Posts Tagged with ‘friendfeed’

Twhirl Catches a Much-Needed Performance Update

Triston McIntyre

Twhirl, one of the more popular Twitter clients available to both Windows and Mac OS X users, just received a crucial tune-up. It would almost seem that the Twhirl team released this latest update to lend a hand to the struggling Twitter group; many Twitter users have been frustrated by recent cut-backs at Twitter to [...]

The 1.0 Lessons Missed By 2.0

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

In the ongoing Internet war, we have Gen X/Web 1.0 refugees on one side, and Gen Y/Web 2.0 upstarts on the other. No matter where I turn, there is always some new debate about which one has done more; which one is a true bubble. The typical Web 2.0 defense goes something like this: The [...]

Are We Watching the Redefinition of Intellectual Property?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Who owns what? There's a battle going on right now, and it's spreading to every possible domain: what exactly IS intellectual property, and who owns it? In an era in which copyright protection is seemingly extended indefinitely, a la the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, corporations are seemingly trying to prevent anything from ever entering the [...]

The Social Contract Does Not Exist

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

At the risk of participating in a little more blogosphere navel-gazing, one of the strange things I've seen in FriendFeed is the conversations that break out there completely out of the blue. Whether it's due to the frequent Twitter outages, or just a different way of looking at a lifestreaming service, I'm not sure, but [...]

Take the Red Pill: We Have No True Web 2.0

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

The other night, my husband asked me a question I had no answer for: when we've moved on to whatever Web 3.0 is going to be, what will be left of Web 2.0? There are carryovers from the 1.0 Bubble, but when you think about it, the Web itself is 1.0. And Tim Berners-Lee himself [...]

What Ever Happened to Not Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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, [...]

FriendFeed: The New Echo Chamber

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

Brightkite: I May Not Have to Miss Fireball After All

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

Popular Mechanics Declares Search Dead. Also, Research Is Hard Work

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]

If Robert Scoble Is Right, Then Web 2.0 Is Dead

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

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 [...]