Posts Tagged with ‘friendfeed’

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 [...]

We do seem to be talking too much about women in technology lately but given the latest Playboy poll and the BlogHer conference I think it is not surprising. So ReadWriteWeb came up with a list of favorite female bloggers compiled by its bloggers. Obviously, it was a pleasure to have two Profy bloggers included in the list. After that Orli Yakuel (who was obviously on the list as well) created a slideshow of 50 blogs written [...]

I think there are a lot of people who still point at the divide between someone's "social" life — that being the life they possess as a member of internet-based communities and networks — and "real" social life, saying the void can't be crossed.  While we might not be at the point where our two social lives overlap seamlessly, there is still a lot of value in developing tools for understanding and enhancing our social life in the physical world.
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There's a lot to be said for simplicity.  Simplicity can mean focused and directed, but it can also mean lacking.  Reaching a balance of features and complexity while maintaining clarity and simplicity is a difficult task for any mobile social platform developer.  Though I feel like I'm beating a dead horse, I think the best mobile social platforms will be ones that aggregate the most popular computer-based platforms natively as full-time applications run over the data networks of mobile handsets.  [...]

Finally we are beginning to see the fruits of the huge boost in Twitter's funding, something that the Twitter team is no doubt relieved to see as well. Granted, saying that Twitter's failure numbers have been drastically reduced is similar to Ford saying that Focus SVT engine fires were becoming less frequent a few years back, but I suppose we'll take what we can get.
Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, wrote a blog post in which he documented 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 [...]

Allen Stern has an excellent video up today on Center Networks that highlights one of the most frustrating foundation issues I have with Web 2.0 and social media: for whatever reason, we seem to want to have a monarchy wherever we go.
In the U.S., we have a de facto monarchy created out of the entertainment industry. In the tech world, we have recreated that same A-list worship, which Allen points out.
What confuses me the most about the FriendFeed issue that [...]

Tonight Profy will be playing host to a new podcast called Things You Can't Say About the Internet, with me, Steven Hodson of Mashable and WinExtra, and Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr.
We'll probably be discussing Twitter clones and FriendFeed zealotry as well as a number of things, so please join us tonight. With the parties involved, there may end up being a wee bit of "Not safe for work, kids, or polite company" language, so there's your last warning.
The show [...]

Is not it funny how creators of various web 2.0 tools give us the tools that they intend for one thing and eventually users find unexpected uses that the developers did not even think about? This happened with Twitter - everyone talked about microblogging and we started to use Twitter mostly as a communications tool and now the creators explain that the platform can't cope with the load because they never built it as a messenger tool.
The [...]