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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
It’s Sunday afternoon and I thought it wasn’t going to happen, but Gabe Rivera himself has announced that we do have an official bitchmeme for the weekend.
So what happened?
Basically, Mark Evans wrote a post about why it is so difficult to write original blog posts and why there are so many me-too blog posts.
He [...]
