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No one likes losing control.

Hence the backlash to Google’s new Sidewiki product. Sidewiki is described as follows:
Google Sidewiki is a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page.

Sounds familiar? Well there are several sites out there which allow you to “annotate the web” such as Diigo. You [...]

I’ve always been a big fan of real-time information on the internet. Ever since the early days of IRC and Usenet, I would prefer IRC since the entire experience was live and real-time. Usenet and forums had the delay factor.

Yesterday, I read about the decision Wordpress made to support RSS Cloud. What [...]

The usefulness of Twitter trending topics has declined for me personally. All too often, I see people trying to “game” or “manipulate” the system to gain popularity. To me, the whole thing is null and void if it is contrived. Now that Twitter has brought these terms to the forefront, it seems [...]

Microsoft and Federated Media have partnered to create an interesting mashup called BingTweets. This site is in beta and offers a hands free experience on the latest trending topics on the web. After seeing this, I have a bit more respect for the efforts Microsoft is putting behind Bing and can only wonder [...]

Today, I found yet another reason why I prefer discussing tech topics on FriendFeed over another popular social site, Twitter.

It boggles the mind.
I use social networks to share what I like. Sometimes people like what they see or hear and they decide to keep up with me. I post news links, blog posts, video posts, podcast posts, general thoughts, rambles, LOL cats, tech deals, and even the newest shiny social network tool. [...]

Robert Scoble shared his desktop screens to give us a glimpse of how he consumes much of the information out there. It’s kind of scary:

Do you think you could follow that? A lot of people see that and are intimidated. I believe this is going to be obstacle that the “real-time web” [...]

This week, I’m the guest host on the brand new podcast from the Techpodcast network called TPN Weekly. If you’re into podcasts, you really should subscribe to our show over there. We’ll be sampling new hosts every week so you can get a new flavor. I think it’s an awesome idea because [...]


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