Posts Tagged with ‘friendfeed’

Brilliant Google Product Policy and Why Buzz Is Wise

Svetlana Gladkova

Given how huge Google is and the giant’s reputation in the online business world, it is no wonder that everything that Google chooses to launch as a new product never stays unnoticed and gets tons of coverage in the blogosphere and in traditional media.
The latest addition of Google Buzz is no exception, of course, as [...]

Now We Know Facebook Liked FriendFeed a Lot but What about the Users?

Svetlana Gladkova

So yesterday we heard the big news about Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. We have quickly remembered certain hints that should have demonstrated us there was the possibility long ago but the deal was obviously a surprise for the tech crowd and the blogosphere and everyone has been discussing the deal from every possible perspective but of [...]

How Wise Is The Crowd (Even If It Is Social Media Crowd)?

Svetlana Gladkova

Earlier this week I published a post about ProProfs Polls, a new service for online polls that features some advantages over the traditional market leaders. When writing the post, I could not avoid asking myself why we already have so many web polling services already and why new ones are still launched to impress their [...]

Early Adopter Fatigue – Are You Suffering?

Svetlana Gladkova

A few days ago I made a terrible confession in one of the posts here: I admitted that I have never installed an application on my cell phone and that I don’t even want to as I feel myself online enough spending most of my waking hours in front of my computer screen buried deep [...]

Facebook Got 10 Million More US Visitors Than MySpace in January, Officially the Largest Social Network

Svetlana Gladkova

I just love the days when the web analytics service Compete makes its data for the previous month available to all of us as we get the chance to look into statistics of various websites we like to track for some reason and see how they are doing compared to their competitors. Since Compete is [...]

Beep Tower – Dead-Simple Sharing of Links with Your Less Tech-Savvy Friends

Svetlana Gladkova

Now that we are deep into the recession it is quite understandable that we don’t see many startups launched, especially those that require huge investment and long time to bring in enough users to begin earning something off the service eventually. But of course there are still web enthusiasts who will always develop some nice [...]

FriendFeed Officially a Time Waster as Companies Begin to Block it in the Offices

Svetlana Gladkova

The issue of companies blocking access of their employees to certain websites has already been discussed a lot and normally I myself am of opinion that the company can determine what activities it is actually willing to pay its employees for - and browsing social networks or watching porn in the office may not really [...]

New Firefox Addon Brings All the Content That Matters Right To Your Browser

Svetlana Gladkova

There’s an interesting Firefox addon I wanted to introduce to everyone today, it is called Feeds in a Box and is intended to help you easier consume all the content you happen to consume online - without interrupting your web browsing experience yet staying informed of everything that matters to you. The addon will bring [...]

FriendFeed IM – Nice Alternative to Dedicated Desktop Applications

Svetlana Gladkova

Yesterday the FriendFeed team announced integration with instant messaging services that allows users to send updates to FriendFeed right from the IM dialogue and also see and reply to new comments on their posts and be updated when new items are posted by friends. At this stage the FriendFeed IM only works with Google Talk [...]

Artiklz Aggregates All the Social Media Activity around Your Content to Your Blog

Svetlana Gladkova

Last week I had a chance to speak with the team at Artiklz, a San Francisco based startup that is officially debuting in public alpha tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. The startup works in the blog commenting field and the first thing I thought was that the field was over-saturated already and [...]