FriendFeed and The Future Of Distributed Conversations (4)
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Interview with FriendFeed Steve Gillmor and I did a video interview with Bret Taylor from FriendFeed. There are some interesting responses and content in here and it expands on a few points that were discussed during a panel today at the Supernova 2008 conference. To begin with, Bret states that they re-thought how FriendFeed could work as a communication tool, and are contemplating supporting the XMPP format (Jabber). XMPP support would mean that a whole ...
Fwix Gives Your City Its Own News Feed (15)
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In the last year, we’ve covered well over a dozen activity aggregators, nearly all of which share a single goal: helping you keep track of your friends’ exploits across the web. Today, we see the launch of Fwix, an aggregator that is taking a (thankfully) different approach. Fwix isn’t concerned with your friends - instead, it keeps track of what’s going on in your physical region. The site pulls data from over 30 APIs including ...
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Lin Shan said:
各式各样的聚合，都出来了，真热闹～
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Danielle said:
This could be cool, unfortunately they aren't including Seattle yet.
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Jonathan said:
Pretty cool site doing a location based newsfeed mashup.
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Justin said:
It looks like Facebook and I may like it
Fwix Gives Your City Its Own News Feed (22)
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In the last year, we’ve covered well over a dozen activity aggregators, nearly all of which share a single goal: helping you keep track of your friends’ exploits across the web. Today, we see the launch of Fwix, an aggregator that is taking a (thankfully) different approach. Fwix isn’t concerned with your friends - instead, it keeps track of what’s going on in your physical region. The site pulls data from over 30 APIs including ...
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Danielle said:
This could be cool, unfortunately they aren't including Seattle yet.
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Justin said:
It looks like Facebook and I may like it
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Lin Shan said:
各式各样的聚合，都出来了，真热闹～
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Jeff said:
I am always interested in stuff that is going on locally, so this could be useful. Unfortunately the local stuff is limited to about 5 US cities at the moment
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Jonathan said:
Pretty cool site doing a location based newsfeed mashup.
AOL BUYS SOCIALTHING!! (14)
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AOL is getting into the lifestreaming business. Like Friendfeed or Facebook’s News feeds, it recently launched AIM BuddyUpdates, which lets AIM users keep up with what their instant-messaging buddies are doing on social services such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Digg. To beef up its lifestreaming capabilities, we have been able to confirm that it has also bought Socialthing!, a FriendFeed competitor that is still in private beta. We don’t know the price, but it ...
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Mitchell said:
Hmm, I love SocialThing! I'm not sure I'm like that the name AOL is behind it. First smart move by AOL tho
Suddenly, AOL Loves Lifestreaming; Buys Socialthing! (42)
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AOL is getting into the lifestreaming business. Like Friendfeed or Facebook’s News feeds, it recently launched AIM BuddyUpdates, which lets AIM users keep up with what their instant-messaging buddies are doing on social services such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Digg. To beef up its lifestreaming capabilities, we have been able to confirm that it has also bought Socialthing!, a FriendFeed competitor that is still in private beta. We don’t know the price, but it ...
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Mitchell said:
Hmm, I love SocialThing! I'm not sure I'm like that the name AOL is behind it. First smart move by AOL tho
Call your Twitter pals with Phweet (32)
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Would you like to talk to your Twitter friends or set up a spontaneous conference call? Normally you’d have to agree to hook up over Skype or something else. But soon you could be making calls via Twitter. Phweet is a new service which does just this (thanks to Pat Phelan of MaxRoam and Twitterfone for the tip-off). After signing in with your Twitter name and password you select how the call will be carried, ...
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Chris Ediger said:
Looks really interesting. Will need to keep track of this one. Twitter just keeps looking better (if they can ever fix the stability issues).
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iwein said:
this might become an interesting alternative to being tied to skype
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John Ranaudo said:
Is video next?
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BillDeys said:
this looks cool, I'll have to try sometime
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It. (20)
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I’m tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn’t exist today, and as far as we can tell no one is creating one. So let’s design it, build a few and then ...
