Posts Tagged ‘ friendfeed ’
Comments - Posted 07.11.08
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 [...]
Comments - Posted 07.07.08
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, [...]
Comments - Posted 06.30.08
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 [...]
Comments - Posted 06.28.08
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 [...]
Comments - Posted 06.28.08
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 [...]
continueComments - Posted 06.27.08
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 [...]
Comments - Posted 06.24.08
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 [...]
Comments - Posted 06.21.08
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 [...]
Comments - Posted 06.20.08
Now that Google has entered the Alexa space with Google Trends for Websites, the general public has some access to hidden traffic data from Google’s vaults. The service get its numbers from a combination of sources including search traffic, anonymous Google Analytics figures and other third party marketing data.
The emphasis is mine, but the Google [...]
Comments - Posted 06.16.08
New comer to the blogging 2.0 space Swurl aggregates online activity to deliver a Tumblr like experience with a unique timeline view as well.
The Swurl platform automatically brings a user’s web life together into a rich Tumblr-like format, with a focus on blogging as opposed to rss feeds. Standout features include enriched content, with bookmarked [...]
Comments - Posted 06.12.08
Kevin Rose’s Digg may be the golden child of the social sharing space, but it’s FriendFeed that is getting all the attention lately. I’ve always enjoyed Digg (and Kevin Rose is a good bloke as well which helps) but today I find FriendFeed superior for what it delivers to me, even if the traffic it [...]
continueComments - Posted 06.10.08
Twitter and FriendFeed client Twhirl has release an updated version (0.8.2) that finally tackles the applications biggest flaw: looks.
The biggest change is how Twhirl renders FriendFeed entries. Gone are the days of Twhirl generating hard to read text and difficult to follow threads, replaced instead by a cleaner look, clearer fonts (at least the headlines [...]
Comments - Posted 06.06.08
The response to yesterdays release of a range of greasemonkey scripts to add tabs to FriendFeed has been great. Not everyone gets the appeal, and I fully get that (it’s not for everyone), but others do, and already it has delivered for me personally what I set out for it to do: make certain pages [...]
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