mashable.com - 10/14/2009
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Last week in the Mashable Chat , Pete and Robert Scoble were discussing FriendFeed and some of the reasons the service failed to take off with mainstream users.
The influx of information, the inability to control what you see and the overall ease-of-use were all reasons mentioned why the ...
mashable.com - 10/19/2009
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mashable.com —
A few weeks ago, we caught wind that
Facebook was testing a new homepage design . Screenshots...
revealed a few interesting changes, such as a decrease in size for the Facebook Publisher box and a new, Friendfeed-like “Top News” filter for ...
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LEAKED: Details of the Facebook Home Page Redesign ...
centernetworks.com - 10/17/2009
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centernetworks.com —
Remember Friendfeed ? The ultimate sharing service that
was going to beat Twitter and reach the mainstream...
in a big way? Web trending service Compete shows Friendfeed down nearly 30% in September with 750,000 U.S. unique visitors. This is down ...
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Anyone Still Using Friendfeed?
scobleizer.posterous.com - 10/18/2009
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scobleizer.posterous.com —
Where do I spend my attention? That's all
I have. Unlike many others in the tech community...
I don't have a lot of money to invest in companies. I also don't have coding skills, so can't build stuff, so the only way I can build stuff is to spend my ...
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The Second Life of FriendFeed?
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Social TV Is Harder Than We Thought
NewTeeVee —
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Sometimes it’s just a matter of seeing would-be social TV products in action to understand what they’re lacking. When Verizon FiOS added a Twitter app, it left out the part where people could actually update their statuses, thinking a public stream would do. Verizon said the capacity to contribute simply hadn’t occurred to them, and after users complained added the functionality within two weeks.
Today Cliqset, a well-reviewed FriendFeed-esque startup, launched a Boxee app to give users the ability ...
Cliqset One-Ups FriendFeed By Organizing Information Into Modules
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... went into public beta. The Cliqset application was built using Adobe AIR. Cliqset can aggregate all the same social networks that FriendFeed can, but it allows you to sort the activity in separate modules. Cliqset also has better control of what you the information that you would like to see. ...
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scobleizer.com 8/10/2009 — When I heard the news I was walking through San Antonio’s Hard Rock Cafe looking at Kurt Cobain’s high school photograph. Wow. FriendFeed was purchased by Facebook .
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