Posts Tagged with ‘techmeme’

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 but he actually puts the question as "When Will A Comment Be Treated Like A Post On Techmeme?". So it's not even [...]

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 you want to see and be seen, you need to be there.
A little over a week ago, FriendFeed added "personalized recommendations," three links accessible on [...]

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 has argued that we can't delineate Web 2.0 since so much of the technology has existed since the beginning of the Web.
Everyone has tried to [...]

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 a new product or service than put out an article that shows little to no effort.
What is disappointing to me is the number of blogs I [...]

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 often a fuzzy line, especially when you are writing in a world where blogs often co-sponsor parties with the companies they are supposed to be covering.
Duncan [...]

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 [...]

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 day.
Cyndy: So what prompted you to come up with RSSmeme?
Ben: It's really all thanks to Louis Gray, who hyped Readburner, which is a great [...]

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 coverage ) can help, but two suggestion engines have emerged recently to help you.
The first, Toluu, imports your feeds and then matches you up with [...]

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 [...]