Social Media, Tech Opinion

FriendFeed: My Content Portal & Aggregator

I love social media. Within said field, Twitter would be my tool of choice for a lot of things. The conversations are great. The people are great. The community is excellent. The content is awesomesauce. However, there’s one service that has Twitter beat hands down when it comes to content & to some degree even […]

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Tech Opinion

Obama’s Inauguration & Future Of Technology

Today the entire world had the opportunity to witness Obama’s Inauguration. To be honest, I missed the speech due to lack of sleep, but I caught everything that came right after the speech courtesy of CNN HD on DirectTV.        However, before tuning into CNN I tried Ustream.TV’s iPhone app that was released last night […]

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Social Media, Tech Opinion

Credibility: A Writer Or Reader Problem?

After reading this thoughtful post by “Broke Grad” entitled Why I Blog Anonymously, he left me to ponder a statement that he’d made about credibility as it pertains to blogging. He states, The truth is that credibility lies in the hands of the readers, not the writers. I found this statement to be wrong on […]

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Tech Opinion

Quality Information & Knowing Just Enough

It seems there are a gazillion startups that aggregate data for us. We seem to have a never ending hunger for data and information. Where we once depended on storytellers, bards, poets, painters, writers, journalists, we now want to know everything written by anyone. Official information providers long thought they could keep a monopoly on […]

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Tech Opinion

Mobile TV Doesn’t Have A Future On My Phone

Yesterday Sarah Perez wrote an interesting article on the future of Mobile TV. With only 5% of cellphone owners in the U.S. subscribing to Mobile TV services and an even slimmer percentage doing the same outside of the US, I’d say Mobile TV is dead.   Disappointing Factors: Content & Quality According to Nielsen, mobile […]

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