Posts Tagged with ‘friendfeed’

Web 2.0 has developed its own ecosystem, with application builders able to build their apps using mash-ups, AIR clients, and new apps on the backs of popular 2.0 apps already in wide distribution. Virtually every day we see announcements of new applications based on Twitter and FriendFeed and Google Reader, as well as Facebook apps, MySpace apps, and Hi5 apps. The real question, however, is what will happen to these companies and this ecosystem if one of the foundation companies [...]

Poor Louis. He may end up sorry that he ever raised his FriendFeed pompoms toward me. I've spent the past two days crawling all over FriendFeed to give it the chance that I never did. I added it to Twhirl so I could follow the updates during the day.
The truth is that I now detest it even more than I did before, but it's for different reasons.
My initial impression (and complaint) back when I first reviewed FriendFeed was that it [...]

Returning back home after Web 2.0 Expo, I felt bereft. No longer could I turn quickly to my trusty RAZR, send a Twitter message to @fireball, and find out where people were. It's a silly thing to want, but if you are making plans to go out, it's helpful to have, especially if you are trying to meet up somewhere.
When @smbeebe asked if anyone wanted an invite to Brightkite, a location-based social network currently in private beta, I jumped at [...]

It may be time for Popular Mechanics to be declared dead. The 468 individuals who Digged the article should hang it up as well. There are really 468 people out there who think that How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It is actually news?
The concept of a semantic web was introduced years ago. References to it can be found as far back as 2000, with a more formal definition appearing in a column on O'Reily by [...]

I was determined to remain out of this weekend's bitchmeme. I'm an old-fashioned kind of girl who comments on the blog where the author knows I said something, reads my feeds offline half the time, and doesn't jump on the latest bandwagon when it comes to "conversation."
However, when the headline crossed my radar saying "Era of blogger’s control is over" I realized that for all this caterwauling, people are missing the point. Robert Scoble is missing the point, but then [...]

This post really should have a subtitle of “What should you be doing when it comes to customer service?” because it's one of the most crucial ways that a company can screw it up. Mistakes happen, and it's often overwhelming dealing with unhappy or unsatisfied customers. But meeting at least a bare minimum expectation can go a long way toward increasing a user base, and going the extra mile goes even farther.
I can think of several instances where companies have [...]

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

No sooner does a social media app take off than new ways of using said app to recreate cliques follow. Whether it's blogs or Twitter or FriendFeed, it seems there has to be a group of cool kids, and one of the not-so-cool kids.
Going in reverse order, there is already a pruning being done of FriendFeed accounts. To me, it's understandable; all FriendFeed has really done is add one more social network for people to have to track. Rather than [...]

I read Marshall Kirkpatrick's Twine review as well as Nova Spivack's response today, and realized that there is often a huge disconnect between what developers feel is a product's readiness state, and the general public's, even when it comes to those writing about tech.
I'm still a software developer at heart, and the ubiquitous Web 2.0 Beta sticker seems to have dulled the perception of what state an application is really in, resulting in a lot of disappointed users [...]