Posts Tagged with ‘techmeme’

A few hours ago Google updated Google Blog Search functionality with some very profound changes. When up until now the Blog Search represented mainly a usual search page dedicated to searching within a particular group of websites (blogs in this case), today the homepage of the blog search by Google is completely revamped to showcase [...]

I have read a post by Fred Wilson on his blog initiating a new discussion about what Techmeme sources should be and why Techmeme should include blog comments into account instead of focusing on blog posts (and articles on mainstream media websites) only. Fred not only encourages Gabe Rivera to include comments in the sources [...]

Two events this week are conspiring to ferment a theory. Unlike Louis Gray or Robert Scoble or even that traitor Duncan Riley, I still don't like FriendFeed, and I definitely don't think it's the next Google. But I've grudgingly grown to accept that FriendFeed is the Pet Rock of the early adopter set, and if [...]

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 [...]

I missed an embargo lifting this morning. It's happened on occasion when life has overtaken my planned schedule for testing and writing, or we've missed an email due to the enormous amount of spam that often comes into the address for pitches, but I would much rather miss being "one of the first" to review [...]

Have we finally reached the tipping point for actually stating that we have ethics and where we draw those lines? It wasn't even a month ago when I mentioned that all bloggers may need a personal code of ethics as detailed as Kara Swisher's if we wanted to be taken seriously as journalists. There is [...]

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 [...]

All hail Twitter Local which clued me in that RSSmeme creator Ben Golub actually lives in my own backyard. I planned on waiting until the next Open Coffee Club to grill him, but in honor of RSS Day, I bumped up my plan of attack and he agreed to an interview in honor of the [...]

With all the social media tools out there, the second most time-consuming activity after actually reading everyone you are following is figuring out who you should be reading. Most Twitter users and blog readers spend a significant amount of time trying to find the most relevant information. Aggregators like FriendFeed (our coverage) and Socialthing (our [...]