A couple of developments over the last week in Online Social Media are worth giving special mention to. The first is KickApps.com which I call Social Media tools on Demand and I really got excited with the kinds of Social Media that Kickapps is enabling (see an example from the site TrekkiesOnline.com)

I did a pretty long post on how you’d use a Web 2.0 platform to build a social network around sites like www.mascordlivingspaces.com that, today, have no real way to do it. I’m not saying it solves the problem of creative thinking - but it makes it easier to go and put the social network in action if you have the idea.

In fact, it’s not going to far out to say that Smartmobs.com, itself, would benefit from a Social Network using www.kickapps.com and I’d be happy to help with this if Howard is interested (more brainstorming at this point).

The Second Development that I think is significant this week is YouTube’s social experiment with AudioSwap and Streams, as covered in Cybernet.

AudioSwap (pictured above) is an awesome idea because we have all sat down and watched videos that have no sound, and they are indeed boring! AudioSwap allows you to add music from artists that YouTube has already licensed to add in your own videos. I just flipped through the list available and noticed that they have some songs by Evanescence, Aretha Franklin, Drowning Pool and Finger Eleven. Oh yeah, and they have a song that I feel a little ashamed of knowing‚Ķ’TipToe Thru the Tulips with Me’ by Tiny Tim.

Streams is also interesting - haven’t tried it myself yet (too busy looking at all the user generated videos of Kirk, Spock, Que and Star Wars on www.Trekkiesonline.com)

Links: Cybernetnews, Webmetricsguru