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We're currently working on enabling socialmedian users to easily and automatically add your own content to socialmedian. The first sites we will be working on are: (1) connect your blog feed to socialmedian, (2) Google Reader shared items, (3) Digg submissions and Digg's, (4) Tweets, (5) Delicious. For each of these, we (Read More)
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: On connecting twitter, our idea is to enable users to either (a) have all of their tweets shared with their socialmedian page, (b) have only tweets that match certain keywords (e.g. I could say only tweets that contain the word "news"), or (c) any tweet to #socialmedian. What think you?
: @tabrez I also really like the idea of our finding a way to make our bug tracking system public. Prob makes most sense to do that when we make API available.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
It all makes sense when you learn that Twitter's CEO and co-founder, Jack Dorsey spent 15 years writing dispatch software for couriers, taxis and 911.Jack's concept of "ambient social awareness" is derived from the crackling sounds of voices, coming from two-way radios, saying what patient is going to which hospital, or whi (Read More)
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Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Free socialmedian T-shirt to any socialmedian user who correctly guesses either Obama's or McCain's running mate selection before it is announced. You can only guess once for each and should do so by leaving a comment here. (Read More)
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: Congrats to Tinch72, Rickbenavidez, & Brianhorn on correctly guessing Biden as Obama's VP selection! For correctly guessing you have all won Socialmedian t-shirts. I'll be in touch shortly to get them out to you.
Shacknews Games
Do not be alarmed, but according to The Christian Post, there are terrorists in your house right now."You may be surprised at how many 'terrorists' there are in your home right now. Video games, computers, cell phones, teen magazines, music, TV, & movies: all of which fall under the umbrella of entertainment and all are lik (Read More)
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Kotaku
Want to go to Akihabara and bask in the glory of millions of tons of video games, capsule toys, manga and electronics? Probably not if you're paying for the plane ticket over there. Fortunately, with the awesome power of Google Maps and Street View, you can scoot around Akiba virtually, checking out all the good game shops (Read More)
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Submitted by The Puck:
Social networks come and go, but Twitter has staying power. Even though it has frequent technical problems, Twitter is a vibrant community which has become an important network for business intelligence, news, and camaraderie for me and the tweeters I follow and who follow me. (Read More)
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Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
A number of users have submitted requests for socialmedian to have a "block" function so that users can blog another user from following them. Question: Is this really needed? What's the harm in someone being able to follow what stories you clip? . (Read More)
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: We are soon going to enable private news networks and private discussions. But, before that, is there a real reason you would not want someone else to be able to follow you? Please help me/us understand.
: Until I read David's comment, I was going to say that was idiotic especially if the site is open to search engines. But I see he does have a valid point.
ReadWriteWeb
...And Continues To Be Awesome!If you're a Firefox and Google Reader user and you haven't yet installed the Feedly plugin, you're going to want to install it today after you hear this: Feedly has now integrated its own results - that is, links to the relevant posts from your Google Reader - right into your Google search res (Read More)
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: Feedly is a service and a Firefox plugin that provides an alternative way to read your feeds. Its magazine-style interface presents the news to you in a more visually appealing way while still keeping it categorized by your own tagging system. As your read news items in Feedly, they're marked as read in Google Reader
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I used Yahoo! Pipes to create a tool to monitor multiple social networks for specific keywords or phrases. More networks are being added all the time to make this a comprehensive solution for social media monitoring for yourself or clients. (Read More)
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Kotaku
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus guy Fumito Ueda is hard at work on a PS3 title. Oh yes, but what's going on with that? Sony's Shuhei Yoshida explains: They are working on a title. I started the ICO project. Ueda-san joined my team in Japan as a cinematic animator, but he created a short movie and presented it to me and said (Read More)
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