Robert Scoble - FriendFeed
The concept of an “open social network,” one that gets its news feed not from within its own walls, but rather by aggregating lifestreams from all over the open Web, first appeared with the launch of Plaxo Pulse in August 2007. [Reminder/disclosure: I head up marketing at Plaxo. ] While Plaxo stayed heads-down focused on (Read More)
365 Gay News
(San Francisco, California) Leaders of the campaign to outlaw same-sex marriage in California made an offer to businesses that have given money to the state's largest gay-rights group: Give us money or we'll publicly identify you as opponents of traditional unions.Supporters of same-sex marriage called the tactic "an attemp (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. We will be launching the (Read More)
Mashable!
First there was Twitter. Then there came a host of other services that tried their hands at status microblogging, the most of which fell by the wayside as Twitter gained dominance. Then came FriendFeed, and some folks realized that this short style of blogging, conversing and status-updating was pretty fun. Then people r (Read More)
: It's early days yet, but I'd say Identi.ca has the potential to be a Twitter breaker if adoption is brisk and the service can beat its rival's uptime.
Submitted by Jeber:
@itravin asks - “you’ve gone from blogging to b5 to become an author now, can you do a post on blogger growing beyond blogs”. (Read More)
TechCrunch
The popularity of Google Trends, which lets users compare the relative popularity of words and phrases based on the quantity of search queries on Google over time, is starting to spawn similar services based on different data sets. Facebook now has Lexicon (launched April 15), which shows trends based on Wall posts.Twitter (Read More)
Submitted by Jeber:
"Organizers say that replacing the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 with new consumer protection rules will remove key legal protection for 'genuine' mediums.". (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Let's be honest here: we're all a bunch of social media addicts. We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don't have a lot of. So (Read More)
: This is definately a consideration when trying to budget your time online. With websites to manage, forums to moderate and blogs to write, social sites like Twitter and Friendfeed can steal time from more productive activities.