I use FriendFeed every day, and I check in every hour or so to see what is going on. In the blogosphere, or at least the part that I listen to, Friday seems to be “post on FriendFeed day”. I have tried to avoid this kind of topic, but there are several things I would… Read More FriendFeed Fixes I Do Not Want To Beg For
In my last post, I decided to give a “state of the blog” because a lot of things have been happening. This morning I was going through my feeds in Google Reader and realized a lot had changed, even in my reading habits. This has all happened in the past 6 months or so as… Read More Lessons Forced on Me by Life and Early Adoption
Image via Wikipedia Every day, you will see someone complaining about the noise on FriendFeed. Typically, the user will talk about how they are going to trim the subscriptions. Contrary to what some people say, this is probably a good idea, not only on FriendFeed but everywhere there are social subscriptions. If you begin to… Read More Size Does Not Matter, It is How You Use It
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… Read More The Google Digg Purchase Would Mean Nothing to You.
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… Read More Now Showing on LouisGray.com, Me!
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… Read More Rankings Suck, So Now What?
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… Read More On the Shoulders of Giants: FriendFeed Applications
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… Read More Is Tweeterboard the first of many?
There are a few interesting discussions going on regarding Twitter, FriendFeed, Seesmic, Disqus and a whole bunch of other social sites. Ironically, the discussions are not about comments, but they are about “destinations”. I find it ironic because some of these sites are meant to be the destination. However, all of the sites have one… Read More Conversations Are The Destination
After writing my Quick Guide to Social Media, I realized there were far too many blogs that I left out. The blogs to read should have been a separate post entirely. I was also questioned in one of the comments about my definition of social media. My definition of social media is one that I… Read More Required Reading in Social Media
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