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The Google Digg Purchase Would Mean Nothing to You.

Published in July 22nd, 2008

If you read this blog regularly, it probably means you are involved in social media and most likely an early adopter. If not, then you are probably just a hardcore geek looking for a geek fix. Given that this is my audience, I am going to tell you why the possible/probable acquisition of Digg by [...]

Now Showing on LouisGray.com, Me!

Published in July 19th, 2008

Posted by robdiana in Social Media

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I have been really busy lately, but it is a good busy. I was contacted earlier this week by Louis Gray to write a guest post on his blog. WOW. For those of you who read this blog and do not know who he is, Louis Gray is one of the hottest “non A-List’ blogs [...]

Rankings Suck, So Now What?

Published in July 17th, 2008

Posted by robdiana in Internet, Social Media

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In my last post I asked Do We Need Rankings For Everything? The rant was based on the new API for PostRank from AideRss, the launching of Frienderati.Alltop and the ensuing discussion. Yep, it was one of those good, old-fashioned, “I am a cranky old man” rants. Thankfully, Melanie Baker from AideRss beat me with [...]

On the Shoulders of Giants: FriendFeed Applications

Published in July 9th, 2008

Posted by robdiana in Social Media

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There is a lot of information passing through FriendFeed. The web interface is useful up to a point, but sometimes people feel they are missing interesting items, or they just do not like the interface. There are a lot of applications trying to make things easier as well as a wealth of Greasemonkey scripts. This [...]

Is Tweeterboard the first of many?

Published in July 3rd, 2008

Posted by robdiana in Programming, Social Media

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By now you may have heard that Tweeterboard has shut down their service. The reasoning from Gene Smith was:
I realized that I no longer have the time, energy, interest or technical abilities to maintain it. So I’m shutting it down.
As the developer of YackTrack, I understand the difficulties of developing on top of Web [...]

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