A new startup is trying to take social networking up a notch by providing a graphical timeline of your life.
Lifehaps gives you the ability to plot out all your life’s events — ranging from your birth to that concert you’re seeing next month — and then share the data with friends. It’s kind of […]

Social aggregator and sharing platform FriendFeed is rocking the first adopter community and is continuing to grow. The debate is still on as to whether it will translate to the mainstream, but all indicators have it heading in that direction.
FriendFeed compiles information from different sites into the one stream, and allows you to share what […]

For some weekend fun, Yuvi at StatBot has created a statistical analysis of leading FriendFeed users, including yours truly. My chart below: I apparently say People! Like! Content! FF! Twitter! Techmeme! Louis! a lot. All the charts here.

New FriendFeed mates with Digg and has a rabid child service Social Median has launched with a pitch straight at dyslexic, attention starved 2.0 types and people who want more meat than Digg provides.
OK, so the introduction was a little harsh, but so is the mix of everything Social Median is trying to be. […]

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 as a blog, where as now both services are clearly defined, allowing users to hide feeds from both, should they so desire, without the […]

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 […]