July 2008

Filtering: Why FriendFeed is taking the web to the next level

by Andy DeSoto on July 28, 2008

As more content and conversation is aggregated, aggregation services have even arisen to sort out the aggregates, resulting in an almost overwhelming firehose of social media noise. We need an innovator– fast– to keep us from drowning in information that is extraneous, duplicate, meaningless, or offensive.

Fortunately for the Internet, we have that innovator: FriendFeed. This new-age service has revealed to us the true ‘fourth generation’ of social media value: filtering.

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Weekly links: July 20

by Andy DeSoto on July 26, 2008

Just because I’ve been quiet, though, doesn’t mean the internet has– without further ado, I present some of my favorite links from the last few weeks.

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Real-time competitiveness makes Plurk sticky

by Andy DeSoto on July 25, 2008

I think I’ve figured out what helps make social network Plurk so sticky, why it continues to draw users back increasingly more often for longer periods of time: the Plurk timeline not only shows the conversations that you’re engaged in, but those that your friends and followers are keeping up with, too. Let me be a [...]

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