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Hot new RSS reader LazyFeed just announced that it intends to implement support for RSSCloud, the real-time element in RSS that WordPress turned on for millions of blogs today. Perhaps already more hip to the real time web than any other RSS aggregator on the market, LazyFeed is a very logical place to see RSSCloud in acti (Read More)
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This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest, most cutting edge Web trends to come out of 2009. We're posting one trend analysis per day. Then at the end of the week we'll publish a major update to our standard presentation about web technology trends. Our opening post was about Structured D (Read More)
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All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is curretnly only one RSS aggregator that supports RSSCloud, Dave Winer's brand new reader River2. That will probably change very soon (Read More)
The difference is, instead of the typical feed reader that checks for updates every few hours, this one checks for updates in real time. In other words, every few seconds.
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WordPress makes blogging simple. Posterous makes blogging easy. In my eyes, simple and easy are different. WordPress is great for many things. For example, I don’t see TechCrunch (Disclosure: I am an employee of TechCrunch) using Posterous to post news online. But I do see people using Posterous for those spur of the moment (Read More)
: OK, it's nice to have a chat on the phone with family members sometimes, but for business and most social communications, I prefer email too. As the writer says in the article above, you can reply when you want to; you're not obligated to stop what you're doing and answer now, like the phone.
: That's very similar to what Glue is doing as well! Glue also push out updates to many other sites like Wordpress, Facebook, MySpace, Virb, LiveJournal and More... Even Posterous itself!
: There coming so much new social media comonents to the market, its difficult to not loose the control. But social media components are very important for the most people. Its much more easy to connect them via a service like twitter or posterous, than anything else. I will have an eye on it (I hope thats correct english) Greetz from Germany Guenni
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Prior to 2001, gilded hard cover encyclopedias were cracked to fact check everything from raptor names to State capitals. Today the world's most popular English encyclopedia is more often used to identify pop culture icons and social media companies. A recent Telegraph article listed the 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles of (Read More)
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It's going to be a little like the Brady Bunch, this union between Facebook and the just-acquired social networking service FriendFeed. Both families will influence each other a lot, though Facebook is far, far bigger. (The youngest one's in curls!)FriendFeed was co-founded by Paul Buchheit, the man who invested GMail, an (Read More)
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Social something site Streamy is getting a lot of attention online this week with many predicting that it’s the next FriendFeed…in a good way. It’s not.In explaining Streamy it’s best to start with a description of the service, but actually coming up with a description was only the beginning of my confusion. It’s not helped (Read More)
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It’s not something that will likely place on Twitter’s (largely redundant and abused) trending topics feature, but we’re now starting to see what I think will increasingly become a major focal point for all serious Twitter users over the next few weeks and months – network optimisation.Robert Scoble is doing it. Chris Broga (Read More)
: This a Truism that has been evident since Twitter's inception. I do not believe any relationships.. and that is the premise i assumed can be generated with Large Impersonal Numbers
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Twitter just announced its new home page redesign complete with trending topics and search. Publicly launched at the 2006 South by South West interactive festival, users first flocked to the site as a way to communicate with friends and festival attendees. However, as we've seen in the past few years, the site has evolved i (Read More)