When a new Twitter clone emerges in an already crowded space, it is easy to denounce it as just another wanna-be and classify it as a failure. No one knew Twitter would take the internet by storm, competitors such as Jaiku and Pownce are still thriving today, but they are nowhere near the [...]

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FriendFeed is great mechanism for sharing information and discussing topics around the social web. I’ve blogged about it before, and so have many others. There are many people who have successfully embedded Twitter statuses in their blog as well as other RSS information. The term “Lifestream” has been chosen to denote updates [...]

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Yesterday, FriendFeed launched a new feature called FriendFeed Rooms. Rooms allow you to create your own public or private area where you can post the same types of messages you can to FriendFeed directly. FriendFeed also introduced a “Reshare” feature which allows you to re-broadcast an existing post to your feed or to [...]

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I really can’t say I left Twitter for 24 hours because all we discussed was Twitter the entire time. It was a great experience and the atmosphere was completely positive contrary to what many thought it would be.
So, was it successful? I think so.
My goal from all this was [...]

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Tomorrow, May 21, is the Twit-out. If you’re lost read the many many posts out there regarding the subject. This post is for those who wish to participate and could use a few pointers on how to truly avoid Twitter.
Remove Twitter clients from your startup routines. Whether they be automatic, or manual, [...]

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A while ago, a guy on FriendFeed that goes by the name Shey, suggested something interesting:

What if we decided to just stop using Twitter one day, and move over to FriendFeed for our status updates, link posting, and whatever else we use Twitter for? I jokingly responded that we’d have many chances to try [...]

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I can’t decide.
I’ve used and loved Disqus in the past, but felt the data portability options were limited. I loved the data portability options of Intense Debate, but found it lacked support with FriendFeed. Recently, I went on record as to my reasons for liking Intense Debate. One of those reasons included [...]

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Today, RIM announced an update to the Blackberry series called the Blackberry Bold (or Blackberry 9000). Price has not been disclosed yet, but some of the features include:

HSDPA and EV-DO version
Wi-Fi and GPS

625MHz CPU, 1GB internal flash memory

802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 (with A2Dp), GPS, MicroSDHC

480 x 320 video recording, photo geotagging

PCMag has a first look [...]

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Twitter has become part of my daily routine here at bwana.world, and I’ve found that while there are many interesting people on it, I don’t want to know everything about them. There are plenty of people who love to use Twitter to follow everyone that follows them. While I understand some of their [...]

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Battlestar Galactica backstory in 8 minutes video here. It’s hilarious.
I posted this video on Viddler since Seesmic was down.
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