Jun
11
Great post by Steve Spalding about specialization and the Internet today:
The old adage goes that a Jack of all trades is a master of none. This is mostly true, but it’s equally important to note that if you plan on being a Jack of one trade, you better know for a fact that your trade […]
Jun
10
Maybe the New York Times is still stuck a little bit behind the times, but why exactly is it news that women are now starting to be more interested in smartphones?
Does the New York Times assume that women are not interested in having a decent browsing experience on their phones? Keeping in touch with friends […]
Jun
9
I wrote a bit about my expectations for the Apple keynote yesterday (and I wasn’t too far off in my predictions).
At the same time, though, I was also really interested how both Twitter and FriendFeed would hold up to what must have been a massive demand of geeks scouring for information during those two hours […]
Jun
8
I’m noticing that a number of people are setting up rooms on FriendFeed for tomorrow’s WWDC keynote where, at 10amPST tomorrow, unless all predictions are wrong, we are going to see the announcement of a new iPhone with 3G support, GPS, video, and/or a smoothie maker, depending on who you ask.
VentureBeat – their people […]
Jun
7
I was a little bit down on Woopra when they made me think I had made it into their beta program but in the end was confronted with a request for an invite code I (and many others) never received.
Now, however, I finally got my invitation and I have to admit that, as far as […]
Jun
6
Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote a great post about the signal vs. noise discussion today (see also Hutch Carpenter’s article from yesterday about this). I recommend you read the whole article, because it puts a lot of the common arguments against noise in perspective. But if you are in a hurry – here are Marshall’s conclusions:
Quiet time, […]
Jun
6
Today, widget platform Zembly (which is funded by Sun Microsystems) is launching into the already crowded market for widget creating and hosting applications.
Here is the announcement from their blog:
zembly lets you collaboratively create and host social applications of all shapes and sizes, including Facebook apps, meebo apps, OpenSocial apps, iPhone apps, Google Gadgets, embeddable widgets, […]
Jun
6
Today must be one of those days on the net (and it’s not even Friday the 13th yet – that’s next Friday!).
Amazon is still recovering from a large, international outage, Twitter is down and out (like that’s something new – but even istwitterdown.com is down right now, too), Disqus suffered some outages last night, […]
Jun
4
Twitter is Learning to Talk to Us
I have been showing Twitter the cold shoulder for a few days, but I will be the first to admit that I do miss the Twitter experience and that neither Jaiku, Pownce or the currently hyped Plurk can really make up in features for the strength of the community […]
Jun
3
I’m reading a bunch of articles lately that feature the catchy term “Blogging 2.0” (though Time Magazine wrote about Blogging 2.0 in 2005 already).
Part of the argument for a Blogging 2.0 cycle is that comments are shifting away from blogs to FriendFeed or at least hosted by 3rd-party companies like Disqus, and that Twitter is […]
Jun
2
Today, bBoth Colin Walker and Sarah in Tampa are both talking about taking some time off from the always-on social media life.
Colin rightly says that
“the conversation will go on without you regardless of who you are. People will still have ideas and discussion will still develop around those ideas.”
And Sarah adds to that:
The conversation […]
Jun
2
New bookmarking services don’t usually get me very excited, but Mento, developed by Gregor Hochmuth, is doing a bunch of very interesting things. Most importantly, besides being a very well-thought out bookmarking service in itself, it acts as a conduit for pushing your bookmarks out to other services, including FriendFeed (they look like just links […]
Jun
2
Microsoft’s just released a new version of its Live Writer blogging client. Live Writer is my default blogging client already, and the new version, with subtly but very useful new additions is going to become the new default for me.
The Live Side blog features a complete run-down of the changes in the new version. Here […]
May
31
[Disclaimer: As you read this, please keep in mind that this is a review of a product in its very early stages - my initial assessment here is based on what the service does at this point - this can (and will hopefully) change dramatically as development continues]
I got an early invite for FriendBinder, […]
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