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Rick is on a day to day basis working on social media (strategy) cases for several (Fortune 500) clients. He lives and loves social media, helping people and enterprises in using social media in a way that adds value for them. He also gives guest lectures at several universities to make students aware of the impact social media will have on their life in general and on enterprises in particular in the near and not so near future. Is he a geek? Well… yes. A geek with a social life though. Even one with a wife and a young son, who’s first English words were ‘Social media’.

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The Posterous iPhone app, it could have been so great

I use Posterous and I love it, I use also an iPhone (3G) and that one I love too. The iPhone app of Posterous is however a bit of a disappointment, it can only do pictures. It disappointments me because this way the app adds no value at all. I can do more with the email app on the iPhone than I can do with the Posterous app.

Things I would like in the next version so I am more likely to use it:

Not autoposting to everywhere
There is no need for me that all my content is going to everywhere. The current app only supports 'all', I would prefer to select per post I do on Posterous to select to which other channels it should be distributed.

Text
I take pictures every once in a while, however I prefer to use either Flickr or mobypicture for that. Every once in a while I want to share a picture on Posterous and that works fine. However I am more a text guy, I like to put some sentences in a certain sequence and call it a blog. The current app doesn't support that, the horrendous mail app of the iPhone does.

Safari bookmarklet
The tool bookmark (an app for delicious) on the iPhone offers the option for creating a bookmark in Safari that enables you to share a site easily with the app. It would be great for Posterous to do that while browsing some sites on a too little window of your iPhone

Subscriptions
I love to know what the people are posting on Posterous, especially of the blogs I subscribed at. Would be great to be able to take a look in the Posterous app to see what the new updates are in my subscriptions

My Posterous
As a proper web2.0 narcissist I would like to know how things are going at my little at Posterous, views, favorites, but also comments (and to option to reply at those comments) would be really great.

'Like' is unnecessary for Google Reader

Google Reader just had some new functionalities implemented which also contains a 'like'-button:

Have you ever wanted to tell an author or publisher that you appreciate an article they wrote? Or maybe you want to let your friend know that you enjoyed the blog post he shared with you. With a quick click of the mouse (or a swipe of the "L" key -- for the keyboard shortcut pros), you can "like" any item in Reader. All "likes" are public, so anyone reading an item you've "liked" in Reader can see that you're a fan. Checking out shared items for people who have "liked" the same items as you is a great way to discover other people with interests similar to your own.
 
Well let's first go to the description of Google Reader:

Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won't miss a thing.

So Google Reader check my favorite sites for new content. You could say that it checks all the sites I like, and since sites I like will have content that I like, should I than press the like-button every time I read the items? Why would one even want to have things he don't like in Google Reader? It is your decision what you put in Google Reader, off course you only have things you like. Since if you don't like a certain feed, you'll unsubscribe (and the author will notice that his subscriber count is falling, so he will be informed about his poor content). Why 'like'? Probably because other big social networks have this option, not because it really makes sense for Google Reader.

One more thing: as discussed earlier on other places on the Web: 'Like' is completely the wrong expression of content you recommend. For example: if there is a background article about the Holocaust and 10 people like it, it does not mean they like the Holocaust, they recommend it to be read by their network and they want to let others know that the article is worth the time and attention.