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FriendFeed has added native support for microblogging platforms Plurk and Identi.ca, bringing the two services into the FriendFeed stream.
Previously, users could import messages from both services via RSS feed and marked […]

One of the key features of FriendFeed I love is the focus on sharing great content, no matter where it comes from. Where as Twitter was a great networking tool for meeting new people, FriendFeed has become a networking tool for content, and its system of liking content highlights the best of it. It may […]

Spanish microblogging service YouAre has moved into private beta after a year in development.
A lot has happened in the microblogging space in the last twelve months, but Blogs Media, the company behind YouAre has maintained a steady as she goes, get it right development approach. The private beta is planned to last anywhere between […]

One of the challenges facing blogs today in the sea of noise is the balancing act between quality and quantity. It’s actually easy to pump out posts and drive up traffic, but do many posts offer a depth of quality that delivers engaged readers, or simply higher, drive-by page views?
It’s an issue I’ve been grappling […]

New browser based script Cleaner FriendFeed from AJ Batic offers (as the name suggests) a cleaner version of FriendFeed.
The script is offered via a Greasemonkey script or via Stylish, a Firefox plugin that is dedicated to tweaking layouts on a screen.
The official list of benefits:
* Cleaner and cool look and feel
* Different font style
* […]

Posty is an Adobe AIR application that supports interaction with Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Friendfeed.
Posty delivers content for each via a separate tab for each service. Customization features are basic, allowing users to change the color of fonts, but nothing else. Posty users can post to one, all, or a combination of each service […]

Social RSS aggregator service Genwi will relaunch Tuesday with a range of new features. My walkthrough of the new service above.
At its core, Genwi is a RSS Reader. Users subscribe to feeds, creating a personal “wire.” Feeds can be added manually, or Genwi offers a range of suggested feeds that can be browsed by category, […]

FriendFeed has announced the launch of FriendFeed for iPhone, an iPhone specific interface for the growingly popular social aggregator.
To date, FriendFeed hasn’t offered a dedicated mobile service, however FriendFeed To Go (FFToGo), an API based third party site has done a decent job of providing mobile access. The biggest differences between FFToGo and FF for […]

Louis Gray wrote earlier today about Noise River, a new service that taps into the FriendFeed API to deliver intuitive filtered content, along with some other extras.
To use, FriendFeed users sign in with their FriendFeed user name and FF key. NoiseRiver then asks uses to rate their likes or dislikes based around keywords and user […]

Bitchmeming about Techmeme has long been a favorite past-time of bored early adopters over numerous weekends in the last year. The arguments are usually similar, and revolve around variations of Techmeme is to focused on reporting news from large companies and/ or ignores small startups, and that it is dominated by a few sites while […]

I first wrote about Feedalizr back in May when I suggested that established players Twhirl and Alert Thingy had some serious competition in the FriendFeed desktop app space. Development of Feedalizr hasn’t stopped, and thanks to the folks at Feedalizr I’ve got my hands on the pre-release of the next version, 1.1.4.
The new changes
- Individual […]

The code for mobile service FriendFeed To Go (FF To Go) has been released under the MIT License.
FFToGo, for those not familiar with the service, acts as a mobile client for FriendFeed, were as currently FriendFeed itself does not offer its own mobile service. FFToGo was designed by Benjamin Golub, who some readers would know […]

This special post comes to us from new occasional contributor Fake Steve Gillmor
As the space program tries to recapture the spirit of the 60’s by digging for Martians, a tiny speck messages earth through the psychedelic goodness of the Twitter. I recall during one Star Trek episode shown in repeat in 1973 that the line […]