That’s right, somewhere, out in the vastness of the MySpace network, is someone exactly like me. I feel like I’ve lapped myself.
Category Archives: Social Networks
Twitter Ends Friendship
In a move that should rock the ‘social network space’, Twitter just removed the vague, confusing, juvenile label of ‘friend‘, replacing it with the more descriptive ‘following‘ 1. Aside from the label being more accurate 2 it creates a nice symmetry with ‘followers‘. You and I could say ‘friend‘ is the overlap between the two, …
Looking for an app that tracks un/friend…
Looking for an app that tracks un/friending like buy/sell stock market gestures. I think Eric Rice mentioned this idea a while back. I’ll query his blog in the morning.
Chatter – Friendly Tumble Blogging
“Garrick knocks Pownce … what will he think of Chatter?” – Bruno Bornsztein Finally, a web app that knows how to handle a new account – Bruno sends me an invite via email. I click the link. Chatter asks me my name – then emails me a password. That’s it. Beautiful. If you’re building or …
Pownce.com – In Need of a Special Purpose
Pownce.com feels like the bastard child of Basecamp and MySpace. Four kinds of things (messages, links, files, events) all going into the same bucket. No tagging or grouping or other categorization – aside from the information type, all sent out to everyone as email notifications not including the message. Just a link back to the …
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Twittergrams: Guarding the Rhino
(photo CNN) In Swahili the tick bird is named ‘askari wa kifaru,’ meaning ‘the rhino’s guard.’ The bird eats ticks it finds on the rhino and noisily warns of danger. Although the birds also eat blood from sores on the rhino’s skin and thus obstruct healing, they are still tolerated. Take a look at what …
I’m hesitant to build too much on top of…
I’m hesitant to build too much on top of Twitter. Not just because of their historic instability, but because they’re a single silo – and each day brings a yet another silo. With Ququoo.com, I’m relying on Twitter for registration. With the Twittergram work I’m doing, it’s that and a little bit more. Unlike Facebook, …
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Hictu.com Has Audio & Video Twittergrams
Looks like Hictu.com already has the Flash-based recorder Dave talked about. Like Jaiku, you can add other feeds to your profile basically aggregating and auto-posting. No, Hictu doesn’t have an API (at least obviously). Ha. Punny. Yes, the ‘micro-blogging’ space is getting as silly as the social network, ‘start page’, and to-do list manager spaces. …