Introducing Benjamin Golub... another new FriendFeeder! (12)
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We're really excited to announce our newest FriendFeed employee, Benjamin Golub. Ben was an early FriendFeed enthusiast and in his spare time, built fftogo, a super-useful mobile FriendFeed client using the FriendFeed API. Ben was most recently at Frontier Communications, a telecommunications company, and before that, he was an intern at Hyland Software while he was finishing his BS in Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Ben greatly impressed us with fftogo and another ...
Google LatLong: Pound the pavement (41)
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It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and when it's not too hot, it feels like a waste of gorgeous weather to get behind the wheel or hop in a cab. Doubly so when you're traveling to a city you'd love to explore, and you're pretty sure that you could walk from your hotel to the aquarium, if only you could figure out the way. You could try to use driving directions from Google Maps, but ...
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olive said:
This is just awesome and something that I wanted to happen for a long time!
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Sean Leather said:
Finally! Next up: biking directions, at least for the Netherlands. :)
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outlanderbz said:
Google Maps now has walking directions
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Dana said:
Hoorah! I can finally "walk" from where I used to live in Sydney to the Google Office. http://tinyurl.com/5uuthrAs opposed to drive. http://tinyurl.com/5jlsr6
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spavis said:
yay, this should make it easier to plan bike routes.
500 Invites to Signal Patterns for Inquisitr readers (1)
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Signal Patterns, perhaps the most deep and meaningful social connection service I’ve ever seen, launched their Facebook app Friday, and we’ve got invites for Inquisitr readers. The first 500 people to click this link get in. Once you hit the page following this link, sign up on the right hand side (the service is currently in closed beta). Signal Patterns’ new Facebook application “accurately surveys and assesses personalities to improve online and real world relationships.” ...
Free the Feed. Or Make It Free. (1)
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I hate your partial feed. Yes, I've heard all the arguments for partial feeds: they prevent splogging; they ensure people visit the site and generate the precious ad revenue; they keep feed readers from stealing eyeballs. Sploggers, however, scrape sites any which way they can. A full feed may make it a little easier, but a partial feed won't prevent it. I have one hilarious splog in my bookmarks that scrapes the content, translates it ...
Best of RWW: Making Facebook Useful (14)
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The weekend is a good chance to play around with web apps and social networks. With that in mind, on a rainy Sunday I found myself checking out Sarah Perez's classic post from May: How to Make Facebook Useful Again. You may also want to read the comments for other useful suggestions. But if you just want the highlights and then do some experimenting within Facebook on a lazy Saturday or Sunday, then here they ...
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micronetter said:
Great tips to making Facebook a useful asset and networking tool
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Susan Beebe said:
Hey Thanks Sara for the credit on this post! I have to say you did a fantastic job of pulling all this together!! Lots of good stuff here. This will be one I save for FB noobs! Thanks!
Please Gabe don’t listen to Dave (1)
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One has to wonder sometimes what exactly goes through the minds of some smart people. One minute they can be saying completely intelligible things that have us in awe of their lucid thoughts and the next they sound like they couldn’t connect the dots if their lives depended on it. Sometimes the disconnect is so painfully obvious that you just sit there scratching your head and wondering WTF were they thinking of. Other times you ...
Is The Social Web About To Kick Twitter Out Of The Lifeboat? (1)
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When the ship is sinking and the closest land is a tiny island, you want things and people that work and that bring benefit to the table in your lifeboat - it increases your chances of survival. This is Life 101 level knowledge, yet Twitter seems to have forgotten it lately. Even writing this post makes me cringe a bit - you all know I am a heavy Twitter user and a total cheerleader for ...
Prediction: FriendFeed Will Acquire NoiseRiver (1)
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Louis Gray wrote earlier today about Noise River, a new service that taps into the FriendFeed API to deliver intuitive filtered content, along with some other extras. To use, FriendFeed users sign in with their FriendFeed user name and FF key. NoiseRiver then asks uses to rate their likes or dislikes based around keywords and user names. The result: filtered content, graded based on your on specifications and likes. Also thrown in for good measure, ...
Techmeme and the Noise Problem [Inquisitr - 6/28/08] (7) (1)
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Shared seven times Tagged Friendfeed (842) qmeme (10) Tech (569) TechMeme (37) Bitchmeming about Techmeme has long been a favorite past-time of bored early adopters over numerous weekends in the last year. The arguments are usually similar, and revolve around variations of Techmeme is to focused on reporting news from large companies and/ or ignores small startups, and that it is dominated by a few sites while others don’t get a look in. I’ve been ...