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I guess I should finally get around to putting something here. I am surprised that it has received so much attention recently. This video was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed secondIt is based on the Argentinian Political Advertisement "The Truth" by RECREARThanks to joezandstra for posting it as a video r (Read More)
PR 2.0
I recently discussed the viability of Twitter evolving beyond a micro community into a standardized platform for macro conversations. It's certainly the path Facebook is traversing and both are making significant progress in the race to syndicate and aggregate the discussions that are important to us within our respective s (Read More)
: @thomaspower agreed! Although as @kadesoto has said before now we need to be able to focus the feed better, otherwise it is still a river of information even if is has been selected and approved by our smartest 1000 friends.
Perhaps a feature where I can see something which you, @scobleizer and @louisgray liked, that way I get the good articles from the Blogosphere and all Louis' baby photos. ;)
: With all do respect to Brian, this conversation has been hashed out well over 6 months ago. Unfortunately, FriendFeed hasn't capitalized on the initial wave like I thought it would...
ReadWriteWeb
The social Web has given users great power: the ability to create and share content with people around the world - easily and quickly. The problem of course, is that power is often not compatible with effective and clear thinking. The thought that germinated in an instant can be immortalized in perpetuity on the Web.With (Read More)
Louis Gray - FriendFeed
Everyone knows that plagiarism is bad and even illegal. However, some people tend to think it’s more acceptable if the stolen content comes from an online resource such as a blog or social network. It’s a disturbing attitude that continues to spread as increasing numbers are helping themselves to other people’s work. Don’t (Read More)
Portals and KM
Dan Schawbel wrote an excellent post on Mashable on the Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For. I have reviewed one of them on the AppGap – see Radian6 – Monitoring Social Media. You can find Dan’s view of Radian6 and 9 others through the above post. I list the complete ten below in this cross-post from AppGap wi (Read More)
Ning Blog
Women from all over the world come together on Women for a Change. With more than 1 billion women living in extreme poverty, members are breaking through cultural barriers to take a stand. Major projects in 2009 include Women Talk Magazine, the Women for Change Resource Center and new WFAC fundraising. (Read More)
louisgray.com
Uber-blogger Robert Scoble came under criticism in late December when TechCrunch's Michael Arrington said he had neglected his blog, in factor of spending time on FriendFeed and Twitter. Arrington said It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention, saying he was contributing to the popularity of those services but getting nothing (Read More)
Google Operating System
CNet found from Gmail's Product Manager Todd Jackson some of the Gmail features that will be released in the next months, but hopefully the best new things are still a secret.The video chat plug-in for Gmail will show higher-quality videos and this is one of the reasons why Google chose not to use Flash. "Jackson says the p (Read More)
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from mixx:
FriendDeck here: http://frienddeck.com/ and FriendFeed room here: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/frienddeck. (Read More)
: An AIR version would make more sense than a web based one. Still trying to decide if it adds something to the FF experience or not. Not sure what are the best searches to add. How is everybody using it now? What searches do you use that give you the best experience?
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Google's Chrome browser is fast becoming the geeks' choice, as users all over the world tinker with it and explore its deeper capabilities. Not lacking essential functionality, Chrome is now proving that it can do everything: from starting in Incognito mode by default for better browsing safety to reverting to using a singl (Read More)
: If Chrome had extensions, it would become my default browser. There are too many extensions I cannot live without now. (LastPass, Foxmarks, Fastdial to name the majors I use the most.)
TwitLinks
As part of its Open Strategy, Yahoo starting today is letting users add updates from their friends based on their activities on 20 other services across the Web.These updates will appear in a FriendFeed-like fashion on Yahoo members’ profile pages and in Yahoo Mail. Already, Yahoo users can get updates from friends who use (Read More)
: Friendfeed, SocialMedian, Twitter and in that order are becoming the new Power on the Internet and everyone is trying to copy them rather than acquire them - FF+SM+TW = Power and Influence PI
ReadWriteWeb
Given the constantly growing number of micro-blogging, photo sharing, and video hosting sites, it is getting harder and harder to keep all these accounts updated. One of our favorite application to post media files to a variety of services is Pixelpipe. Pixelpipe takes care of the distribution of your files, so that you can (Read More)