Archive | September, 2008

Twitter Redesign Finally Goes Live

Back in July I was one of the first to break the news about a Twitter redesign that accidentally went live well before its time. FYI: TechCrunch copied and pasted practically my entire post about this. The redesign was available for all of about 3 minutes with only a handful of people able to grab [...]

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Was Digg Right To Ban Diggboss For His Helpful Script?

As a member of Digg since from mid 2006, but relatively inactive until 2007, Diggboss has been a great and valuable member of Digg for years. Today I was shocked to see that Digg has banned Diggboss from using the site. Diggboss diggs more than his fair share of articles on the site and contributes [...]

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Why Location Based Social Networks Need To Offer Something Different

Today on FriendFeed, Tamar Weinberg posted a message on FriendFeed about giving up on Brightkite. I asked Tamar what she was getting out of it to begin with and she replied, To be honest, not much. I forged one real life friendship out of it, so that was cool — it was fun to share [...]

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Community in the Cloud: Better or Worse?

This is a guest post by Grand Effect member David Peralty of College Crunch. If you enjoy this post, please be sure to give College Crunch a look when you’re done for more of his awesome work!          The social aspect of community is changing so rapidly, where we once had to seek people out [...]

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Where Google Chrome Failed To Succeed: The Integration Of Google Services

Today, Techmeme was probably the last site you wanted to visit if you weren’t interested in the latest Google news. The popular news meme was full of links about Google’s latest entrance in to the browser wars with Chrome. You can read plenty of information about Google Chrome on ReadWriteWeb and in the ReadWriteWeb FriendFeed [...]

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