Most disruptive technology advances in social media

I'll start with the features:

The News Feed.

SMS

The Avatar

The Blog

Ratings/Bookmarks

The rest of this list is all nerdy stuff:

Data Analysis

Join Tables

Write heavy databases.

Commoditization of High Speed Connections and Content Delivery.

Cloud computing

Acceptable data unavailability

Five Things Ping Needs Right Now.

I don't know about you but I am underwhelmed by Ping. It reeks of big software. The following is just a short list of ways Ping completely missed the mark.

1. Friend Importing.

I can't even find friends I know are on Ping using the email address I know they registered with. WTF?! Every other new social network has figured out that my network of friends is on Facebook and Twitter and I have no intention of recreating it from scratch. Let me import it!

2. Real Music.

Not everyone listens to Lada Gaga and 50