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I'm Getting So Tired Of The Non-Instant Web
Tap... Tap... Is this thing on? (Reloads)At the end of 2008, my #1 prediction for 2009 in the world of tech was that the real-time Web was going to grow in awareness and importance - and that a growing number of early adopters and fast followers were going to turn to sites that delivered instant upd …
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10 People to Follow On FriendFeed for the Month of January
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)It's the start of a new year, and what better way to kick it off with it than a tradition I started back in July of 2008?This is the type of post that really makes me happy. It's my way of paying it forward to a community that already has g …
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Disqus2FF Mashes Up Fractured Conversations
Who really owned the comments... the original poster or the aggregation site that "stole them away" was one of the biggest small-time blog wars on the Web in 2008. Whether bloggers were complaining about seeing comments and conversation moved from their blog and instead taking place on FriendFeed, S …
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Walls, Blogs, and Power: Building Fortress Twitter
By Eric Berlin of Online Media Cultist (FriendFeed/Twitter)The race to build the perfect Twitter add-on service is in full bore. There are so many new services and applications being delivered these days that new sites are cropping up exist solely to aggregate and organize all the cool stuff that's …
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DRM = Doesn't Really Matter
If one of the biggest items to be delivered at tomorrow's MacWorld Expo is the elimination of DRM from songs on the iTunes store, as is rumored, then we are on the brink of the biggest snoozefests in technology event history. Forget that Mr. Steve Jobs potentially is suffering hot flashes, and is in …
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40 Key Elements to Getting Started In Social Media
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Getting started with social media, whether for personal or professional use, requires learning the basic fundamentals. Social media is more than just creating a blog or Twitter account. The tools are great and give us big advantages, but th …
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Hey Twitter, It's Not Just a Worm, It's an App
By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Twitter/FriendFeed)There's no doubt that the worm making its rounds on Twitter is a nuisance and a huge problem for all. The fact of the matter is, somebody has collected your usernames and passwords, and many of your accounts are now Zombies, spamming each friend on …
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Geek Leading Fantasy Football League During Playoff Push
At the end of August, I told you how I manage to take what should be an enjoyable, brainless, activity like fantasy football, and still 'nerd it up', reverting to laptops, Excel spreadsheets and Web-based databases. (See: The Even Geekier Approach to Fantasy Football) Now more than four full months …
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Twitter's OAuth Target Slipping Amid Increased Security Pressures
Over the weekend, more than one exploit, sent by way of Twitter's Direct Message feature, has made it around the Web. As Twitter's growth has continued, the microblogging service looks to be a new domain for scammers and spammers, previously contained to traditional e-mail. And as the shenanigans ga …
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Are We Too Connected to Social Media?
By Ken Stewart of ChangeForge (Twitter/FriendFeed)Do you ever feel like you are too wired? Do you find yourself using a password manager to keep up with passwords to the dozens of social media and web sites to which you have subscribed? Dan Keldsen posted a very interesting piece that really got me …
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Armchair Quarterbacking and Why I Talk to Companies Using the Blog
Whether it's due to the fact it's another 'slow news' weekend, or due to the fact I was more bare in my recommendations for how FriendFeed, a service I am constantly using and like a lot, could improve in yesterday's post than I usually am, there was quite a bit of feedback from around the Web, whic …
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Blog Search May Suck, But What Do We Really Want?
By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)In the past few weeks, the 'blog search engines are bad' complaint has resurfaced. This seems to reappear every few months, and for good reason. Blog search is not really changing. I complained a few months ago that blog search was broken and a month …
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What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users
That I like FriendFeed and so does Robert Scoble and so do a few thousand other Web-addicted Silicon Valley-centric people doesn't matter very much. That thousands more have signed up to the service and imported their data doesn't matter very much either. That the service has a ton of bells and whis …
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Twitter Venn Shows How Frequently Words are Tweeted and Related
Remember those old Venn Diagrams from high school or junior high? Jeff Clark of Neoformix continues to roll out interesting tools to graphically display information we are brushing up against every day online. One of his latest creations is a fun tool called "Twitter Venn", which mines Twitter for t …
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iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile Oh My!
By Ken Stewart of ChangeForge (Twitter/FriendFeed)No one cares about the platform, they care about the experience right?In days gone by, there was (and probably still is) a lot of talk about the platform itself. However, gone are the days where you should care about the platform. We have moved fr …
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10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech
Following on to last year's 10 Predictions for 2008 In the World of Tech and the recent results: My 2008 Tech Predictions Look Bad As Year Nears a Close.1) The Real-Time Web Will Become Critical for News and Information DiscoveryDelayed news will no longer be acceptable for early adopters, who will …
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RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks
People use Web browser bookmarks in vastly different ways. All of us have no doubt encountered people who bookmark just about everything, and don't organize them into folders, leaving the poor user to scroll through page after page to find the bookmark they are trying to find. Others don't bookmark …
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I Didn't Hold an End of Year Stock Sale in 2008
In January, amid some scorn, I admitted one of my yearly traditions has been to zero out my stock holdings in eTrade at the end of the calendar year, primarily to simplify that April's tax returns. Not having to span investment holdings over multiple years makes tabulating my profits or loss the fol …
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I've Taken a New Advisory Role With SocialToo
One of the most fun and rewarding byproducts of operating this blog has been to connect with entrepreneurs looking to improve their product and gain early feedback. Sometimes, I can help by doing more than just spreading the word about services I like, but get the opportunity to take time to suggest …
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LinkedIn Recommendations Are Feel Good Business for a Recession!
By Ken Stewart of ChangeForge (Twitter/FriendFeed)Nothing feels better than a pat on the back, and LinkedIn makes no exception to this rule!For those not familiar with LinkedIn, it is a professional social platform to share opportunities, ideas and information. According to LinkedIn, over 30 millio …
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