There’s been a lot of talk lately about conversation and comment fragmentation, especially since Friendfeed.com, the new darling of Web2.0, has been gaining traction. On Friendfeed, we sign up, plug in our own feeds and ‘friend’ others whose feeds we like. But what makes the service really unique is the more social aspects of it. We can also manually post and link to items and even comment on those items right within Friendfeed itself.
And that’s what has a lot of people buzzing. If a member of Friendfeed posts a link to a blog post from someone who’s not a member and it sparks a big discussion within Friendfeed itself, that discussion is not happening at the point of origin, the non-member’s blog post itself. Continue reading »
Posted: Thu 5.29.08 @ 7:01am EST by Paul Short
As far as I can tell from this story at the BBC, Microsoft has openly admitted that it sees the use of the Linux OS on OLPC and NetPC (inexpensive laptops and subnotebooks offered in developing countries) as a real threat. “The success of the Eee PC and the rush by many companies to release similar products has seen a recent about-turn by Microsoft.
The wildly popular Wordpress blogging software turns 5 years old tomorrow, Tuesday May 27/08. It’s certainly come a long way in that time. I personally started using it at around version 1.2 (or was it 1.4?) back when calendars and blogrolls in the sidebar were cool and there wasn’t an ads to bee seen. Anyways, the wordpress team will
This one has been talked about a lot around the web, but in case you’re a heavy-footed motorist and haven’t heard of it yet, check out Trapster. It’s a US based social network where you can notify other motorists on the service via cellphone when you spot a speed trap. The Trapster service, which bills itself as
Grab a pencil and a very large piece of paper. Lay it on the floor. Now go to your computer and surf to Twitterholic.com. Then take the top 15 - 20 people off that list and write their names on that piece of paper on your floor. Now look at the numbers under the heading “Followers.”
It’ used to be a pre-requisite to geekdom - white earbuds attached to everyone’s favorite MP3 player. They were like cowboy hats on a cowboy or gold chains blinging up the necks of rappers, but like the rappers who went too far with giant medallions and pimp cups, this dude may be jumping the Apple shark.
I confess, I don’t own a Mac computer (yet), but for those of you who do, and there are a lot more of you than there were a year ago, Justine Ezarik over at TastyBlogSnack.com (you know her as iJustine) has an excellent post up on how to weed out files on your hard drive
This is a positive mark for data portability. As you know, I’m moving away from Twitter and onto Friendfeed. Problem with a move like this is connecting up with people on the new service. Looking for all 280+ of my twitter friends on Friendfeed would be time consuming, monotonous work. But there’s a much easier way.
It had to be said, point blank. No more complaining. No more threatening to leave. No more “woe is me, I miss twitter” sobbing. Twitter Is Not A Reliable Enough Service To Build A Network Around. I would think that the dream of any social network or web service provider would be to have it’s users adopt it
Tech news aggregator, Techmeme, finally added a search feature earlier today. More on the new search feature from the Techmeme blog: “Techmeme Search returns items that have appeared as full headlines on Techmeme, in reverse chronological order. Headlines appearing only in “Discussion” are excluded. This way, Techmeme Search aims to surface only the most notable
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