Will “Following” Give Blogger a Boost?

Google's hoping to pack more punch into its Blogger publishing platform with a soon-to-be-added ability to have FriendFeed-style "followers" on your blog. The feature will look familiar. Anyone with a Google account, it seems, can ... continue

My FriendFeed Wishlist Mark Two

Back in May, having only been on the service a short time on my second attempt, I posted a FriendFeed wishlist of things I'd like to see on the service. The FriendFeed team has continued to innovate, ... continue

Backtype: coComment 2.0?

New service Backtype offers a comment tracking service that doesn't rely on site installs or third party plugins. The simple to use service starts by asking users for some examples of sites they comment on, then cleverly ... continue

FriendFeed proposes new feed update protocol

A busy day on the FriendFeed front, with the growingly popular life streaming service adding a range of customizable widgets and proposing a new protocol for updating websites. See JR's post for details on the widget side. The ... continue

FriendFeed Unveils New Widget Offerings

FriendFeed has advanced its never-quite-publicized blog widget into full public release and has added in a few other new widgets for the grabbing at the same time. The blog widget -- now officially called the FriendFeed Feed Widget ... continue

Is Social Media Useful or just Ego-Boost?

With the rise of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn comes a rise in a market designed to "teach" companies how to leverage social media sites for business purposes. But aside from marketing initiatives, are ... continue

FriendFeed Gets Better: Friend Lists, Photo Hosting + feed sharing

FriendFeed has launched a new beta version of their lifestreaming site, with a range of useful features. Top of the list is Friends Lists, so you can group friends you want to follow. For example if I ... continue

Disqus and FriendFeed Rock Again [Good Customer Service]

As we reported earlier, Disqus released its new version today with support for local comment storage and a range of other features. Part of the upgrade was a brand new WordPress API plugin, the non javascript plugin ... continue

Lifehaps: The Social Networking Timeline

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 ... continue

FriendFeed is Google Bait + 23 Great Ways to use it

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 ... continue

Statistical analysis of words used on FriendFeed

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 ... continue

Social Median wants to be Digg for 2.0 geeks

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 ... continue