Posts Tagged with ‘friendfeed’

Strands Lifestreaming Service with Tools for Noise Reduction and a Focus on Social Discovery

Svetlana Gladkova

I have recently received an invitation to try out the relatively new lifestreaming aggregator Strands and since lifestreaming is one of the hottest trends these days I wanted to give it a try and share my thoughts here for anyone who may be considering trying another lifestreaming service or looking for strong alternatives to FriendFeed. [...]

Robert Scoble Thinks There Are Only Two Great Tech Blogs – and I am Understandably Happy

Svetlana Gladkova

On Friday Robert Scoble published a list of 160+ people worth subscribing to on FriendFeed for everyone interested in technology news. Quite understandably, this list have become one of the most discussed things over the weekend with people either criticizing Robert for this list or thanking him for compiling it.
I think that I have the [...]

Talk Like a Pirate Day: Will The Web Audience Ever Grow Up?

Svetlana Gladkova

Sometimes I have a feeling that the entire web industry is full of hip and cool kids - no matter how old they are and how expensive their toys like iPhone and Apple MacBook Air are. Today’s example is the Talk Like A Pirate day that seems to be absolutely everywhere.
I woke up today to [...]

Lifestream.fm Out Of Private Beta, Looks Like Ready to Compete with FriendFeed

Svetlana Gladkova

I have just received an announcement from creators of Lifestream.fm that the service is out of private beta now with tons of new features worth trying out for everyone keeping track of the current trends in lifestreaming. Lifestream.fm was acquired by German social bookmarking service Mister Wong back in April and since then the team [...]

SocialCast Launches Enterprise Micro-Blogging Tool Today

Svetlana Gladkova

SocialCast positions itself as a provider of corporate networking and collaboration platform to help businesses leverage the power of networking between employees in the most creative ways. Basically that means that any business can use SocialCast platform to build a social network for its employees and use it as a centralized communications hub.
Today SocialCast announces [...]

Forget Your Small FriendFeed Wishes, We are Having Dream Coming True

Svetlana Gladkova

Right after we were shown the upcoming FriendFeed beta featuring friend lists and some other interesting tweaks of the interface, people started sharing what else could make our experience of FriendFeed closer to perfect in the special room for discussions the team set up for everyone to share their feedback on the redesign. I believe [...]

FriendFeed Copying Facebook and Offering Abuse Opportunities

Svetlana Gladkova

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. [...]

Why Does AOL Need Two Lifestreaming Services, SocialThing and Buddyupdates?

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

SecondBrain Aggregates More Services Pursuing Its Plans of Building the Next Millennium Library

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]

Profy is Redesigned and Does Not Lose Comments to FriendFeed Anymore

Svetlana Gladkova

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 [...]