As a podcaster, I’m always looking for ways to enhance the experience for my listeners. The community not only wants to consume the content I produce, but many feel the need to contribute their thoughts and feedback. With the evolution of FriendFeed as the one stop shop for discussion surrounding the social web, [...]

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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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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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Today, Google announced a cool new feature to Google Reader: The ability to share an item with a note. I could see this being useful for me and my podcast as Google Reader shared items is my primary source for collecting links to podcast about. Now I can do this outside of [...]

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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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Video blogging has been atop of my interests lately and while I haven’t found my video micro-blogging solution yet, I am experimenting with various video commenting solutions for my Wordpress blog. I installed Viddler’s wordpress plugin which allows video comments. It was easy to install and worked like a charm.

Today, Seesmic has announced [...]

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Hey guys, what’s the best solution for video micro-blogging? I document my quest here, but I’m interested in your thoughts.

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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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I really don’t have reasons not to like it. It’s in the same category as Seesmic in terms of “video microblogging” from my point of view. I don’t really care about the 90 second limit on the video to be honest. I agree with Gruber in that Twitter is limited to 140 [...]

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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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