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Like to Argue? Try CreateDebate
2008-05-14 04:55:00 Do you agree with this? If not, you can join the debate going on at the web site CreateDebate. The site aims to take the classic internet flame wars and turn them into a more civilized event. Debates can spring up around any sort of topic and the homepage features the hottest ones. Expect ... More About: Fun , Web 2 , Argue
Use Facebook Chat via Jabber
2008-05-14 03:20:00 OK, this could actually make Facebook Chat useful: you will soon be able to access it via Jabber . Tonight, Facebook is announcing that they will soon release a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. Via any Jabber-based chat apps, you’ll be able to communicate with your Facebook friends, see who’s online, view friends’ profile pics, ...
Recent Articles at ReadWriteWeb
2008-05-14 01:39:00 Again, apologies in advance for those that follow me both places, but here is another round-up of my recent articles at RWW: Android Developer Challenge I Winners Announced The Android Developer Challenge is a two-part contest whose goal is to encourage developers to build apps for the new Google mobile platform, code-named "Android." In this first ... More About: Personal , Articles , Recent
The Truth About the Printed German Wikipedia
2008-05-08 23:22:00 …or the “Great Wikipedia Debate of 2008″ It seems only fair that I follow up a bit on the great big debacle that was my recent Wikipedia post on Read Write Web. If you missed it, let me catch you up: Apparently, I should be disappointed in spreading this FUD, I have no understanding of ... More About: Truth , German , Wikis , The Truth
Goodbye, Twitter Spammers
2008-05-08 01:39:00 I never thought Twitter spammers were that big of a deal. Unlike with spam in your inbox, you can just "unfollow" and "block" spammers, you know. However, it looks like Twitter won’t be letting spammers muck up the community they’ve built. I saw the news over on Stay N’ Alive, where Jesse Stay wrote: Today, ... More About: Goodbye , Spammers
New Digg Comments System Rocks
2008-05-07 19:01:00 Yesterday, thanks to Twitter’s ability to break news, I heard about the new Digg comment system from Digg founder Kevin Rose, when he posted (accidentally?) a video link to Twitter, but then quickly took it down. Perhaps a ploy, but it worked. The news hit the Digg front page fast. So what’s new with ... More About: System , Comments , Rocks
RSS via Outlook
2008-05-07 18:59:00 This is a guest post by Perry Reed, Twitterer, and LJ and Spaces blogger. Call me old-fashioned. While I think all this Web 2.0 (or 2.5 or whatever number you kids are up to now) is great and all, I still prefer email as my primary tool for getting things done. In particular, I use ... More About: Email , Outlook
Welcome New Grand Effect Bloggers!
2008-05-06 22:53:00 Our Grand Effect blog network isn’t going to grow very large, so this may be one of the last times you see an announcement about new members being added. Today, all of the Grand Effect bloggers want to welcome three more members to our network: Joe Anderson, Steven Hodson, and Mark Evans, all of ... More About: Personal , Blogging , Bloggers
Why Facebook Is Useless
2008-05-06 16:05:00 This is a guest article from Robin Cannon, who blogs regularly on web design, social networking and accessibility at his site Fog of Eternity. I’ve had a Facebook account for a while, I have well over 100 friends, and yet I still can’t see any real point to it. Barring an occasional visit to clear out ... More About: Useless
Yet Another FriendFeed/Twitter App
2008-05-06 04:21:00 Oh dear lord. As if we didn’t already have enough with the war between Twhirl and Alert Thingy (and Feed alizer and bTittleTattle!), here comes yet another AIR app for Twitter /Friend Feed users. This one is from the makers of the Firefox extension, MySocial 24×7, and, like the extension, the app focuses on consolidating your social ...
NIN does it again. Are you watching, Thom?
2008-05-06 03:15:00 This is a guest post by Shane Perris, who authors a blog at techwhimsy.com. Trent Reznor kept hard core Nine Inch Nails fans in desperate suspense for two weeks with cryptic clues in the properties of two free mp3 downloads - Discipline (made available from nin.com) and Echoplex (available exclusively through iLike on Facebook). We ... More About: Tech , Watching , Thom
NIN Giving Away More Free Music
2008-05-05 06:37:00 According to TorrentFreak, Nine Inch Nails (the only band that seems to get music 2.0) is offering a new single "Echoplex" for free on Facebook. I added myself as a fan of them on Facebook, but somehow missed the single - was there a trick to that? However, the single is also available for ... More About: Music , Free Music , Free , Giving
Added to AllTop
2008-05-05 05:34:00 Thanks to awesomesauce blogger, Corvida of SheGeeks, I just found out that along with her site, Sarahintampa.com has been added to AllTop’s social media page. Well, cool! Now, I did say not to long ago that when it came to dashboard sites I just "didn’t get it." I didn’t understand how anyone would choose to ... More About: Personal , Blogging
Gmail:2004, Mesh:2008
2008-05-03 03:13:00 Do you get that analogy? You will if you’ve been hanging out on the internet long enough. I’m recalling how hard it was to get a Gmail invite back when it first launched. That was the elite service to get into back in 2004. Luckily, I didn’t have to wait too long, allowing me ... More About: Microsoft , Mesh , 2008
The New Grand Effect Launches!
