Twhirl Integrates Friendfeed: The Chaos Begins
Twhirl has incorporated Friendfeed into their client! Twhirl’s latest upgrade here. Just this morning, I wrote an article suggesting that the Friendfeed AIR app Alert Thingy should stay in its own lane and NOT try to directly compete with Twhirl by adding a host of features that cater to users of Twitter. I noted […]
Read moreAlert Thingy Should Stay In Its Own Lane
Sarah Perez recently wrote a solid article reviewing the updates of Alert Thingy, an AIR app for Friendfeed. What made the article so interesting for me were her suggestions of what Alert Thingy should integrate in their future releases. The features she requested are being echoed loudly throughout the Friendfeed community, especially amongst those […]
Read moreReduce Twitter’s Level Of Distraction While You Work
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 […]
Read moreHarnessing The Power Of Twitter
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 […]
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