Mar

26

Aggregation is not lifestreaming

March 26, 2008 | 5 Comments

<rant>
Here is something that has been bothering me for a while - the word ‘lifestreaming’ - especially in relation to services like FriendFeed, Socialthing and others aggregators.
Everybody seems to be hellbend on calling every new social media aggregator a “lifestreaming service”. But have you looked at the ‘everyone’ feed on FriendFeed? Nothing on there comes […]

Mar

25

First FriendFeed App: FriendFeedStats

March 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

Benjamin Golub of RSSMeme got an early look at the FriendFeed API that was just released today and released what must be the first web app making use of the FriendFeed API: friendfeedstats.com
The app is still in its infancy, but already gives us a quick taste for how the FriendFeed API can be used. FriendFeedStats […]

Mar

25

Friendfeed Launches API

March 25, 2008 | 4 Comments

FriendFeed just announced the launch of the FriendFeed API:
We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It’s designed to make it possible for anyone improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications. You can develop a FriendFeed interface for a mobile […]

Mar

24

Friendfeed and Twitter: Take Two

March 24, 2008 |

FriendFeed’s new ability to allow users to post comments on tweets back into Twitter sure took the blogosphere by storm.
Steven Hodson says that this, together with adding the ability to import Disqus comments, represents a major change in the conversation landscape. Mathew Ingram thinks it is an elegant solution to one of the more vexing […]

Mar

24

Major FriendFeed News: You can now post comments back into Twitter

March 24, 2008 |

Starting now, you can post your comments on Twitter posts in FriendFeed back into FriendFeed.

This is something users have been asking for for as long as FriendFeed has been around and once again demonstrates FriendFeed’s willingness and ability to work with users on giving them what they want.
Of course, I can’t help but wonder if […]

Mar

24

South Park Goes Legal

March 24, 2008 |

Sometime around 8 years ago when I was living in Europe, I started downloading episodes of a new animated show called South Park on a 56k modem. It took hours to get those Real Player files downloaded.
Over the years, South Park must have become one of the most downloaded shows on the net, mp3 audio […]

Mar

23

Dumb Idea: Cinema Advergames

March 23, 2008 | 3 Comments

According to a press release by National CineMedia, ‘advergames’ might be coming to a cinema near you soon:
Brand Experience Lab’s AudienceGame is a kind of “advergame” which is played by theatre audiences moving together to act as a “human joystick” to control the gaming elements on the big screen. Brand Experience Lab has designed […]

Mar

22

Summing up: Comment fragmentation is a short-term issue

March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments

There has been a lot of discussion about comments getting detached from their original posts and heading onto Friendfeed and other aggregators (like RSS readers with comments like Assetbar or shyftr).
I wrote a bit about this in the last week, but I just want to sum up my thoughts a bit more concisely:
1) At least […]

Mar

21

This Weekend’s Bitchmeme: Safari

March 21, 2008 | 3 Comments

<rant>
I’m no Apple fanboi, but the whole bruhaha over Apple pushing Safari onto unwitting Windows users is just your typical Friday afternoon bitchmeme.
Lets face it - Apple gives you a chance to opt out of installing Safari - it isn’t silently installing it without asking for your consent.
The people who are unwittingly installing this […]

Mar

21

Why Oprah will save podcasting

March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

For a long time now, I have been saying that podcasting is stuck in a holding pattern, where it is stuck in a state perpetual promise, but without a breakthrough hit.
Marshall Kirkpatrick on ReadWriteWeb today reports about a possible watershed moment for podcasting: Oprah.
Outside of our tech echo chamber, Oprah has climed the iTunes podcasting […]

Mar

21

Can’t find Google? You are not alone

March 21, 2008 |

Here is an interesting piece of data via Jakob Nielson:
If you thought it’s easy to get to Google, think again. In our current round of usability research, only 76% of users who expressed a desire to run a Google search were successful. In other words, 1/4 of users who wanted to use Google couldn’t do […]

Mar

21

Friday Afternoon Thoughts

March 21, 2008 |

So Apple now forces Safari on you through its update process. This breaks some cardinal rules for me. Most importantly, the fact that I don’t want anybody to push anything onto my machine except for critical updates. Period. Besides that, Safari is a pretty boring browser anyway. At least it makes for a bit of […]

Mar

21

Information overload and the echo chamber

March 21, 2008 | 3 Comments

The more I get sucked into the vortex that is Friendfeed, Techmeme, digg, reddit, etc. the more I feel the need to break out of the echo chamber and try to find new content.
Google Reader tells me I’m subscribed to 237 feeds (about 20 or so of those are linkblogs), and that I have read […]

Mar

20

Martha Steward - newest member of the Techmeme family

March 20, 2008 |

Apparently Martha Steward (yes - the Martha Steward) likes her MacBook Air - a lot. Enough so, to make it to Techmeme.
Given that the story was linked to by two prominent Mac blogs, it makes sense that it shows up on Techmeme.
So let us welcome Martha to the Techmeme family - maybe we can all […]

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