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21 May 2008

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 why [...]

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Tags: friendfeed, twit-out, twitter

Twit-out Preparation: Are you ready?

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20 May 2008

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, modify your [...]

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Tags: friendfeed, twit-out, twitter

Twit-out: The Day Without Twitter

In: geek

14 May 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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Tags: friendfeed, twit-out, twitter

My Twitter-Fu is Better Than Yours

In: geek|web2.0

26 Apr 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 reasoning, I [...]

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Tags: friendfeed, Software, twitter, Utility, web2.0

7 Ways to Improve Alert Thingy

In: web2.0

13 Apr 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 addressed. Here [...]

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Tags: adobe air, alert thingy, feedback, friendfeed, Software, Web 2.0

FriendFeed Replaces Google Reader? Maybe

In: geek

27 Mar 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 feeds and “share” the [...]

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Tags: Aggregators, friendfeed, Google Reader, Joystiq, rss, Software, Utility, Web 2.0

Quotably Needs Conversation Context

In: geek

24 Mar 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 one predicted: The [...]

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Tags: conversation, friendfeed, quotably, social aggregators, social web, socialthing, twitter, web2.0

FriendFeed and SocialThing are totally different

In: geek

15 Mar 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 FriendFeed as yet [...]