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Monday Afternoon Thoughts

March 17, 2008 |

Some stories I found interesting but didn’t have time to write a full post about (yet):

Friendfeed adds search. Some may say it’s about time, but it’s nice to see a company listen to users and give them what they have been asking for. The search is very much inspired by the search function in GMail, with a very similar query language (for example: service:twitter friendfeed). With the API coming in the next few weeks, things look quite rosy for Friendfeed.

Vista SP1 might be rolled out to consumers tomorrow. I won’t let it onto my machine until others have tested it thoroughly. I actually like Vista, but I still don’t trust Microsoft not to mess up my highly stable and fast system.

Steven Hodson reminds us that Twitter and social media aggregators are nothing new:

While they might be the popularization or mainstreaming of communication on the web they really are nothing more than the re-application of old ideas with a fresh coat of paint.

I do believe at some point that we will have a true new revolutionary social media but now is not that time. It just the time when we are figuring out how to make money off of conversations that have been going on for along time.

Internet Addiction is a mental disorder. Better get offline now before they put you into a straightjacket.

Reddit making the smaller sub-reddits more visible is a big deal. Finally all of us who edit the sub-reddits can assume that people are seeing the stories we submit, which also given them a better chance of getting voted on.

Podshow is indeed laying off people, but mostly because version 3 of their software is ready and they don’t need the people anymore. Sounds weird to me - doesn’t the completion of v3 mean that these people should now start working on the next version?


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