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Posts Tagged ‘Software’
After 4 Months, Has Twitter Improved?
In: geek
10 Sep 2008It’s still not common knowledge among my online friends that I left Twitter on June 06, 2008. It’s been about 4 months since I did, and it seems like a lot has changed. Twitter is receiving praise for their improved “uptime” over the past months. Some have gone on record to state this could be [...]
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- Tags: Identi.ca, im, Microblogging, Software, track, twitter, Utility, web2.0
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, it only [...]
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- Tags: friendfeed, podcast, Software, Utility
Intense Debate Is the Easy Choice
12 Jun 2008A 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 its support [...]
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- Tags: blog, comments, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, intensedebate, Software, Utility, web2.0
Plurk: What’s the Big Deal?
4 Jun 2008When 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 size Twitter [...]
Google Reader Shared Notes Feature
In: web2.0
5 May 2008Today, 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 Google Reader by [...]
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- Tags: aggregation, google, notes, reader, rss, shared, Software, Utility, web2.0
My Twitter-Fu is Better Than Yours
26 Apr 2008Twitter 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
Google Sidewiki Shakes Up The Web
In: web2.0
24 Sep 2009No 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 [...]