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Xoopit, Feedly ? 2 Products Worthy of Your Love
2008-06-18 17:19:00
As social media enthusiasts, we?re always playing with the latest shiny new objects ? we?re blogging about them, tweaking them, and putting them through their paces. However, it?s rare that we find new web apps or services that we really fall in love with. When we do ? you?ll know. We?ll talk about them so ...
More About: Products , Love , Web 2 , Worthy

Get Firefox?If You Can
2008-06-17 12:19:00
So today is Firefox ?s big day: June 17th: Download Day. At Mozilla, they?ve set a goal to achieve the Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. The number they want to reach is 5 million. As of 1 PM ET, the Firefox download page at www.getfirefox.com featured the new Firefox 3 web ...
More About: Flock

FriendFeed Rooms Just Got More Useful
2008-06-16 22:02:00
Since the launch of Friend Feed rooms only weeks ago, the feature was widely adopted by the community. People have since created rooms around a topic, a blog, or even a live event, as with the WWDC keynote. However, one feature that a lot of people have been asking for is the ability to import ...

Flock+Firefox 3 = Flock 2.0
2008-06-16 10:35:00
Flock, the Mozilla-based social browser, is now available in a newly released beta version, Flock 2.0. This latest version of the browser comes after a big round of funding - $15 million led by Fidelity Ventures, which has infused the company with energy and resources to keep plugging away at improvements to Flock. The company ...
More About: Firefox , Firefox 3 , Flock

Add a Twitter Stats Badge to Your Blog
2008-06-13 17:34:00
I just recently saw that there?s a new blog widget which twitterers are going to love ? the Twitter counter. This small graphic looks very similar to the RSS badge provided by FeedBurner, except instead of showing your subscriber numbers, it shows the number of Twitter followers you have. To get your own badge, go to ...
More About: Blogging , Blog , Stats , Badge

Toluu Adds More Features, Helps You Decide How to Subscribe
2008-06-11 08:39:00
It?s great when you see a service that continually improves as Toluu has been doing for some time. Today?s news is only the latest in a long line of updates from this RSS sharing-and-matching service, and it includes the arrival of more features as well as some tweaks to existing ones. As of today, Toluu ...
More About: Features , Subscribe

Resistance is Futile, It?s FriendFeed FTW!
2008-06-10 13:48:00
Yesterday, when the big Apple iPhone hoopla and hype sent floods of traffic to popular technology news web sites, blogs, and services, we all expected Twitter to go down in flames. They didn?t do so, a feat so downright unbelievable that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch even took time to congratulate them via a blog ...
More About: Friend , Feed , Resistance

Testing Out the Flickr App for Blackberry
2008-06-09 00:23:00
Only a few weeks ago, I was lamenting on Twitter about the lack of a good flickr application for the Blackberry smartphone. I already have a mobile Facebook app with photo upload capabilities, so why not one for flickr? I knew that flickr would allow you to email in photos, but an app would ...
More About: Testing , Flickr

Brightkite Invites
2008-06-05 18:02:00
I was playing online at Brightkite.com and I just realized that I have 5 Brighkite invites left. Want one? Then comment here on the blog and let me know. I?ll need your email address to send you the invite so you?ll need to leave it in your comment somehow. If you don?t like doing that, ...

ScrnShots Officially Launches
2008-06-05 05:24:00
If you take a lot of screenshots ? whether for use in blogging or just because you?re inspired by the design of something you saw on the web - then you may be interested in the service from ScrnShots, which I dubbed a sort of ?flickr for screenshots,? back when it was still in ...
More About: Blogging

Taking a Breather From Social Media? Maybe We?re Doing It Wrong
2008-06-03 05:49:00
Today, Colin Walker had a great, philosophical post on taking time out from social media to gain perspective. While on vacation, it was almost like he broke some addiction he had with social media services like Twitter and Friend Feed, realizing that: “The further you drift away from the conversation the harder it is to become ...
More About: Personal , Social , Media , Blogging

