Social Aggregators
Facebook Is No Threat To Friendfeed
A tweet by Lee Sherman just noted the following:
Facebook’s lifestream is a real threat to FriendFeed. It’s easy to add web services, much harder to recreate the social graph everywhere.
However, I’d have to disagree with Sherman for three reasons: demographics, different uses, and a closed community.
Different Uses
Due to the demographics of [...]
Facebook Helping Mass Adoption?
News is spreading quickly about Facebook’s newest enhancement to their Newsfeed.
According to the Facebook blog:
Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren’t Facebook. You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook. There are a lot of good sites out there, unfortunately, that can sometimes mean a [...]
ReadBurner VS RSSmeme Aggregation Show Down
Well, someone was going to do it eventually, might as well be me. ;)
So, with the re-launch of the Google Reader Shared Items Aggregator (someone please shorten this!) ReadBurner I’m sure everyone’s wondering how it might compare to it’s closest competitor RSSmeme. Well, I’d have to say that they each have their strengths and weaknesses [...]
ReadBurner Launches With Google Reader Integration!
The ReadBurner web app and Google Reader Shared Items Aggregator (here’s mine), has launched with a bang! Here’s a run down of what’s new and why it’s awesomesauce approved!
New Design
ReadBurner has a brand new design that is 10 times better then it’s previous interface. First off, I think the color scheme is stunning! It [...]
Feedalizr A Friendfeed AIR App Before Alert Thingy
As it turns out, Alert Thingy was NOT the first Friendfeed Adobe AIR application. Sorry to break your hearts!
Feedalizr, another Friendfeed Adobe AIR app, was in the space first! It was released on April 11th, beating Alert Thingy by 2 days! However, it doesn’t fair much better than Alert Thingy. There aren’t any customization [...]
Alert Thingy Desktop App Wasn’t Worth The Wait
A few days ago, Sobees released their Friendfeed desktop app (bTittleTattle) and there were many complaints and suggestions for the app. However, everyone was still holding their breath for Alert Thingy, a Friendfeed desktop app with an interface similar to Twhirl. When it previewed on TechCrunch, the most obvious reason for the hold out [...]
Visual Lifestreaming Goodness!
Lifestreaming is slowly becoming a very popular concept these days. Essentially, a Lifestream is a visual representation of the things you are doing or promoting on the web. It features just about everything you do on a particular service from your messages on Twitter to everything you’re bookmarking in delicious; all for public consumption. For [...]
