaction.

I have always used my on social verbs based on the actual social interaction I perform with these people.. on twitter and google.

Connect
Converse
Learn
Read
Inspire

and other sub circles/groups for specific topics such as #ux and location specific. To me, this makes much more sense, especially that I use these social tools to share and to receive information.

I have always found the default social verbs to be awkward…

Follow

when someone follows you on twitter, you don’t necessary have to follow back. The word “follow” does not commit to such deep relationships. What if the social verb on …

Social Metadata and the Relevance Revolution

Consider this:
* Google now uses over 100 pieces of information gleaned from your online behavior to serve you the most personally relevant ads.
* Applications like del.icio.us and Flickr enable a kind of massively multiplayer information architecture – collaborative structuring of data that supports personal, local and global views of the information space.
* And social networking sites promise to increase the relevance of everything from your personal network (Linkedin) to your RSS feeds (Rojo)

Social metadata – information about who we are, who we know, who we trust and what we do – is the fulcrum for new applications that leverage an understanding of your behavior to bring you meaningful content, products and services. It’s the foundation of the collective intelligence systems we see at work in Amazon, Google and eBay.

When Tim O’Reilly says collective intelligence will …