Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
What's that? socialmedian is now on FriendFeed? Yes...sort of. We have now RSS-enabled the "Me" tab on your homepage, which provides a feed of all your socialmedian activities (postings, clippings, comments). This feed formats nicely for FriendFeed or any blog roll widgets. To add your socialmedian feed on FriendFeed: (Read More)
Submitted by Mattshaulis:
Plaxo has probably the most clouded reputation of any of the major participants in the current data portability discussion, except perhaps for Microsoft. Comcast is no angel either.Together the two companies will be ill prepared to serve end users well. (Read More)
louisgray.com
Near the end of 2007, I first came across a service I had hoped would one day challenge Google Reader for the throne of coolest RSS feed reader, Assetbar. With social aspects including shared statistics and comments, it had the potential to become the future of where RSS feed readers were going. While that hasn't yet come t (Read More)
CNET News.com
Online media execs consider blogs, podcasts, and sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter the "wild card" in this fall's presidential election. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
One of the buzz phrases we've heard a lot this year is "data portability", which means the ability to move your personal data between different applications and vendors. It has its own standards group, called naturally enough DataPortability.org. Some of the big Internet companies have signaled their support for data portab (Read More)
louisgray.com
Most bloggers who have spent a good amount of time building their site and community end up with a small group of peers who share the same interests, discuss the same topics, and more often than not, frequently link to one another's blogs, or feature links to friends' sites in their blog roll. This cliquish behavior can res (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Later tonight Google will launch a new service called Friend Connect, aiming to "bring the social" to any page around the web. Unfortunately the service takes a bunch of open technical standards yearning to see the light of day through mass adoption and puts them in a dark little box where they will struggle to breathe. G (Read More)