Have you ever noticed how many messages on Twitter consist of users getting off Twitter to get work done? How many times have you done this yourself? Is Twitter one of your biggest distraction? You’re not alone. Hundreds of Twitter users see these same messages flowing through their Twitter stream at all hours of the […]
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The BlogHer network, a well known and highly respected community for women who blog, was recently promoted on Twitter, by Erin Vest, also known as Queenofspain on Twitter. Vest has been promoting the BlogHers Act global giving initiative, which are five projects that BlogHer has started as part of their commitment to make a difference. […]
Read moreFacebook Is No Threat To Friendfeed
A tweet by Lee Sherman just noted the following: Facebook’s lifestream is a real threat to FriendFeed. It’s easy to add web services, much harder to recreate the social graph everywhere. However, I’d have to disagree with Sherman for three reasons: demographics, different uses, and a closed community. Different Uses Due to the demographics of […]
Read moreFacebook Helping Mass Adoption?
News is spreading quickly about Facebook’s newest enhancement to their Newsfeed. According to the Facebook blog: Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren’t Facebook. You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook. There are a lot of good sites out there, unfortunately, that can sometimes […]
Read moreMeme13 Lends A Helping Hand To Techmeme Newbies
Steven Hodson of WinExtra made an announcement today about Meme13 in a post titled "Tracking the Techmeme newcomers" The Meme13 web service is a tracker that follows the Techmeme leaderboard and according to Steven Hodson’s article: […] mashes together the last 13 sites that made their first appearance on the Techmeme Leaderboard. You can read […]
Read moreFeedalizr A Friendfeed AIR App Before Alert Thingy
As it turns out, Alert Thingy was NOT the first Friendfeed Adobe AIR application. Sorry to break your hearts! Feedalizr, another Friendfeed Adobe AIR app, was in the space first! It was released on April 11th, beating Alert Thingy by 2 days! However, it doesn’t fair much better than Alert Thingy. There aren’t any customization […]
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