Apr
17
I didn’t quite see this coming, but in its next version, Twhirl, which was just acquired by Seesmic, is going to add support for FriendFeed. The announcement by Loic Le Meur is in the video here:
Given that Twhirl has a larger install base than Alert Thingy, this is going to not only push FriendFeed at […]
Apr
17
If Alexa is so bad, why don’t we just share our stats? Or do they just not matter anymore?
April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments
Alexa today announced that it was changing the way it compiles its statistics. Before, Alexa would gather its data from a toolbar that some users had installed in their browser - probably the most inaccurate way of gathering this kind of statistics, given that only a very self-selected number of users would install the Alexa […]
Apr
16
Slow News Day Thoughts: the death of search, the decline of digg, and blogger credibility
April 16, 2008 | 6 Comments
Today was an excruciatingly slow news day in the tech world.
There was the bad Microsoft video that was just an internal joke (or was it?); a company that pretended to make Mac clones but seems to be a complete fraud (thank God somebody still does some investigative journalism); Alexa is tweaking its algorithms; and somebody […]
Apr
15
Meme 13 - it’s a scraper blog
April 15, 2008 | 5 Comments
As I wrote in my ‘thoughts’ post this afternoon (via Steven Hodson’s post about it), I just don’t get the purpose of Meme13 - a site that is meant to track the posts of the last 13 new blogs that appeared on the Techmeme Leaderboard.
As Tony Hung points out, it’s not just pretty useless, it’s […]
Apr
15
Facebook launched some new, ‘lifestreamy’ stuff: I really don’t care. Actually, I just deleted my facebook account. It is still the internet with training wheels - and I’m still not interested in plying around with Zombies. My social networks are Twitter and FriendFeed.
Meme13 launches: A way of reading the posts from the last 13 sites […]
Apr
15
Confirmed: There are no ads on Twitter
April 15, 2008 | 8 Comments
This is an update on the earlier story I did on ads on Twitter. I emailed the guys at Twitter about this and I just received an email from Biz Stone confirming my suspicion that the original Duncan Riley story was based on nothing:
No, we’re not putting ads on Twitter.com. From what I gather, someone […]
Apr
15
Updates: Adventures in Great Reporting: Twitter Now has Ads - or does it?
April 15, 2008 | 7 Comments
Update: Just got this email from Biz Stone:
Hi Frederic,
No, we’re not putting ads on Twitter.com. From what I gather, someone mistook a background image for advertising.Thanks,Biz Stone, Co-founderTwitter, Inc.
The TechCrunch story, of course, stands uncorrected - so do all the me-too posts.
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Duncan Riley reports on TechCrunch that somebody might have seen ads on Twitter today:
Twitter […]
Apr
15
Why I’m Okay With My Content Being a Commodity
April 15, 2008 | 3 Comments
I’ve been mulling of Sarah Perez’s post on the devaluation and commodification of ‘content’ today, including the great discussion in the comments.
The following paragraph from her post is a good segue into the discussion that has been raging in the tech blogosphere over the last few days: how much is our writing worth? how can […]
Apr
14
Once again, the l33t reddit crew got together this weekend to record our weekly podcast based on the highest ranked stories on the Elite Tech News Reddit.
This week’s lineup: Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins as moderator, Jason from Webomatica, Steven Hodson of WinExtra , Art Lindsey from artlindsey.com and myself.
We also finally managed to get Louis […]
Apr
14
Goodbye to Opacity: Alert Thingy goes V 1.1
April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments
After being buried under a barrage of negative criticism when it was released just yesterday, Alert Thingy today released version 1.1 of its FriendFeed desktop application.
Some changes that make the app already a bit better:
+ You can turn off opacity+ only shows the last three comments on a given item and then lets you choose […]
Apr
13
After the disappointment that was Sobees bTittleTattle FriendFeed desktop app, Clive Howard and Jeremy Baines today released their long awaited Alert Thingy for Friendfeed.
AlertThingy is an Adobe Air application with a look somewhat similar to that of Twitter Air applications such as Snitter or Twhirl.
I will write a longer review tonight, but just a few […]
Apr
11
Go ahead - ’steal’ my content
April 11, 2008 | 15 Comments
I’m not in control of my content and the discussion around it - and I’m just fine with it.
It seems Louis Gray has kicked off a bit of a discussion about feeds and business created around those feeds today. In many ways, this is really an extension of the ‘comment fragmentation discussion. A lot of […]
Apr
10
Sobees bTittleTattle: The First FriendFeed Desktop App (but I can’t recommend it)
April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments
Note: I grappled with myself whether I should write this review or not - to be blunt - I’m less than impressed with bTittleTattle. However, as you read this review, keep in mind that this is a work in progress and the developer, Francois Bochatey has already let us know that he is planning on […]
Apr
10
Lesson for Flickr: don’t mess with your paying users
April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
I thought that Flickr adding video wasn’t a great idea - there is a 90 second maximum and you need a pro account ($25 a year) to even upload videos.
Flickr’s users, however are the ones that really didn’t like this new service, especially that Flickr put their money towards developing a video service. Wired […]
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