Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future - ReadWriteWeb (20)
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URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture interesting data - but to date those opportunities have all just gone down the drain. Bit.ly, a new URL shortening service from the innovation network Betaworks, is launching today with a staggering feature set for both end users ...
What are social web sites? (6)
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I have said before that Twitter is a facilitator for communication rather than the conversation medium itself and to a degree the same thing can be said of all social networking services it’s just that the scale and details vary on a per service basis. Jason Goldberg posted that he saw FriendFeed as a school lunchroom where “conversations that may have started elsewhere are picked up and rehashed, commented on, and amplified”. He also states ...
Learning Your A,B,C’s : Geek Style (2)
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Wanna get your kids started on the path to geekdom? Maybe you should teach them their abc’s this way. [Source : My Blog Posts] related postsNo Related Post
Eight Great Songbird Extensions Worth A Test Drive | MakeUseOf.com (7)
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If you’re not familiar with Songbird then here’s an article by Mark from a few months back in case you missed it. I vaguely remember trying Songbird years ago and soon gave up due to it being hopelessly slow and buggy, but considering it’s still only in alpha (0.6.2) I can understand. After reading Mark’s article I was motivated to try it out again. I discovered huge improvements and while there are still performance issues, ...
Three Sticky Ways to Hold Reader Attention (6)
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Your copy might focus on benefits instead of features, have the right balance of emotion to logic, and maybe you’ve even snagged the reader’s attention with an arresting headline. But after your reader clicks through, does your copy hold her interest? If you can’t keep the reader’s attention, nothing else matters. And the online world demands your best techniques to hold reader interest, because tempting distractions are always just a click away. All writers and ...
JS-Kit Acquires Haloscan; Rolls Out Game Changing New Features | CenterNetworks (3)
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Yesterday I spoke with JS-Kit CEO Khris Loux who briefed me on several major updates for JS-Kit and their product roadmap. The first update is that JS-Kit has acquired comment replacement service HaloScan for an undisclosed sum. Loux says that HaloScan was actually the first comment replacement system and has over 500,000 active blog installations. He says while the new crop of comment replacement services including Intense Debate and Disqus are getting some press lately, ...
Is the iPhone a PR Fiasco for Rogers? (1)
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Ever since Rogers came out with its 3G iPhone plans, it has taken a public relations pounding. This has seen a wave of negative blog coverage, an online petition that has attracted more than 50,000 people, critical newspaper editorials, a lot of consumers dismissing plans to get an iPhone, and a temper tantrum from Apple, which has decided not to sell the iPhone at its Apple stores in Canada In response, Rogers has done little. ...
Late-Night Seesmic Desperation Yields Results (7)
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Guest Post By Cyndy Aleo-Carreira (E-mail / Twitter)I've made no secret of the fact that I'm not a huge fan of social media video sites. Videos take too much time to watch and slow me down in my daily consumption of the firehose. I'm still sitting on a 14-minute ode to copyright from Duncan Riley that I just can't bring myself to sacrifice 14 minutes of my already over-stuffed day to watch, yet I also ...
5 Interesting Ways to Use FriendFeed (10)
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No one can stop talking about FriendFeed. Obviously, that includes me. After all, there are so many ways to interact in FriendFeed and with a never-ending stream of content, the possibilities are limitless. This has enabled some users to find innovative ways of using FriendFeed; here I list the five that stand out. 1. Create a private online digital archive with Rooms Mike Fruchter’s post on this describes how he uses FriendFeed Rooms to archive ...
Can the D.C. Tech Community Unite? (1)
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Last week there was an article in the Post which highlighted the division of technology networking groups in the D.C. area. There was “a more formal event, with many silver-haired executives running their second or third technology company.” Then there was the D.C. bash that we helped put together. The result was two divergent crowds. The reason for all of this? I would suggest that one of the reasons is that some have adopted the ...
Safari on Windows is not really memory efficient (1)
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That’s at least what Sam Allen discovered who used a software that he programmed to record memory usage of processes in Windows. He tested Safari 3.1 along with Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and Flock and discovered a huge gap between Safari and the other four browsers. His application recorded the memory usage of the browser every three seconds over a period of three hours each and the graphs show clearly ...
Vivaty Launches Public Beta of Social Networks Meets Virtual Reality Application (3)
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Vivaty is announcing this morning that they are exiting the private beta stage and moving into a wide open public beta of their Vivaty Scenes product. Eric Eldon has an indepth review of the Vivaty product when they launched the private beta back in April. He also notes that the company has raised $9.4 million in venture capital funding. It's basically like Second Life meets social networking. The CEO says it's targeted towards the 15-35 ...
Falken's Maze -- Episode #3 (1)
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Falken's Maze -- Episode #3: Episode #3 features Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins of Mashable, who has recently begun a video podcast series on his personal site about all things Semantic Web, AI and robotics, with a healthy dose of ye olde social media thrown in for good measure;) We start off by discussing the MSFT-Powerset acquisition, as well as the drunken revelry that inevitably ensued (paging Owen Thomas…) We then segue into talking about the state ...
Nielsen: Teens Watching 5+ Hours of Mobile Video a Month; 65+ Internet Usage Over 26 Hours (1)
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Nielsen is out with a new report which brings together TV, Internet and mobile usage together for U.S. households. They found that Americans are watching more than 127 hours a month of television programming. Could the higher gas prices and food prices be a factor in this increase? Average Internet usage was up 9% to 26 hours a month. New metrics in the report include 2 hours of Internet video per month on average and ...
Rogers’ Blackberry Customers Should be Upset (1)
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News Update: Apple Insider is reporting that you won’t be able to purchase an iPhone at an Apple store in Canada, apparently because Apple is pissed at Rogers about its data plans. This story must be “news” because TechCrunch is on it as well. And now back to our regular programming…. Amid the furor over Rogers declining to sell the iPhone with consumer-friendly packages (e.g. unlimited data plans, a contract less onerous than three years), ...
louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining (23)
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I am a strong believer in the power of linking between blogs, and I still go out of my way to link, especially to peers, to smaller blogs, and to developers of services I write about. At one time, I thought being linked to by the most prominent bloggers could have a significant impact on my traffic. And for a short time, it did. But now, I've seen traffic from other blogs to be driving ...
Gwibber – The First identi.ca Client? (11)
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Looks pretty neat to me. This is in the works by Ryan Paul of Ars Technica. Good work Paul and I hope to see this released soon. Check out Paul’s “dents” on identi.ca for more information.