Google Dropped the Ball on Jaiku
2008-05-29 17:59:00
This is a guest post by Shane Perris who blogs at Techwhimsy, “a place for considered ideas, current events in review and explorations of how to do things not just because you need to but just because you can.” What are the three hottest web 2.0 social services right now?  Judging by the latest buzz ...
More About: Google , Mobile , Web 2 , Friend , Feed

Using FriendFeed?s Public Links
2008-05-29 15:40:00
Maybe you haven’t joined Friend Feed yet, but that’s no reason why you still can’t enjoy the resources it provides. A handful of links from the service can act as your own personal information filter for finding out what’s currently hot on the net without you ever needing to sign in. How is that possible? ...
More About: Public , Links

YackTrack Adds Feeds, Launches APIs
2008-05-29 01:44:00
See that YackTrack link at the bottom of this post (RSS readers click through to see what I mean). This little link lets you use the conversation tracking service provided by YackTrack to follow the discussion surrounding an article all across the net including sites like Digg, Disqus, Friend Feed , Mixx, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and WordPress. ...
More About: Blogging

TinySong Helps You Tweet Music
2008-05-29 00:58:00
From Grooveshark there now comes a handy new tool called TinySong that lets you share music with your friends. To use TinySong, you enter in an artist’s name or the name of the song and do a search. From the Grooveshark database, a list of results will appear. When you see the one you ...
More About: Music , Twitter , Tweet

The Twitpitch Plugin
2008-05-28 19:51:00
Thanks to Leslie Poston at Profy, I’m alerted to a new Wordpress plugin that jumps on the TwitPitch bandwagon, allowing you to get PR pitches DM’d to you via your blog or web site. Nifty! If you missed the debut of the TwitPitch, it was an idea invented by Stowe Boyd, a business strategy ...
More About: Blogging , Plugin , Twitter

Read My Interview on BloggerTalks
2008-05-28 19:22:00
I would like to thank Thord Daniel Hedengren, who just interviewed me over on BloggerTalks. Get to know me and learn more about Grand Effect over here: http://bloggertalks.com/2008/05/sarah-per ez-and-the-grand-effect/. There’s also a short plug about this on today’s The Blog Herald. Thanks, that was fun!
More About: Personal , Blogging , Interview , Read

Who Are You People Anyway?
2008-05-27 06:13:00
Today, our online world is very much a reflection of the "real" world - we have good friends, acquaintances, colleagues, mentors, peers, family, and others, all of whom join us online in some way, shape, or form. And for those that live in big cities, especially tech meccas like San Francisco, Seattle, or New ...
More About: People , Web 2 , Blogging

Export Your RSS With Feedpour
2008-05-25 23:35:00
It’s good to have programmer friends. One of mine made a tool just for me and he said that I can tell you about it now, too. The tool is called Feedpour and it’s the kind of thing any pro blogger would love. Why pro bloggers? Because for those of us that write professionally, ...
More About: Blogging , Export , Useful

NewsTwits Delivers Tweets to the Enterprise
2008-05-23 06:55:00
Newstex, a content-on-demand company, serves news and commentary to companies and industries that require real-time information. Some of their customers include CNNMoney, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, LexisNexis, and The New York Times. For the different types of markets they serve, they offer specialized newsfeeds that deliver information from a ...
More About: Twitter , Enterprise

bTT Twitter/FriendFeed Combo App Gets an Update
2008-05-21 23:08:00
If you haven’t already heard of bTT, get up-to-speed by reading this great review over on Corvida’s site. This Twitter /FriendFeed combo app has probably gotten overlooked by many due to it being Windows-only. However, if you are on Windows, it’s certainly worth a look. After initially launching a less-than-worthy app by the silly name of bTittleTattle, the company actually listened to the feedback users provided and completely remade the app based on what people wanted. That new app was then re-branded as bTT and relaunched. Now, bTT is nothing like its predecessor, except for the fact that both let you access FriendFeed via the desktop. Unlike Twhirl, which provides FriendFeed in a separate window, bTT takes a note from AlertThingy’s book and combines the streams. Each service can turned on or off as desired in the app’s settings and there is a convenient link to click to access your FriendFeed remote key. The app does several things well - its sort-...
More About: Update , Combo

