Posts Tagged with ‘friendfeed’

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 [...]

Today Caroline McCarthy reports that the rumors about AOL buying SocialThing have been confirmed. Frank Gruber has provided some of the background details about how the startup made its first steps and finally reached this acquisition.
SocialThing is a startup that serves as an aggregator for various online services (not many of them for now with a strange omission of regular RSS feeds). SocialThing is obviously one of the competitors to Friendfeed but even after some grudge on the launch date [...]

Today SecondBrain announces a number of new services added to its lifestream aggregator and expected funding. For those of you uninitiated, the Norwegian startup is a lifestream aggregator that not only aggregates content from supported services but also allows user to create tag-based collections of content based on topics of their choice.
Today’s announcement includes addition of a total of 10 new services, including FriendFeed, Facebook, Diigo, Reddit, Mixx, and Qik. My concern is that at least addition of FriendFeed may [...]

You may have noticed that we rolled out a redesign to the Profy blog (if you are not viewing Profy in a feed reader). We feel that the new design is cleaner and hope you will like it as well as we do here.
We have also added some new functional blocks. For example, we have decided that we love our frequent commentators too much not to acknowledge them anywhere so you will now see a special block in the [...]

Hello. I'm Svetlana and I'm a FriendFeed addict. I have a habit of checking FriendFeed every time that I strike out every single completed task on my to-do list (yes, I admit that I'm conservative enough to still do it on paper). A few minutes earlier I clicked the "Publish" button on the previous post and went to FriendFeed to see if I had anything urgent or interesting to reply to. And I failed. No, I mean [...]

SocialOyster is a very new lifestreaming service that I am very impressed by after giving it a test run. The best part about SocialOyster is the unusual selection of services the site provides in addition to lifestreaming as it is. But let me start with a short introduction. I am often amazed at how startups manage to do everything wrong when pitching bloggers. Today's example was when I extracted from my "Spam" folder an email with the [...]

I have bumped into a post by Mark Krynsky today titled "AOL launches buddyupdates Lifestreaming Service and Nobody Notices". Since I am far from a heavy AIM user myself (I only have 2 contacts and one of them actually forced me to get another IM protocol when I clearly felt I did not need one), I had not been aware of the buddyupdates existence neither so it was interesting to check it out, especially because it was [...]

It is definitely great new that today Facebook is rolling out the filters for the News Feed to improve our experience with the feature of the social network. True, I actually expected more improvements right when the redesigned profiles were launched and I still think one huge thing is missing but the filters already make it better.
Logically, the new functionality launched today on Facebook allows for some additional filtering within the news feed where we see the [...]

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 [...]