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Friday Afternoon Thoughts

February 8, 2008 |

Mashable is talking about Yahoo Live as if it were a lifecasting service. It really isn’t. I was trying it out with MG Siegler last night. Once it actually worked, the user experience was very good. But it’s a video chatroom. It’s a great way for a small group of up to five people to have a quick, informal meeting - it isn’t meant for those guys and gals with the camera on their hats.

Netvibes Ginger upgrade is very good. Good enough so that Netvibes has become my startpage again. Netvibe’s Universes might go big.

I was playing with Heroku for a while today. It’s an online Ruby on Rails development environment. Great for learning Rails without having to muck around with your own servers.

Andrew Shuttleworth must have ADHD… But seriously, nobody should have to use this many different services.

The Yahoo/Microsoft story needs to end soon. It is dominating the discussion and I have nothing to add to it…

Twitter is showing some improvements and their latest couple of blog posts on usage stats have been very interesting. Right now though, Twitter seems to have once again disappeared from the internets…

RSSmeme, which  bashed as just a ReadBurner clone, is actually doing a bunch of interesting and innovating things right now (similar stories, similar linkbloggers etc.). Props to Benjamin Golub for proving my original impression wrong. Still don’t get why Google never got in the game.

Haven’t look at Facebook for weeks now… most of my information now streams through FriendFeed, Twitter and Google Reader (and that one app I can’t talk about).

Feed subscriptions over the last month have doubled. If you are subscribed - thank you! If not - consider it :)


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  1. Benjamin Golub on February 9, 2008 10:43 am

    Thanks for mentioning RSSmeme!

  2. Andrew Shuttleworth on February 10, 2008 2:55 am

    I had to look up the H in ADHD, but no, I’m okay I think.

    You’ll actually notice I’m only using one main site for each content type so I’m pretty focused :-)

    There are pros and cons to using many different sites. The cons are obvious, but as for the pros …. can you manage if one site (say Facebook?) had all the functionality of all the other sites. It would be a monster to deal with. Also you can build up a focused network of friends interested in a specific type of content by just using one site.

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