Mar
20
Michael Arrington wrote a short follow-up to his late-night rant today:
What’s my secret master plan? The secret is I tend to speak plainly and I already said exactly what I wanted to say. I believe bloggers should be careful about raising too much money and thereby killing opportunities to work with others. I believe the […]
Mar
19
The Network Effect
March 19, 2008 | 8 Comments
I couldn’t quite find an angle on Michael Arrington’s More Bloggers Raising Money rant from this morning (making me quite late to the party), until I read Louis Gray’s post on bloggers and networks tonight.
Here is what Arrington said:
What I’d like to see, and even be a part of, is the blogger equivalent to the […]
Mar
19
Slow Day - Twitter color war as a sign of boredom
March 19, 2008 | 3 Comments
I share Corvida’s feeling that today is a very slow day, at least for those of us who dabble in commentary blogging. Sure, I could write about Arrington trying to rally bloggers to challenge CNET (or at least that’s how is post is spun right now), but I don’t care for his recent personal anti-CNET […]
Mar
18
Friendfeed: It’s not about killing Techmeme or Google Reader
March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
Robert Scoble switched his homepage to Friendfeed. That’s a major endorsement for Friendfeed, and while I think his rethoric of Friendfeed as a Google Reader or Techmeme killer is a bit over the top, though his reasons for switching are very interesting:
On top of FriendFeed right now are people I don’t know. No A-listers. I’m […]
Mar
17
When I talked to Bret Taylor from FriendFeed today, he mentioned that they were adding about a feature a week. What he didn’t mention was that Friendfeed was going to add a very good search function as soon as today. I guess this doesn’t come as a surprise, given that FriendFeed was founded by ex-Googlers.
Whereas […]
Mar
17
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, […]
Mar
17
Interview with Bret Taylor from Friendfeed
March 17, 2008 | 5 Comments
I have resurrected the Last Podcast podcast again and my first guest is Bret Taylor from Friendfeed. We talk about this history of Friendfeed, the upcoming API (though Bret was cautious not to give too much away), comments on Friendfeed vs. blog comments, and this weekend’s controversy around Friendfeed.
A few highlight:
An API is coming “within […]
Mar
17
Reddit just started embedding items from ‘custom reddits‘ into its homepage. Before, a user had to explicitly navigate to a separate page to see the items posted to the different custom reddits the user had subscribed to.
From the reddit blog:
We updated the front page today to normalize each link’s hotness to the other links within […]
Mar
15
It’s a Bitchmeme for sure
March 15, 2008 | 5 Comments
When Duncan Riley seemed to miss the point of FriendFeed in his TechCrunch post yesterday, as Louis Gray quite rightly pointed out, I wrote a short post about it and assumed it was over.
Today, though, Duncan Riley wrote what is basically a hit piece against Louis and is dripping with arrogance. The fact that Louis’ […]
Mar
14
PodShow Layoffs?
March 14, 2008 | 4 Comments
The rumor for the afternoon is that Adam Curry’s somewhat infamous podcasting outfit PodShow is about to lay off around a third of its staff.
Apparently, Valleywag got some inside information:
PodShow, the San Francisco-based online-video network best known for launching the career of CNET’s Natali Del Conte, is laying off about 20 employees, or as much […]
Mar
14
How did FriendFeed suddenly become controversial?
March 14, 2008 | 5 Comments
Duncan Riley’s negative review of FriendFeed has been dominating Techmeme for most of the day - however, as Louis Gray points out, Duncan completely misses the point.
Now I have nothing but positive things to say about FF. It’s the first web service in a very long time that has changed the way I use the […]
Mar
13
Digg is planning to expand to Germany
March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
I missed this yesterday, but German business newspaper “Handelsblatt,” in an interview with Kevin Rose (Google translated site here), reports that Digg is planning to expand into the German speaking market within the next 12 to 24 months.
I would say it’s about time - after all, there are already various digg clones on the German […]
Mar
13
Thursday Night Thoughts
March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
At least on my side of the net, the day was mostly driven by FriendFeed really taking off (which lead me to spend a lot of time adding people to my network there). It almost seems as if all the SxSW goes have returned and started looking for something new. I hope a lot of […]
Mar
13
Big Day for FriendFeed
March 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
Even though there was some controversy around Louis Gray’s post on A-listers joining FriendFeed, it seems that his post, together with the resulting coverage on Techmeme and Robert Scoble writing about it on his blog, brought FriendFeed to a tipping point in terms of getting more mainstream exposure.
Earlier this morning, Gabe Rivera twittered that
“It’s apparent […]
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