Intwition Relaunches - Now Tracks Online Chatter, Breaks News
2008-05-21 07:38:00
The site Intwition, formerly a Twitter app, just relaunched yesterday as a whole new service. This new version of the site, only ten days old, aims to find and display what stories are being discussed on the internet right now. Initially, those stories come from Twitter as the primary source of that chatter, but as time goes on, other inputs will be added. The way Intwition works is by listening to the online chatter, and when the chatter level is high enough, posting an unconfirmed story on the homepage. Example: "Unconfirmed: Something Happening with Earthquake, China, Maginitude, 7.8, Felt" After that initial posting, Intwition then scans the web looking for articles from verified sources as well as pictures and video. As these items are found, they are posted on the homepage in order of their popularity and relation to the story. Stories stay up as long as they are being discussed. Major stories are highlighted in red or orange and older and minor stories are in smal...
More About: News , Online , Tracks , Breaks , Chatter

Is FriendFeed Doomed?
2008-05-20 17:29:00
This is a guest post by Jarred Taylor who regularly blogs at Tropophilia on social networking and technology issues. As it exists today, FriendFeed is probably the most useful social tool on the web.  I’m only a casual user, but its speed, simplicity, and solid feature set are impressive.  The combination of a wide spectrum of supported services, a large and active user base, and powerful comment and "like" system set it apart from its competitors.  However, it is destined to be crushed unless it is acquired by one of the bigger players. The recent announcements by Google and Facebook with their respective "Connect" projects present direct and deadly challenges to FriendFeed.  These are but the beginning of much larger social strategies that these giants have been developing for years.  I have written on my own blog about the differences between Google and Facebook’s approaches to their projects, but in their essence they hav...
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Personal Blogging With Logdit
2008-05-17 02:37:00
At one time when blogs were new, you could privately blog your thoughts and feelings on the web and be pretty sure that no one was reading them unless you gave them a URL. But today, blogging is all about openness and transparency: this is me and this is what I think. That’s an ...
More About: Personal , Blogging

Recent Posts On ReadWriteWeb
2008-05-17 01:38:00
Too Many Choices, Too Much Content Sometimes it’s just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers. Take a day off and you’re behind. Take an ...
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Wiiizzz, a Twitter Jukebox
2008-05-17 00:38:00
Wiiizzz offers a way to discover what people on Twitter have been listening to and sharing on Twitter by aggregating tracks and posting them in a random order on the Wiiizzz homepage. Right now though, only the band names display. You can click the play button next to the band name to listen to ...
More About: Music , Jukebox

A Perfect Storm: Twitter and FriendFeed Kick It at the Same Time
2008-05-15 03:10:00
I take it all back, I want to drown in awesomeness! It’s one thing for Twitter to be down (I wonder what Corvida’s doing now?), but for Twitter and Friend Feed to be down at the same time? Noooo…. Seriously! I got this:             Can everyone just please send me your tweets in the comments? Help!….Oh and ...
More About: Time , Storm

ReadAir Isn?t Ready Yet
2008-05-14 23:52:00
How excited was I when I heard that there was now a Google Reader Adobe AIR application that would let me browser through my feeds outside a browser? Pretty freaking excited! But then I thought "wait - why do I need this?" This doesn’t really help me solve a problem. With Twhirl, for example, ...
More About: Ready

FriendFeed in Your Firefox Sidebar
2008-05-14 21:47:00
Neat! The World of Slippy blog recently posted some steps on how you can put Friend Feed into your Firefox sidebar in just a couple of steps. The trick involves using Christopher Finke’s Feed Sidebar extension. After it’s installed, you can just use Firefox’s Live Bookmarks feature to add your FriendFeed atom feed (click here) ...

More on "Too Many Choices, Too Much Content"
2008-05-14 21:18:00
I’m following the discussion around my latest rant on RWW (“Too Many Choices , Too Much Content ”) using YackTrack. If that was your kind of post, you’ll want to check out these related articles too: He Beat Me To It! Mark Evans Tech: “So Much to Do, Not Enough Time!” More: Video: Merlin’s New Time & Attention Talk Content ...