February 24, 2010 | Interesting Web Sites

Cadmus Helps You Avoid Social Media Overload

I found out about a new social media organization service called Cadmus the other day.

If you’re active in social networking like Twitter, you probably get a lot of updates in your incoming streams.

Cadmus

organizes these streams and prevents you from having to wade through duplicates.
identifies trends among your friends’ Twitter conversations
groups @replies and groups those too. You can open or close an entire conversation instead of looking through all past updates to find the original post to which they are replying.

Signing up for Cadmus

On the Cadmus website (thecadmus.com) , click on the signup link:

You’re taken to Twitter.com, where you’re asked to authorize Cadmus accessing your Twitter account. Note: Cadmus doesn’t take your password. Rather, Twitter gives an authorization token to third-party websites to allow them to update your account. Click on Allow:

After signing up, you’re taken back to the Cadmus homepage. Like Twitter, if you’re not signed in, the homepage gives you information on Cadmus. Once you’re signed in, the homepage shows your account’s updates. Initially there are none, because Cadmus hasn’t had a chance to analyze your tweets:

After a few minutes, Cadmus shows your tweets:

Cadmus identifies major topics within your tweetstream. Click on a topic to view related tweets. Cadmus calls this “personal trending topics“:

You can also view trending coversations within the last 6 and 12 hours, and one, three, and seven days:

Cadmus also organizes your FriendFeed and RSS streams. Click on “Add a Service” and choose what you want to add:

Cadmus API

In addition to the website, you can add access Cadmus’s organized streams through the Cadmus API (aplication programming interface). That means you can view or show Cadmus info in a desktop or phone application or on your website.

Check out Cadmus here: http://thecadmus.com/