December 2008

Finally, a web service offers open arms to Powncers where Six Apart fell short: Soup.io, a great aggregation and lifestreaming tool I’ve blogged about before, has just released a beta Pownce Migration Tool designed to help refugee Powncers make a home with another great service. You can access this tool at http://www.soup.io/pownce, a site that warmly reads, “Been abandoned by your web app? We’ve built this migration tool to allow you to give Soup a shot and see if it might be the right home for you.”

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The Simplification era is nigh

by Andy DeSoto on December 8, 2008

With the developments of the last month and a half or so, it’s clear to me that the needs of the social web have moved past filtering. As the economy impacts the tech sphere, once-sturdy Web 2.0 startups crumble, and even the most powerful publishing companies begin to feel the strain, I’m realizing that what I and many fellow users need now is simplicity, a step beyond mere filtering– it’s what we reach once we’ve refined, drilled down, and pared away all but the necessities of our social web and social media experiences.

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One less reason to use Vimeo, even YouTube

by Andy DeSoto on December 7, 2008

This is HUGE for me. Why? I have virtually no reason whatsoever to use Vimeo anymore, a site I’ve been relying on recently for its HD upload feature (which has been out for a while now– same with a photo hosting site I use called SmugMug). I’m able to take all my business directly to Facebook.

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