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Apple Planning Some Super Secret Social App?
Again, this is nothing but a very vague rumor for the time being, but it’s also very interesting. Following up on its iTunes 9 rumors, Boy Genius Report claims to have new details from the same trusted source…
August 11 2009, 10:45am | Comments
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Oh, FriendFeed is now Facebook’s “official” R&D department!
When I heard the news I was walking through San Antonio’s Hard Rock Cafe looking at Kurt Cobain’s high school photograph. Wow. FriendFeed was purchased by Facebook. I quickly wrote a DM to Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor,…
August 10 2009, 9:37pm | Comments
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People Are Using Google Reader “Likes,” But Some Hate It. And It’s Flawed.
As we expected, the new “like” functionality in Google Reader seems like it’s seeing some good usage. Certainly, given that “likes” are fully public, we’re seeing much more social activity on feed items than previously with Google Reader’s…
July 21 2009, 1:11am | Comments
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Facebook? Up 10%. Twitter? Up 16%. FriendFeed? Flat
I’m largely seen as FriendFeed’s #1 cheerleader and customer #1. But it isn’t catching on. Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, and I have been having an interesting debate. He even wrote up his thesis: that FriendFeed should just become…
July 10 2009, 3:00am | Comments
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Twitter Makes Hashtags More #Useful
You may have noticed that Twitter has started hyperlinking hashtags. Those are words preceded by a “#” which denote what the Tweet is about and makes it easier to search for Tweets about specific topics and events. For…
July 2 2009, 9:14pm | Comments
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Twine Is Taking Off, Now Bigger Than FriendFeed
It turns out that people are following more than just their friends online. Look at the comScore chart above comparing unique visitors in the U.S. to FriendFeed versus Twine. Yeah, I was shocked to see that Twine has…
May 22 2009, 7:38pm | Comments
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Mike Arrington and I disagree on the future
Last Saturday on the Gillmor Gang Mike Arrington wondered aloud whether Twitter had won a “winners take all” game and whether that meant that friendfeed was toast. He then wrote a blog post titled “FriendFeed is in danger…
April 10 2009, 5:21pm | Comments
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What I hate about real-time web (your productivity goes to hell)
For the past 12 hours I’ve had friendfeed running, along with another secret tool that’s coming in May that shows me news updating in real time, and another screen is running Tweetdeck here. This is powerful stuff, I…
April 6 2009, 3:12pm | Comments
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New FriendFeed: Simpler, Faster, Better (Maybe Too Fast)
FriendFeed cofounder Paul Bucheit was recently asked what it was like to be the R&D department for Facebook. His response was appropriately humble, but you can’t help but wonder how long it will be before Facebook, Twitter and…
April 6 2009, 3:00pm | Comments
