We saw an interesting phenomenon on ReadWriteWeb today. My colleague Mike Melanson wrote a post about Facebook Connect, which now shows up as the #1 search results on Google News and also as a new result on Google’s main search engine.
That – by itself – wouldn’t be something out of the ordinary, but here is what happened: [...]
The Windows vs. Mac discussion never stops to amaze me. That’s probably because I’m pretty agnostic when it comes to my operating systems. I’ve used Windows 3.1 to 7, Ubuntu was the main OS on my laptop for the last three years, I wrote some of my best stuff on an LC 630 Macintosh back [...]
<rant> Allen Stern wrote a nice, concise rant about Friendfeed today, where he argues that FF still has to fix a lot of usability issues before it can ever go mainstream. I mostly agree with Allen, but I think that FF’s real issue goes far deeper than just usability.
Sadly, being a big fan of Friendfeed in [...]
Fred Wilson started a discussion about blog comments today. Here is the final paragraph of his post which pretty much sums up his thoughts:
What’s the difference between a great comment and a great blog post? Nothing. What’s the difference between a great commenter and a great blogger? Nothing. At least in theory. It’s time for [...]
Bret Taylor from FriendFeed announced a new FF feature tonight: personalized recommendations.
That’s why I’m happy to announce we just launched a feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through your entire feed. Underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage, you now have links to see the [...]
At the beginning of the year, it looked like Shared Items from Google Reader or other RSS readers were going to become a major force. Products like Linkriver, ReadBurner, RSSMeme and others were innovating quickly. So where are we now?
In his latest column, Steve Gillmor says the following:
Just as Google Reader reached a crescendo [...]
I’m looking at re-designing the layout for the blog, but every time I come up with something half-way nice, I just realize that I still like the current layout better. Maybe I’m too conservative.
I’m also working on a slightly different blog, but I’m having DNS issues with getting the domain transferred and these things tend [...]
Steven Hodson has some interesting thoughts on the discussion around who own blog comments:
Well let’s set one thing straight right off the bat – comments are not frikken creative content for crying out loud. It doesn’t matter whether you make them on a blog or at the corner coffee shop. Once you open your mouth [...]
Early on in this week’s Elite Tech News Podcast, Robert Scoble mentioned how he wants to be able to be able to easily share specific items to his rooms through filters.
As I said on the show, I think this is a huge oportunity for 3rd party developers to do something interesting with FriendFeed. As I [...]
Now that I’m caught up on the events of the last week, it becomes pretty clear that FriendFeed is still the topic du jour. Today, TechCrunch announces (based on Compete data), that FriendFeed still has a lot of killing to do:
FriendFeed certainly has a lot of potential, but it still has a lot of killing [...]
Taking some time off is always a good way to reassess the current state of things. Being half-way through my almost two week long blog hiatus (thanks to some conference travel and vacation), I have started thinking about what to do next once I come back (besides switching hosts).
The blog has grown beyond any of [...]
Early Adopters:
Last night’s post on the growing rift between early adopters and mainstream users lingered through the night, but picked up quite some steam in the morning with a great discussion in the comments here, on FriendFeed and on Robert Scoble’s blog post about Early Adopter Angst (also in response to Alexander van Elsas’ post [...]
Clearly it is Friday and we all know what that means: it’s time for a good bitchmeme and who better to bring it to us than Louis Gray (who seems to be conspicuously often involved in these) himself. Lately the Friday bitchmemes have been drowned out by some real news, which is really a shame, [...]
I was just reading Alexander van Elsas’ piece on FriendFeed and intention. As usual Alexander does a great job digging deep into one issue. This time, it’s what he sees as a major flaw in FriendFeed – the lack of intention in sharing the items that appear in the FriendFeed stream.
Here is why he thinks [...]
