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Good Stat Summary of Twitter’s Competitiors

September 15th

This weekend Twitter has been more reliable than Identi.ca. Steve Gillmor ‘dented a threat about returning to Twitter. And Dave Winer tweeted that he was thinking of mirroring his tweets to Identi.ca.
During the conventions, and up to and including this weekend, Identi.ca has found out what Twitter already knows: the Jabber chat protocol “firehose” can [...]

Advanced FriendFeed Tip: The Imaginary Friend

July 20th

As it turns out that people use the ‘imaginary friend’ feature in different ways. Here is what we know about imaginary friends on FriendFeed.

Toluu Refines UI; Adds Features

June 30th

Last week, Toluu rolled out some big features. Today, we are seeing a couple of more subtle but no less welcome improvements to our favorite feed subscription-matching service.

Instant Social Media – Just Add People

June 26th

You may ask yourself, this sounds like a grind, what’s the point? Why should I keep doing this on one service after another? And the answer is: There is no good reason to do it.

ReadBurner Feeds the NewsGator

June 24th

ReadBurner unveils support for sharing articles with the NewsGator family of products, and super-fancy site enhancements!

RSSmeme Learns to Speak Social Bookmarking

June 23rd

Utilizing the friendfeed API and his brand of Django programming wizardry, Benjamin Golub has taught his shared-story app to leverage even more services to get a better buzz count on current articles. Essentially, RSSmeme will now look at all the social bookmarking services that friendfeed supports and allow those shares to contribute to an article’s popularity!

Quick News from Around the Net

June 17th

News on Swurl, Feedly, Disqus trackbacks, Louis Gray and Firefox 3

Maybe I Will Stick With My Day Job

June 16th

I have to admit that this past week, with its focus on the seedy underbelly of the shiny blog beast, has rather tempered my enthusiasm to dive into the blogging business full-time.

My ISP is a DNS Sellout!

June 13th

This has been brought up in the past, but recently I’ve noticed that my Internet Service Provider, Road Runner from Time Warner Cable, has decided that when I typo on the location bar, it’s perfectly acceptable to send me to a not-so-helpful search result page.

RSSmeme Leverages the FriendFeed API

June 13th

I just caught a post by Benjamin Golub, the developer of RSSmeme, in which he reveals some upcoming changes to his popular service:
RSSmeme is about to be faster than ever at finding the hot news of the day. Everyone knows that FriendFeed is fast; and I’m not talking about the speed at which the site [...]

Social Media from an Unexpected Place: Microsoft!

June 2nd

Microsoft unrolls MSDN and TechNet Social Bookmark previews, plus updates to Sysinternals apps.

Project RSS Reset Gets Underway

June 1st

I already have news about the little RSS reset project that I kicked off earlier today!
Corvida
Corvida has made her move over at ReadWriteWeb.  Hopefully we will get some more enterprising souls to give the project a go.
Caleb
Caleb Elston, the creator of Toluu, has been a strong supporter of this move.  He has decided to join [...]

WinExtra’s New Sunday Blog Review: First Up, scribkin!

June 1st

It was with complete surprise that I learned tonight that this blog was chosen to be the very first on WinExtra’s new series, the Sunday Blog Review!

My Pre-Pre-Pre-Alpha FriendFeed Compatibility Index

May 30th

Earlier this week in my FriendFeed article, I mentioned an aspiring developer or and statistician named Yuvi Panda, or The StatBot. In the last couple of days, he has been playing with the FriendFeed API and has come up with an interesting stat: the FriendFeed Compatibility Index.

Notes Now Included in RSSmeme FriendFeed Feed

May 21st

As I was catching up in Google Reader this morning, I noticed this item in my RSSmeme FriendFeed feed.  I highlighted the new change — it now appends all Google Reader shared item notes!
I’m not sure when this was added, but I think it is very .. err, noteworthy!  No pun intended. 
Another bullet [...]

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