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Cleaner FriendFeed offers a cleaner FriendFeed

Cleaner FriendFeed offers a cleaner FriendFeed

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 ... continue
Posty: All-in-one AIR App for Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Friendfeed

Posty: All-in-one AIR App for Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Friendfeed

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 ... continue

First look at the new version of Genwi: Social RSS

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 ... continue
FriendFeed Launches iPhone Interface

FriendFeed Launches iPhone Interface

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 ... continue
Prediction: FriendFeed Will Acquire NoiseRiver

Prediction: FriendFeed Will Acquire NoiseRiver

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 ... continue
Techmeme and the Noise Problem

Techmeme and the Noise Problem

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 ... continue
First Look at Feedalizr 1.1.4

First Look at Feedalizr 1.1.4

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 ... continue
FFToGo Code Open Sourced

FFToGo Code Open Sourced

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 ... continue
Why Twitter Is Better Than FriendFeed

Why Twitter Is Better Than FriendFeed

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 ... continue
Interesting Things Learned From Google Trends

Interesting Things Learned From Google Trends

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 ... continue
Swurl Is Content Aggregation Meets Tumblr

Swurl Is Content Aggregation Meets Tumblr

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 ... continue
Five Reasons FriendFeed Is Better Than Digg

Five Reasons FriendFeed Is Better Than Digg

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 ... continue
Twhirl Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint

Twhirl Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint

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 ... continue
FriendFeed Greasemonkey Scripts Round Two. Smaller Tabs, More Choices

FriendFeed Greasemonkey Scripts Round Two. Smaller Tabs, More Choices

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 ... continue
FriendFeed Adds Personal Recommendations

FriendFeed Adds Personal Recommendations

FriendFeed has rolled out a new personal recommendations feature that allows users to view the best content from their friends. The new feature is located underneath the search box on the FriendFeed homepage and offers links to see ... continue
Turn FriendFeed Into Your Start Page With These Greasemonkey Scripts

Turn FriendFeed Into Your Start Page With These Greasemonkey Scripts

When I wrote my FriendFeed wishlist May 29 my number one wish was for FriendFeed to support custom tabs. This isn't happening yet, and even if it did it would likely be for content currently supported by ... continue
Switching To Blogging 2.0

Switching To Blogging 2.0

The business of blogging is changing. A movement that arguably spawned social media and widespread user generated content is no longer ignoring the web 2.0 changes that have followed its rise. Open and sharing have replaced closed ... continue
The Race To Social Network 2.0

The Race To Social Network 2.0

October 2009: Matthew logs onto his social aggregation service. In front of him appears everything his friends have been doing across every different social networking service. He decides that he needs to write a few blog posts, ... continue
My FriendFeed Wishlist

My FriendFeed Wishlist

If you've missed the phenomena, FriendFeed is taking the first adopter world by storm. I wasn't initially convinced, but after asking Louis Gray to convince me, I gave it another shot, and now I'm completely hooked. I've touched ... continue

Considering Shyftr

There's been a lot of talk around the way Shyftr deals with full feeds, so I thought I might add my two cents worth via video. Note towards the middle when I'm referring to monetizing feeds from ... continue
Protagonize Is A Good Read, Help Write “FriendFeed Fan”

Protagonize Is A Good Read, Help Write “FriendFeed Fan”

Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. Stories on Protagonize start with one author writing a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The ... continue
Blogging 2.0 and Advertising

Blogging 2.0 and Advertising

One of the most common arguments against Blogging 2.0 is that it threatens advertising revenue by diluting a blog as the ultimate point of conversation around a topic. Blogging 2.0 brings new challenges and distribution models, but does ... continue