| Twitter has done something really remarkable: they have made the entire database of Tweets available to other companies. My favorite friendfeed is one of the beneficiaries of that “firehose” of data. You can watch my Tweets go from Twitter to friendfeed and back again. Oh, and friendfeed makes its firehose available to Twitter in return. [...] |
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I’ve been watching the tech bloggers quite closely for some time now. Here’s a database of more than 17,000 of my favorite posts, Tweets, and videos from them. But I’ve noticed a few things.
1. They are AWESOME at covering news. For instance, watch how TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Steve Gillmor, Louis Gray, Hutch Carpenter, and a variety [...] |
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I just changed my theme to one of the plain ones. I did that because we’re getting ready to make lots of changes. So, sorry I’ll be ugly for a while. Of course many of you are reading this in RSS so have no idea what I’m talking about. :-)
Posted in technology Tagged: Design, scobleizer [...] |
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Last Saturday on the Gillmor Gang Mike Arrington wondered aloud whether Twitter had won a “winners take all” game and whether that meant that friendfeed was toast. He then wrote a blog post titled “FriendFeed is in danger of becoming the coolest app no one uses.”
If Arrington is right, then Friendster would have kept MySpace [...] |
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Instead of cleaning up their industry and getting rid of all the people who send me bad pitches, the industry has gone on attack. Shel Holtz has one of the kinder versions of this attack.
This is why I got out of the news business and why I don’t care anymore about getting on Digg or [...] |
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Here’s some tips I’ve learned after using the new friendfeed for a while:
1. Turn it off. There’s no way to be productive doing something else while the stream is moving and distracting you. Two ways to turn it off: 1. close the browser. That’s brute force method. 2. Push the “pause button” at the top [...] |
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For the past 12 hours I’ve had friendfeed running, along with another secret tool that’s coming in May that shows me news updating in real time, and another screen is running Tweetdeck here.
This is powerful stuff, I can talk with the world and see reactions coming in live. We’ve turned the Web from something that [...] |
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| I have decided to move Google Analyticator and Podcasting to my new company, Spiral Web Consulting. We have created a new plugin site and set up a forum to help with support requests.
The long awaited release of Podcasting 2.0 has arrived! In this release, we have done the following:
Podcasting is now supported by Spiral Web [...] |
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| I have some great news I want to announce! As of today, Spiral Web Consulting is fully open for business.
For those of you who have worked with me, you know that I have been doing freelance development for over three years now. Spiral Web Consulting was made in an effort to consolidate the work that [...] |
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| I know many of you have been eagerly awaiting new, improved versions of both Podcasting and Google Analyticator. My goal of overhauling both plugins is an ambitious one, and I promise will be completely worth the wait. While neither update is ready yet, I’m happy to announce tracking the progress of both plugins will be [...] |
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Geesh, everyone got their panties in a bunch over the weekend due to Facebook’s new terms of service.
Truth is it doesn’t matter.
If you are uploading your content to, and participating online with, you are giving a HUGE amount of ownership to services that, well, you really don’t control.
They can go out of business. They can [...] |
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Just now Adobe announced lots of mobile phone news. More on that in a second. But what wasn’t announced?
No iPhone support for Flash yet.
What else was announced? FlashPlayer 10 will ship on the Palm Pre. I was briefed on the rest of this stuff last week and they were holding out on this news.
Now THAT [...] |
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