Conversations: Ben Stein - nytimes.com/conversations (video)
youtube.com 12/9/2008 — Candid conversations with some of today's most interesting people about their passions, their lives and NYTimes.com.

Actual Conversations On Twitter Not Possible Until Twitter Lets Us
techcrunch.com 12/28/2008 — One of the big complaints about Twitter is that conversations are hard to follow. Users can write a response to a Twitter message (or anything else), but the easy way to do this is to add an @[username] tag to the Twitter, which refers back to the original Twitter user. But by then that ...

The space between Twitter and FriendFeed
scripting.com 12/8/2008 — I'm a longtime Twitter user, and as you may know a very regular user of FriendFeed . Each has its strengths but if I had to choose, sort of like Sophie's Choice , I'd have to go with FriendFeed. I finally figured out why this is a few days ago as I ...

Twitter-to-FriendFeed
twitter2ff.appspot.com 12/9/2008 — We retrieve your Twitter friends We retrieve your FF subscriptions, and cross-check the usernames against your Twitter friends. The ones that match are left out of the next step. The usernames of the un-matched Twitter friends are used to query ...

Why I Love Twitter
radar.oreilly.com 11/30/2008 — If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to . I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the ...

Did I harm my blog by FriendFeeding this year?
scobleizer.com 12/23/2008 — Since I’ve been blogging eight years this month I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my blog and how I want to do things differently in 2009. I told Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch , that I wonder if I’ve made smart time ...

This Could Get Annoying: Auto-Post Your Friendfeed Updates to Twitter
mashable.com 10/31/2008 — Friendfeed has just enabled an option to broadcast your lifestream – in its entirety – to Twitter. This means that whenever you share something in Google Reader, upload a new photo to Flickr, favorite a video on YouTube, or participate in any of the ...

Nokia Conversations - Stories from around the neighborhood
conversations.nokia.com 12/2/2008 — VW_new LONDON, England - The other week I wrote a post having dug my old N95 out of the cupboard and asked simply how we view the N95 today. The responses, I have to say, were pretty astounding and thankfully I wasn't too far off the mark in ...

Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism
mathewingram.com 11/27/2008 — Like a lot of other people, I’ve been following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) throughout the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on. Sites like Global Voices — the excellent ...

Twitterank Can Have My Password, No Questions Asked
louisgray.com 11/13/2008 — Today Twitter was abuzz around the launch of a new site that ostensibly provides you with a numerical ranking, based on your followers, those you follow, and their collective clout. Twitterank , like Twitter Grader and others, is trying to deliver ...

Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke? — CNET News.com 11/24/2008
Apparently, Facebook really was trying to buy Twitter. But Twitter's investors and executives would rather come up with a business model first, AllThingsD reported.

When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Failed — Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker 11/24/2008
From All Things Digital, Nov. 24, 2008: About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. While rumors of Facebook’s interest were broug

Would You Pay For Twitter? — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 11/24/2008
My colleague Allen Stern says no . He says he might pay to use Twitter for business, but wouldn't do it just to hear what people are having for breakfast. I think I use Twitter differently than Allen, but my answer is pretty much the same as his: ...

Daily Debrief: Twitter this--why do a Facebook deal? — CNET News.com 11/24/2008
Twitter and Facebook, two of the best-known names in the Web 2.0 constellation, have been talking merger. But at least for now, there's no deal. On Monday's Daily Debrief, CNET News' Charles Cooper speaks with Dan Farber about what might still bring ...

It's a good thing Facebook's not buying Twitter — CNET News.com 11/25/2008
The match looks good on the surface, but deep down it's a mess.