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, [...]
Twit-out Preparation: Are you ready?
May 20, 2008
Twit-out: The Day Without Twitter
May 14, 2008
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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My Twitter-Fu is Better Than Yours
April 26, 2008
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 [...]
7 Ways to Improve Alert Thingy
April 13, 2008
The Adobe AIR client, Alert Thingy, for FriendFeed launched. While it shows great potential, and is very young at version 1.0, there are areas that it can definitely improve. I’ve been using it for about an hour now and while I like it, there are some frustrating points which I believe should be [...]
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FriendFeed Replaces Google Reader? Maybe
March 27, 2008
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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Quotably Needs Conversation Context
March 24, 2008
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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FriendFeed and SocialThing are totally different
March 15, 2008
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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