June 2008
9 posts
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NoiseRiver vs FriendFeed
With the conversation moving away from “Twitter killer” and focusing more on how FriendFeed will evolve. There are new tools popping up to help FriendFeed fans get the most out of the microblogging, lifestreaming service.
FFtogo, for example is how I access FriendFeed from my Blackberry. FFtogo provides a better user experience than the mobile version of FriendFeed because in addition...
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Twitter Dies, FriendFeed the New Microblogging...
Something feels a little different today in microblogging land. The tide seems to have turned. Twitter, the trend-maker that has seen better days now seems to have died a slow and painful death of a thousand cuts. Twitter has been limiing along, not quite ready to die. It made it through Apple’s WWDC when we thought it wouldn’t, but since then, Twitter has been hamstringing...
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IntenseDebate Re-Posts FriendFeed Conversation...
With the increased popularity of sites like FriendFeed that aggregate content from across the web and then facilitate discussion around that content, there is growing concern voiced by bloggers that conversations initiated on blogs are being fragmented as they get distributed and republished.
IntenseDebate may have a solution. The blog commenting company has a new FriendFeed integration,...
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New York Times Launches TimesPeople
The New York Times reading faithful now have a new way to discover what other NYT readers find interesting as well as share articles, videos, slideshows, blog posts, comments on articles, and ratings and reviews of movies, restaurants and hotels with friends.
While TimesPeople is a social network of sorts, MySpace and Facebook it’s not. Safe to say, there won’t ever be embarrasing...
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Walt Mossberg is Influential?
Steven Baker of BusinessWeek has the inside scoop on on his blog about a soon-to-be released study by the University of Miami and USC that correlates a company’s stock performance with reviews of its products by Walt Mossberg of the WSJ.
Initial data shows on average, “firms with bad product reviews saw stock losses of $200 million, while those with positive reviews saw gains of $500...
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FriendFeed as a PR / Marketing Platform
We, at MEDIAdeluge, have been vocal lately about the future of twitter as well as emerging players in the microblogging space. Now, with the wheels seeming to come off at Twitter as they struggle to scale, new players are ripe to swallow that audience. FriendFeed is one of those players. We’ve panned FriendFeed as a broadly adopted consumer application, but think there is definite promise...
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Twitter Killer... Or, is Twitter Already Dead?
Death by a thousand cuts seems to be the way Twitter will surrender its lead position in the increasingly competitive microblogging space. A strong competitor has yet to emerge and eat Twitter’s lunch, although FriendFeed and johnny-come-lately Plurk are gaining traction. Pownce and Jaiku too are waiting in the wings. Regardless, Twitter’s star seems to be waning. In fact, the exodus may already...
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Twitter vs Plurk
With all the downtime problems Twitter has been experiencing lately, it could be just a matter of time before there is a mass exodus to another service. My guess is it wouldn’t take much to trigger the exodus — at least among the early-adopting tech crowd.
Because the microblogging space is so nascent, a departure of even a few of the key tweeters like @leolaporte, @JasonCalacanis...
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The Conversational Web -- Microblogging part 2
In the early days of the web, much of the race was to bring content online. For the most part, that content was static. Web 2.0 is making the web much more conversational. Instead of going to sites and taking in what is there, people can now contribute content. Sites that foster direct communication and online networking are exploding in popularity. Mashable, for example lists 350+ social...