If you didn’t already know, 10 days ago, I got tired of trying to use Twitter only to be greeted by errors. I have a strong Software Quality Assurance background and have a small tolerance for bad software, yet I put up with Twitter for almost 2 years. I had to call it [...]

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A while ago, I wrote about my difficult decision between choosing from the commenting systems, Disqus and Intense Debate. Much has changed since that post, including Disqus’s support of video comments and now, Intense Debate’s support of FriendFeed. At this moment, the only benefit I see of using Disqus over Intense Debate is [...]

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I covered FriendFeed rooms already and I think it’s a good addition to an already successful system at FriendFeed. Yesterday, FriendFeed rolled out new features for FriendFeed rooms.

One of these features is pretty significant: Semi-public rooms. Semi-public rooms allow an administrator of a room to have control over the posts [...]

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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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Today is the Twit-Out! Thanks to all those who are participating. Over on FriendFeed, we are discussing many topics surrounding the Twit-Out. Robert Scoble suggested this Twit-Out FAQ thread for all your questions. Here’s a quick run-down of just some of the conversations:

How you think Twitter can improve their service?
Let’s talk about [...]

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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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Intense Debate aims to improve comments on your blog. I’ll make this short and sweet:

It imports all my old Wordpress comments
It allows me to easily export my comments from Intense Debate if I choose to move my data
And this:

Nuff said.
I’m going to try it out for a week or so and see [...]

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