When People feel the need to share too much
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Oversharers is a brand new web site started in January 2009 that has been silently collecting a large collection of people who share way too much on line. Given that the real time web is like watching a really bad episode of the Jerry Springer show, Oversharers is a laugh a minute comedy [...]
Yahoo 360 shutting its doors
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Yahoo 360, one of the odder attempts at social networking is closing its doors on the 13 July 2009. In an email message to people who use the service they state:
Dear Yahoo! 360° customer,
On July 13, 2009, Yahoo! 360° will be closing and your new profile on Yahoo! will become the place [...]
You have to have a life to life stream
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The new rage, stop blogging start life streaming is great if you have a life. If you don’t have a life, or you do not want to live on a public stage, then life streaming might not be right for you.
Life streaming is quickly becoming the euphemism for people who [...]
FriendFeed starts file sharing which could be problematic
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FriendFeed started file sharing yesterday which could be problematic for one of the coolest social networking services on the planet. Risking the ire of RIAA, MPAA, BRIEN, GEMM, and every other copy right protection agency in the world, has FriendFeed taken on too much risk by allowing file sharing?
Imagine the surprise when [...]
Feedburner stats now completely useless
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If you think your feedburner stats were a little odd to begin with, the addition of FriendFeed stats has completely made them irrelevant to anything you might want to do with them. Case in point, is a new blog launched June 11th 2009, that was quickly tied in everywhere, that has 439 RSS [...]
FriendFeed takes an unexpected hard stop
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For those of you who are wondering, FriendFeed has taken an unexpected hard stop to their service. Hopefully this will be short, but then you never know. In the mean time legions of FriendFeed users will continue to panic as they have to go to Twitter or Facebook to get their real time [...]
Iran elections the news and failure
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I don’t think that anyone really wanted traditional media to fail over the Iranian elections, but while all of us social networking types were living in a 24X7 constant twitter/FriendFeed stream over the weekend while we watched the elections, and monitored a potential revolution in Iran via social networking, we could not help [...]
How many of you will actually pay for content
While the newspapers are talking about people paying for content, the question I have is how many people will actually pay for that content?
With all the surveys out there that state that most people, something on the order of 60 to 80% depending on who you listen to will stop at the login page [...]
Flashmobbed the aftermath of an internet mugging Arrington and Laporte
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The outcome of the internet mugging that happened over the weekend with Leo Laporte blowing up at Mike Arrington during the Gillmore Gang has directly resulted in just one more example of how internet mobs form, and the strange if not horrifically abusive way that people can be when “incited” on the [...]
I know there is a recession on but I still want to talk to a sales person
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When you have money, and you have the authorization to spend it, and you know what you want, there are few things more frustrating than not being able to actually spend the money you want because you can not get hold of a sales person.
I am out looking for a [...]
Facebook and the Holocaust
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For worst or worst, Facebook has entered into another controversy that has ignited many well placed, and vocal people. Facebook allowed two groups to deny the holocaust on their site, and for good or bad, this has caused a firestorm of controversy for the company. The problem is that this is a symptom, [...]
FriendFeed down legions panic
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While it is not yet time to call FriendFeed a “Fail Whale” it looks like a power outage at Powerset is causing a small alteration in the social networking scene this evening. While it might not be power set’s data center power outage, it could be servers, or just about anything along the [...]
FriendFeed pulls the switcheroo puts in UI with no advanced user notice
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Nothing more interesting than being deeply involved in a conversation with people on a service, then having that service suddenly change their layout, look, feel, and going from Beta to full Production, without a word or a coordination effort. Although they did point to a blog entry after the change, like anyone reads [...]
Copyblogger on A Listers in Attack Mode
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It is an interesting premise, and not one far from thinking could happen, but what if an A list blogger decided they wanted to take someone out. Personally I think that the A Lister would have to be very careful about this one, as the loss of stature and reputation on the part [...]
MySpace Changes the end of an era or a change to transform
MySpace, what more quintessential system is there out there, one of the sites that brought a lot of attention, both good and bad to social networking. Love it or loath it, MySpace for all its good, bad and in many cases downright ugly, brought many people into social networking. MySpace also highlighted the fun and [...]
