Jan
31
Pownce is getting pounded, too
January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments
I have been hard on Twitter in the last few days (it’s down once again as I write this), but I just tried to sign up for an account at Pownce and it isn’t doing much better right now either. Lots of Twitter exiles trying to sign up right now I guess.
And their error page […]
Jan
31
MG Siegler went on the Mashable podcast with Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins last night to explain his ideas behind the Elite Tech News reddit. If you wondered what the hell we are up to, the interview is going to give you some background about what we’re all about.
Since then, two more people joined in the effort: […]
Jan
31
Twitter - what is going on?
January 31, 2008 | 4 Comments
Update: I got an email from Biz Stone. Basically, they are asking for our patience and they are not announcing anything (yet). Biz stressed that they are working hard on making Twitter more reliable, but that it won’t happen overnight.
After a rough night, Twitter has broken up with the host they loved so very, very […]
Jan
31
Bored with Facebook? You are not alone
January 31, 2008 | 3 Comments
Looks like the latest comScore numbers point to a decline in total user number for pretty much every social network, except for Facebook. However, even though Facebook keeps growing (though not rapidly), its user engagement has been down lately. Even though the number of users doubled over the last year, the people who are joining […]
Jan
30
Another Day, Another Twitter Outage
January 30, 2008 | 9 Comments
Just after the guys at Twitter posted a glowing review of their host on the Twitter blog, the Republican Debate took its toll on everybody’s favorite waste of time communication tool and took it offline once again - for the second time today.
According to the Twitter folks, they are working hard on throwing hardware at […]
Jan
30
VoteOften: A Better Digg for Politics
January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
Very few Digg clones manage to impress me these days. They mostly stand out because of their complete lack of innovation.
VoteOften.us, however, which is still in private beta (see last paragraph for how to get an invite), is doing some innovating things, with a focus on politics. With the US presidential election heating up, I […]
Jan
30
Maybe because it’s in Norwegian, it’s unlikely to become a huge hit worldwide, but Norwegian Broadcasting has just started to distribute on of its more successful shows on BitTorrent, without any DRM and in very high quality:
As one of many ways to reach people with our content we have decided to do an experiment and […]
Jan
29
A few days ago, MG Siegler of ParisLemon asked me if I wanted to help post and moderate an “Elite Tech” reddit. This idea was first put forward by Dave Winer about a month or two ago. Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I immediately said yes. I am not sure how ‘l33t’ […]
Jan
29
Dancing Japanese Man Wearing A Horse Mask Cooks Wild Poisonous Mushrooms
January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments
A friend of mine send me this video (via darkdiamond.net).
So odd, I just had to post it…
Jan
29
Next Frontier: Comments
January 29, 2008 | 7 Comments
As I wrote and read about Friendfeed and other services that pull together our output on different web services, I started thinking about how this, in some way, is a one-way street.
What got me thinking about this was how people started commenting on items I posted in Friendfeed instead of on the original blog […]
Jan
29
Brad Stone of the New York Times’ Bits blog features an interesting commentary on Digg by Slashdot’s CmdrTaco, aka. Rob Malda, today.
In it, Malda basically questions how effective a site like Digg (and for that matter, reddit as well) can be run if there is only a small group of vocal users that have made […]
Jan
29
Is there a Google Barcode in Your Future?
January 29, 2008 | 8 Comments
Too lazy to type in a URL? There might be some help on the way. The Silicon Alley Insider reports that Google is offering its newspaper advertisers to ad a 2D barcode their ads that will take a mobile phone users with the right camera and software directly to your mobile site (apparently they are […]
Jan
28
Prologue = Twitter for Groups
January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment
Just as I have happily settled into my Twitter addiction, the guys at Wordpress have come up with a wordpress theme named Prologue that basically clones the general idea of Twitter and turns it into a distributed group messaging system:
Some folks have suggested that using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS you could create a pretty effective […]
Jan
28
Just a few weeks ago, my main way of keeping up with tech news was the Google Reader to browse through individual feeds and TechMeme to see where the discussions were going. Interestingly, in just the last few weeks, I have seen my attention spread out to a few other innovative services: friendfeed and ReadBurner.
Friendfeed […]
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