kibbe rocks the city

So, I'm a dweeb. I stayed up late after tandomly jumping on Robert Scoble's livecast of the Google Campfire to find out the scoop on FriendConnect and get a chance to play with it a bit.

 I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with how easy it is to use so far. I mean, I really didn't have to do much because I was already logged into Google, I just had to select what I wanted my nickname to be, etc. and then fire away accordingly.

Of course, you know me, the internet. I only jumped on board because I wanted to check it out and see what this could mean for my precious little rock bands that I hold so near and dear to my heart, so I made sure to check out the feature that they integrated on Ingrid Michaelson's website (btw, I don't like her). Low and behold! It made me feel like I was not only a part of ol' Ingrid's site, but I really feel like people are going to have a stronger sense of community when they visit a bands website. Since the dawn of MySpace, I have done nothing but scratched my head as to how one could go about setting the bands offical website apart from their MySpace profile. By golly, if this isn't it, I don't know what is!! Your fans don't have to work any harder than clicking OK to what info they want shared on the site. They can comment and do whatever interactions Google might offer to the masses, all the while this information can be sent back to Facebook or whatever social networking profile that they're getting your information from so that you're still a part of that community as well.

COMMUNITY BUILDING IS ESSENTIAL TO MAKING AN ARTIST HAVE A CAREER THESE DAYS!!! Remember that whole "it takes a village" thing? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO BUILD A VILLAGE OF YOUR VERY OWN, ARTISTS!!! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Once I get my hands on one of those beta invites I can show you HOW EASY THIS IS TO DO! And if you don't think it's easy to do than you can just ask me and I will be more than happy to show you or instruct your web designer what to do with all these fun codes and things.

I really hope everyone chooses to jump on board and be a part of this. Of course, I can't help but think about what someone said in the chatroom during Scoble's cast about how this is Google's way of luring all the social networks in before they gobble them up.  I hope that's not the case. I hope competition continues to thrive and therefore people become more creative and we have more exciting things come down the pike, but who knows what could happen these days, seriously.

I'm really anxious to see what kind of status feeds that Google will send to my Facebook profile (as I made sure to opt into that so I could see how it interacts with your social networking profile for times when you're just posting comments on other people's walls, etc). I haven't seen anything yet...and believe me, I have been frantically checking my Mini-Feed to see if it says anything awesome in there. Guess I just have to be patient. Hmph.

Feel free to comment/argue with me on this. I'm curious to see what everyone else has to say so far.

Update on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 02:21AM by [kibbe]

My friend Morgan (@morganplex) just brought up a good question : will site owners be able to own data? i.e. email signups and stuff for the users using their sites?

Not sure about that yet. Gonna have to investigate more, but that will have to wait until tomorrow once I've rested a bit.