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Brian Wilson said:
I'm going to buy one of these if TechCrunch actually gets it working.
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Theron said:
I love tablet computers. I had a Motion Computer slate in my last job and wish I still did. Almost perfect in every way. I can't wait to see what they come up with...
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John said:
I would think this was BS if I hadn't seen TC's Wii (and other gameing systems) which are so cool to see in action. I can't wait to see what you all come up with.
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Derek said:
These people are so high.
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Marcus said:
Arrington is a friggin genius and he is just the type of person who could make this happen. I really like the idea of keeping it on the cheap. IF this works out, and that is a big IF, I will line up and camp out to get one. Note: just don't screw it up like the 1G Kindle. I had high hopes for that thing and it really didn't deliver.
TechCrunch Pitch! in London - The Wrap (3)
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Last week TechCrunch UK held the first TechCrunch Pitch! event in London. The idea came about for this after I went to a number of demo and pitch events in the UK and other European countries and realized that too many startups were not actually getting to the point in their pitch to the audience and potential investors. You have to remember that the concept of pitching, and how to pitch, is deeply ingrained in ...
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Aymeric said:
Plein de choses à voir.
Google Continues To Test A Search Interface That Looks More Like Digg Every (5)
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A couple of days ago we posted screen shots of a new search interface being bucket tested by Google that lets users vote up or down on search results. The resulting interface was very Digg-like, and included a total vote count, etc. Today Adrian Pike, the CTO of startup Tatango, noticed that the interface changed yet again and now includes user comments. Like Digg, each comment has an up or down vote feature as well, ...
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Aymeric said:
Interessant dans l'idée, mais très power user à mon goût.
Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory (7)
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Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor Anita Elberse comes to in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review that takes on some of the sacred cows of the Long Tail theory. The Long Tail is Wired editor Chris Anderson’s theory ...
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Anthony said:
In the end, Elberse presents a false dichotomy. The choice is not head or tail. It’s both.
Three Barriers Holding Up Apple TV (1)
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Daniel Eran Dilger Compared to the high profile sales of iPhones, iPods, and Mac computers, shipments of Apple TV are barely registering. Pundits present rival media boxes as potential “Apple TV killers,” but the entire market segment seems to have little life in it yet. Here’s what’s holding the market for downloadable videos back, leading up to what Apple can do to shake up the market and why it is unique in being able to ...
IBM solar cell trick brings future of green tech into focus (1)
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IBM has cooked up a way to squeeze more energy out of a solar cell, using a magnifier and cooling techniques that were invented for microchips. This is just one part of the company's ongoing "green tech" efforts.Read More...
Just in time for Apple? AT&T wrapping up 3G network upgrade (1)
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AT&T has announced that it plans to complete its HSUPA rollout before the end of June, making it the only US carrier to have fully deployed HSUPA on its 3G network. The timing of the announcement has contributed to the growing buzz about a 3G iPhone launch, too.Read More...
Apple’s AirPort grabs 10.6% share of 802.11n WiFi market (1)
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While Apple’s share of the entire US PC market hovers between 6% and 8% depending on the source, its share of the 802.11n WiFi base station market is even higher. Stephen Baker, an analyst for market research firm NPD Group, told AppleInsider that Apple took 10.6% of the market in unit volume last month. He added that the company’s revenue and profit share on sales of the routers are even higher. Last year, Apple noted ...
Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden (2)
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The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves. And their three new products, Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and Friend Connect, are all designed to further that goal. Internet giants know that the days of getting you to spend all of your time ...
Android vs. LiMo: What’s the difference? (3)
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With LiMo’s recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Google’s competing product, Android. Both are open-source Linux-based platforms, and both are aiming to rock the handset market sometime in the next year or so. LiMo is Linux-based. Android is Linux-based. But they’re far from the same. Below, I’ll try to explain some of the key differences without going too heavy ...
