I’ve been playing with the new friendfeed beta for a few days now and I thought it might be useful to share some of what I’ve learned. One of the best new features are the search filters. These filters allow you to effectively create channels on any topic of interest. Below is a walk through [...]
This is an article I wrote back in 2007 and didn’t publish at the time. I feel its more relevant today than ever.
11/13/2007
Having spent the best part of my weekend moving my music, photos and video from my old PC to my new mac, I came to the conclusion that my generation (I’m 36) is [...]
Yesterday techcrunch broke some news which I found interesting, in respect of twitters long term business strategy. Apparently twitter began issuing warning notices to members who are utilising the autofollow function within their account settings. (Link)
The reasoning it appears has to to with the usability of their system as a whole. They go on to [...]
It looks as though twitter may be starting to restrict access to followers information. In the past this has been an area of the site open to some abuse. Working on the follow them and they might follow you assumption, some members have been mining the seam of leading members.
Up until recently its been possible [...]
One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we’ve been adding bunches of new sharing features over the last year including choosing friends to share with, sharing with note and the sharing bookmarklet. But [...]
Could twitter become the new king of search? It seems as each day of 2009 goes by, my use of twitter is increasing. Not only in terms of tweets, but in alternate uses for the service. Most recently its Twitter Search that’s got my attention. Although twitter does its best it seems to avoid you [...]
What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any [...]
Google’s latest foray into social networking is a toolbar it is introducing today, that shows users’ social information on other web sites. It’s designed to help web site publishers and users make better use of Google Friend Connect, a service that already lets developers add social features to web pages.
The toolbar includes buttons that, when [...]
Updated at 8:23 PM with statement from TwitterHawk creator. See end of post.
I just got a pointer to TwitterHawk, a clever bot that will monitor Twitter posts for key words and send automated and pre-programmed @ replies to them when those words pop up.
The service actually looks for more than just words. It can also [...]
Looking for an easy way to stalk your friends? Google has the answer with its new Latitude service for mobile devices. Google Latitude broadcasts your location from your mobile phone, letting your friends know where you are and allowing you to keep tabs on them.
Latitude shares your current location with your friends by using [...]
