How to Replace Twitter With Facebook
I just wrote about how Twitter is becoming much less necessary for me. In this post, I’d like to show you how, with just a few steps, you can get exactly what you’re getting on Twitter and more with just a Facebook account and a Page you administer. It’s actually really simple now. Here are […]
Read more...Facebook Quietly Launching Friendfeed-like Live Commenting
Tonight, in a moment of rare form, as I was singing Hakuna Matata on Facebook with Krystyl Baldwin and others (an occasion one must do often) I noticed a new feature pop up before my eyes. Instantly, with no refresh of the page, my News Feed was literally singing with new comments. It appears Facebook […]
Read more...With Facebook Messages, Has Facebook Reached FriendFeed Nirvana?
There’s no doubt of the FriendFeed team’s influence on Facebook after they were acquired a year ago. Bret Taylor, CEO of FriendFeed is now the CTO of Facebook after all. Even before the acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook was taking cues from the service, adding “like” buttons to posts, something available on FriendFeed for quite some […]
Read more...Loud Noises Be Gone! Mute Posts by Source in Google Buzz
I’ve long said that in good social networks, it’s not how you give, but how you receive that makes the social network powerful. This is why I like Facebook – I can hide the types of applications I don’t ever want to see, or I can just hide individuals. I liked FriendFeed even better because […]
Read more...The Butterflies are "All Around Us" – My Interview With Paul Buchheit, CoFounder of FriendFeed
I had the opportunity to spend a brief few minutes with Paul Buchheit, co-creator of FriendFeed.com, which was recently acquired by Facebook end of last year. In our interview, I asked Paul where “the Butterfly” was that was mentioned by him shortly after the acquisition (you can read more about that here). Paul seemed much […]
Read more...Speculation: Expect Something BIG in the Area of Real-Time at F8
I don’t do speculative posts like this too often, except around Facebook’s F8 developer events for the most part. The last one I predicted was that Facebook would announce a Mobile Platform at F8 – the announcement did occur along with Facebook Connect. The first F8 was the announcement of the Facebook API, which revolutionized […]
Read more...Google Changes the Way You Read My Feeds – You Still Have no Control
Louis Gray just reported a new way Google is trying to control the problem of mine and Louis’s and Robert Scoble and Mashable, and more of the more active feeds and streams on Google Buzz taking over the streams of our followers. The problem that was occuring is that for those with a lot of […]
Read more...FriendFeed Turns on the Twitter Firehose (Again)
It seems that some time today, the FriendFeed team has just re-enabled their live Twitter stream (using Twitter’s “Birddog” API) for real-time updates from Twitter. I noticed the update when posting a cool bookmarklet by Kynetx, and re-tested it again – sure enough the update to Twitter hit FriendFeed almost immediately after I posted it […]
Read more...Just in Time for the Holidays, FriendFeed Becomes First OAuth Wrap Provider
About a month ago, Facebook’s David Recordon announced that Facebook was hard at work with the Open Standards Communities on a new OAuth protocol called Wrap. The goals of the protocol seem to specifically provide a way to direct a user through the authentication process through a client-only model, removing the need for developers to […]
Read more...FriendFeed Launches Status Update Sync to Auto-update Facebook
Despite all the “FriendFeed is dead” arguments the naysayers have been pushing, a new, pretty significant update was pushed by the FriendFeed team today into production. The update belongs to FriendFeed’s App on Facebook, and now imports every update users post on status update services they import into FriendFeed as status updates on Facebook. This […]
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