Social Media
Custom Book Jackets Drive Awareness
From the folks that brought you the Day in the Life and America 24/7 photo books, comes their latest project which takes a peek inside homes across America. As they have done in the past, they are offering custom book jackets and they have a cool little app where you can upload a photo and […]
Social Media Behavioral Vectors
I’ve run into a few articles by Sarah from sarahintampa.com on ReadWriteWeb.com and have seen her referenced a few times so I went to check out her site and grabbed this graphic from a post about Create Debate.
Don’t have time to check out the service she’s talking about but I love the infographic which is […]
Raw vs. Polished
Eric Berlin writes about the differences between Friendfeed and TechMeme.
Therefore, perhaps we can say that Techmeme aggregates what’s important about tech and Internet news and easily provides links to surrounding conversations. It’s really a new kind of online newspaper, and a pretty terrific one. And Friendfeed is an aggregator of lots of stuff, of what […]
Cognitive Surplus will free up time to
One of the best talks at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo was Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus. In it he suggests that modern television is a, “cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.”
He concludes after describing how a child spent a few minutes looking for the mouse connected to […]
The Lifestream Filter Will be the Next Great Algorithm War
I’m paraphrasing the title of this post from David Recordon who threw this line out following a chat I had with him a couple of weeks back. It’s a very insightful observation that predicts opportunities in the real-time world which lifestream services operate.
It’s now easier than ever to pull together an aggregated feed of content […]
Facebook takes away your thumbs
Inside Facebook noticed that the thumbs up icon no longer on the Facebook mini-feed. All in the name of simplification says Facebook but to me it seems like they’ve removed a sense of control over the feed I once thought I had.
Curiously, the FAQ is still there.
Nate Ritter’s one man band media service
I went to a meetup sponsored by Netsquared and saw Nate Ritter talk about how he was able to fill in during the power outages during the San Diego fires and keep us all informed on what was going on. Part of his amazing story is how on the first day he worked for […]
Vitality - what’s next?
Back when Facebook announced it’s News Feed (then called the “mini-feed”) which aggregated all your friends activity onto a single, easy to scan page, there was a firestorm of controversy. What upset people the most was that this feed, which consisted of updates that, up until that time, had been scattered across each of your […]
last.fm artist page wiki
Tonight I discovered that last.fm has a wiki to store biographies for each of the artists (here’s the entry for Radiohead). They offer a subscription to an RSS feed of recent changes but with a last.fm twist - it limit the feed to updates of changes and edits to only artists it thinks you’ll care […]
Facebook and RSS out
(photo by: mariachisamurai)
Dave Winer pointed out that RSS feeds are now available for your Friends Status, Friends Posted and Notifications pages in Facebook. The friends updates have been around for a while but the notifications feed might be new. An astute comment on the Techcrunch post about this news says:
The news feed really was a […]
