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OK Twitter, Maybe it WAS Me Too…

22.May.08 | 5 Comments

Two days ago I gave up on Twitter. Yep, I quit and I quit publicly.
This afternoon I started up again.
Pretty weak, eh? For what it’s worth, I still “stand behind” most of what I wrote. Clearly, I need to manage my own little tensions though…
It seems FriendFeed isn’t quite ready to be an alternative to [...]

Sorry Twitter But It’s You, Not Me.

20.May.08 | 7 Comments

A month ago I was pondering social bankruptcy, but since then I really hadn’t made any changes–until today. The recent and frequent twitter outages have inspired me to give that service up cold turkey.
Outages = aggravation. Who needs aggravation? Not me.
I’ve seen a lot of folks excuse or apologize for the twitter outages by trotting [...]

Social Aggregating

14.Mar.08 | 6 Comments

Social Aggregation seems to be the new cool thing in the web 2.0 world this week. The premise seems sound: Why follow folks via a dozen different services? Instead, pull them all into one service and follow there.
To that end, I’ve been experimenting with a couple of the apps this week. Both have great potential. [...]

FriendFeed Imaginary Friends

03.Mar.08 | 3 Comments

FriendFeed’s imaginary friend capability might just make it the easiest (dare I say best?) way to follow folks from all over — without them even having to be a FriendFeed user.
You can keep track of your friends that don’t use FriendFeed by creating “imaginary friends.” For example, if you know your friend’s Flickr username, you [...]

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