A while ago, I blogged about Quotably’s lack of conversation context. Quotably was designed to solve the problem of sparse Twitter conversations. It did its best to generate a threaded view of the twitter conversation. As I stated before, it failed in many cases and added frustration to a seemingly unfixable problem. [...]

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Google Reader is green with envy.
Well, at least in my house it is. Why? I’ve been using FriendFeed as my primary source of news and information for the past two weeks. Google Reader used to dominate my information consumption until I found FriendFeed. I would scour my list of RSS [...]

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This is a response/feedback to Chris Pirillo’s blog post surrounding a huge idea surrounding web communities. Please read his blog post in its entirety prior to reading this one so you will understand the context. Enjoy.

Let me just say, I applaud this effort and believe you are on to something here. Here [...]

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Yesterday, a new service launched which aims to solve a “problem” with Twitter. If you’re not familiar with Twitter, its purpose is to answer the question, “What are you doing?”, so it’s easy to wonder why you would even expect a response. At any rate, Twitter has evolved into something that no [...]

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There has been a firestorm in the blogosphere regarding the recent hype surrounding Friendfeed. Lot’s of so-called “prominent” bloggers have went on record approving or disproving the service.

A relatively unknown blogger (at least to me), Louis Gray, shed some light on the service for me personally. At first glance, I dismissed [...]

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Youtube recently announced details of their video API (Application Programmer Interface), allowing developers to create their own concoctions powered by Youtube technology. The wildly anticipated game, Spore, is already on board to use the API in their game to send videos of the game straight to Youtube:

Youtube is a massive entity, one of the [...]

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I guess I was wrong. We’ll have something to play with today.

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Today, Apple plans to announce the roadmap for third party development of iPhone applications. This is done through a Software Development Kit or SDK. One thing I would recommend is to set your expectations a bit low. Although Steve Jobs promised a SDK in February, there is no indication that there will [...]

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BlogTalkRadio caught my blog post on privacy issues with their very simple podcasting API, Cinch. They’ve released an updated version of the service today which allows users to create a custom rss url. Outstanding!!

I’ve went ahead and created my own Cinch feed at cinch.blogtalkradio.com/bwana . Here’s a test sample mp3 of my test run on [...]

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