2008-05-02 02:31:00 Today, we’re proud to announce the completely revamped Grand Effect .com web site. The new site, redesigned by David Peralty of Xfep, features our network’s news, blogger profiles, RSS feeds - yes, including a combined feed for all our bloggers, and advertising info. There are still a few tweaks to be made and more features coming in ... More About: Personal , Blogging
Thoughtstream: Firefox, Google, Cloud Apps, and Mesh
2008-04-30 04:09:00 I started this post as a review of Spicebird. But my thoughts, here at the end of day, drifted. It happens. But if you bear with me, I actually make a point…I think: FIREFOX Recently, I’ve seen a couple of new Mozilla-based applications being discussed in the blogosphere, one of which is Spicebird. Now, to complement the ... More About: Google , Microsoft , Firefox , Mesh , Cloud
Forget Waiting, I?ve Got Your Mesh Right Here
2008-04-29 06:17:00 I said you had until Tuesday at midnight. I lied. I have plenty of comments now left by people looking for Mesh invites, so I may as well give them out now. Deciding Who Won This was a tough decision. I only have five invites, so who can I say is worthy of them? I wanted ... More About: Microsoft , Waiting
Another Way to Classify Twitter Users
2008-04-29 05:15:00 Recently, blogger Michael Klier came introduced a Greasemonkey script for identifying Twitter spammers based on the recommendations of a site called "The Twitter Blacklist." The site, which determines who is a Twitter spammer based on a "follow factor" ratio, has blocked 164 spammers to date. Michael’s script looks up the username of the visited Twitter ... More About: Users
7ags: Tag Clouds for YouTube
2008-04-28 05:47:00 Instead of doing searches on YouTube for videos, you can just hit up new site 7ags.com instead. 7ags wants to be your one-stop YouTube shop by offering you a place where you can find videos to watch via genres and tag clouds. The homepage features some recently found videos and a set of tags ... More About: Youtube , Clouds
Do You Want In On Live Mesh?
2008-04-26 07:19:00 Live Mesh is just about the hottest thing the tech world has seen in a long time. The product represents Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing, designed to blur the line between data stored on a computer and data stored in the cloud. This game-changing "software plus services" platform promises to synchronize devices, enable collaboration, ... More About: Live
Welcome to Live Mesh!
2008-04-26 00:44:00 Oh yeah, I’m in! I’m so excited to be trying out Mesh ’s tech preview I can hardly stand it. I *will* be playing with this all weekend, I’m sure. More to come… More About: Microsoft , Live
Oh, Right?
2008-04-23 23:10:00 Well, it’s back to Twhirl. In my excitement to finally have my Twitter stream and Friend Feed stream all in one window, (and de-duped!) I temporarily forgot my obsession with having Twhirl pinned on top of my other windows, something which is especially important when I’m on my laptop. So, it’s back to Twhirl for ...
The AlertThingy vs Twhirl War Continues
2008-04-23 21:08:00 Here we go again -the battle of the AIR apps continues. This time, it’s AlertThingy in the lead. They’ve just released version 1.3 of their popular Friend Feed AIR app, which you can download from their new and improved web site. The new version of AlertThingy is an answer to my prayers: Twitter and FriendFeed ...
Confused by Mesh? It?s Simple: Microsoft Just Changed the Game
2008-04-23 08:43:00 There’s a lot of Live Mesh talk going on tonight, and I think I’ve just read just about every blog post about it so far. People are posting introductions, analysis, screenshots, videos, demos, opinions and so much more. But Live Mesh is really too big of a concept to get boiled down to one ... More About: Microsoft , Game , The Game , Simple
A Few Good Twitpitches
2008-04-22 21:38:00 You may have seen my post over on Read Write Web about the concept for Twitpitches. I see that some companies are starting to use this system and I thought I would feature a few I thought were interesting: Tweetlater: This Twitter app lets you schedule tweets for a later date/time so it appears that ... More About: Web 2 , Good
FriendFeed Links
2008-04-21 21:19:00 Despite it being a Monday, I was happy to discover not one, but two great posts about Friend Feed today. One comes from Internet Duct Tape - "How to Import Your Twitter Contacts to FriendFeed." This post features a program that uses Google’s social graph to find links between your Twitter friends and FriendFeed users. ... More About: Links
iGoogle Becoming a Social Network
2008-04-21 20:52:00 Today, Google announced a new site for developers which will help them build gadgets for the iGoogle, the customized Google homepage. In addition to info about the site, available here, the announcement also mentioned some of iGoogle’s new features, including left navigation, a maximized or "canvas view" option for gadgets, and social features for ... More About: Social , Network , Social Network
Welcome, Unknowns
2008-04-18 23:49:00 OK. I just added a bunch of new feeds to my RSS reader tagged in the category of "unknowns." And I don’t mean "unknowns" in the "not-internet-famous" way, oh no; I mean unknown to me. I literally just found you. You have a blog? Oh! Well, let me check it out. I hope I ... More About: Blogging , Unknowns
More on PR and Pitching
2008-04-18 21:14:00 Despite Louis’s attempt to start this weekend’s bitchmeme on the topic of blogs and advertising - damn, Louis, you’re getting good at this! - I’m going to refrain from that discussion (as long as I can resist, that is) and write about something else instead. …And we thought Techmeme was the echo-chamber!….OK, just kidding, ... More About: Personal , Email , Blogging
FriendFeed Discussion Group
More articles from this author:2008-04-18 15:49:00 Something I never really paid much attention to in my emails from Friend Feed was the link to the FriendFeed discussion group, but today I clicked on it by accident. There are 886 messages in there! I saw topics like “add Twine to list of bookmarking services,” “Desktop application for FriendFeed,” and “Way to turn ... More About: Discussion , Group 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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