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FriendFeed Lives On (In Spirit): Tornado 2.0 Released
When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in September 2009, my heart sank a bit. I was happy for those guys, but I knew FriendFeed would never be the same despite the talk of FriendFeed staying alive. Now,...
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Aggregation Is Invisible In Google+. Thank Goodness.
The true value of a social network is the product of the people participating and the content being shared. There's no doubt some sort of mathematical program smarter geeks can compile to show just how...
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Warning! Social Networks Are Made Out of People!
Having lived through the rise and fall of FriendFeed, the slow rise and then rapid quickening of Twitter, and the "not quite right for this world" debut and subsequent dismissal of Buzz, I practically...
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Gillmor Gang 7.23.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Andrew Keen, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — convened for yet another G+ conversation. This one, however, was noted for its evenhandedness as @ajkeen and @scobleizer...
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Google Reader Evolves, Gets Tighter With Google+
This afternoon saw the delivery of updates to Google Reader that brought the product's design in line with Google's simplified look across many properties, and added support for sharing to Google+....
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Social Networking With Strangers
There’s a well-known saying attributed to the poet and playwright William Butler Yeats: “There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.” As social networking has evolved to encompass a...
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It’s Not Social If You’re Not Engaging
What does it mean to "be social" or to participate with people online, including family, closest friends and colleagues, but strangers as well? Is sharing a link social? Is telling somebody where you...
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Facebook Strategy 101: Poach Talent, Pluck Startups
Facebook’s hunger for juicy startup morsels is somewhat insatiable, gauging its recent merger-and-acquisition activity. But when it goes in for the kill, it’s typically for one reason and one reason...
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Exclusive: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown)
Facebook’s high-profile CTO Bret Taylor is leaving the Silicon Valley social networking giant later this summer, with future plans to work on an as-yet-to-be-determined start-up. The move is likely to...
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Revolving Door: Yahoo Departures Begin, Even as Mayer’s Team Still TBD
After former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn departed Yahoo earlier this week, I noted that it was only a matter of time before more execs headed out the door with the changeover to new leader and former...
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FriendFeed Has Been Down For About 24 Hours, Is It Finally Dead? (UPDATED:...
One of the interesting things that happened when Facebook acquired the FriendFeed team is that the service lived on for a certain segment of users. Content continued to flow, and in fact, it looks like...
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FriendFeed Turns 5. The One-Time Pioneer Is Still Here.
Five years ago today, a small aggregation startup called FriendFeed opened its doors, in beta, to intrigued early adopters who wanted to bring all the updates from different services they used into one...
View ArticleVideo: How Startups Can Raise Their Visibility Seed Round
Startup success takes more than sharp vision and smart code. Early adopters of your product, along with excited press, bloggers and engaged social users spreading the word can mean the difference. In...
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You Have Your Tech Routine. But It Will End.
In 1995, as a freshman in college attending Cal, I was rapidly trading emails with my friend from UCLA in a heated conversation, hitting “Check Mail” in Eudora, eventually changing my settings to...
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Enthusiasts & Evangelists: Pushing Product, Begging for Features
There's a fine line separating an enthusiastic user from that of an evangelist, even if the two terms are often thrown out there as equals. For as excited as a user may be about consuming your product...
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Striving for Streams of Serendipity or Inbox Zero?
Nobody really likes spam - those unrequested commercial emails that join your email box. They interrupt you, distract you, mislead you, or maybe worse - trick you into giving up your money or personal...
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Facebook shutting down FriendFeed, citing declining usage
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FriendFeed’s Closure Another Painful Loss from a Vibrant Era of Social Media
Amidst all the Apple watch hoopla today, FriendFeed's blog announced the long-ignored social networking pioneer was finally going to be taken out back behind Facebook's brilliant new campus and be put...
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FriendFeed to Shut Down April 9
Facebook acquired FriendFeed in August 2009, and the latter announced in a blog post Monday that it was shuttering April 9. Facebook software engineer Benjamin Golub, who worked at FriendFeed prior to...
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A Decade of Silos Has Throttled Open Content Distribution
The 2018 Social Media Flow is Driven by Content Silos In the ten-plus years since I started this blog, one of the clearest trends on the Web has been for destination sites to want to control the user...
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