Posts Tagged with ‘aggregator’

We used to talk about Facebook trying to copy FriendFeed with the addition of filters to consume the content from news feeds in the social network. Now I think we should declare that FriendFeed is trying to copy Facebook in the new beta design that is available for public preview and discussion now at beta.friendfeed.com. The beta version has not been rolled out as the default interface to all FriendFeed users but anyone interested (and it looks like tons of [...]

Social Median has been opened up to a public beta now. Early adopter type that I am, I of course had to run right over and check it out. I’m still playing with it, but I have a few initial impressions about the overall service so far.
First, Social Median is no FriendFeed. If you were hoping for a replacement to FriendFeed like I was, this is not it. It has a few similar features, but in the end, it is [...]

Today the rather popular network for bloggers MyBlogLog announces redesign of their website - unfortunately, without any new features or without following the obvious pattern of FriendFeed.
In general it seems to me that the company has decided to stick to changing the design whenever they feel that some improvements are needed. But unfortunately new design does not guarantee popularity for the service. True, the new version of their community widget for blogs drew enough attention to the [...]

It seems like, for better or worse, we just can't quite come to a decision about FriendFeed, can we?  Perhaps we're resigned to an endless back and forth about the social aggregating platform.  But, as many of us know, any controversy converts to traffic, which is something FriendFeed can take solace in.
Getting to the point, I just did a little checking of my feeds and read a post written by Allen Stern on the rather uncanny way a few [...]

As mobile social platforms are sort of a pet hobby of mine, I'm keen to learn about any and every update to the platforms that are currently vying for consumers' affections.  One such competitor is FriendFeed, which has a very fluid little build of its social aggregator platform available to iPhone users.
That platform just received an update, and things are looking good.  MG Seigler over at Venture Beat was able to try out the updated platform; updates include a [...]

If you've been lingering around Profy for a while, you might recall that I recently covered the mobile social platform Fring along with others like Xumii.  You might also recall that Fring opened its API to developers interested in designing mobile social applications.  Just a few weeks since that announcement, developers have already delivered two heavy-hitting applications to the Fring community.
That's right, merely weeks after announcing the release of its API to developers, Fring has landed applications for [...]

How does that saying go? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery? If that is true, then FriendFeed should feel very special, because the most popular social network on the planet is taking pointers from the up-and-coming social aggregator.
Far be it from Facebook to let a good feature that some website innovates go to waste. FriendFeed, which is primarily an aggregator of various social media platforms, provides a unique way for users to [...]

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase.
There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My favorite variety have been mobile social aggregators. This is largely because I have my paws in far too many social applications, and any platform [...]

Though Steve Jobs' keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference tends to be one of the biggest Apple events anually, today's keynote was a bit lack-luster.  Jobs announced a 3G iPhone with real GPS for a frugal $199, a fleet of iPhone Apps store products, OS X "Snow Leopard," a change to .Mac and more.  At some point during the first hour of boring iPhone Apps store information, Jobs brought up a social platform for the iPhone called Loopt .  [...]