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My social media workflow

by Andy DeSoto on January 5, 2009

My social media habits can be basically broken down into three parts: a beginning of the day, catch-up phase, a midday working segment, and an evening entertainment portion. Here’s how I do it.

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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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What is Swurl?

by Andy DeSoto on June 16, 2008

If you’ve ever spent any time with the microblogging tool Tumblr, Swurl will seem awfully familiar: it’s a service that “brings all your web content together into a blog format… supporting your existing blog, pictures, links, videos, and more.” Much like the older Tumblr, Swurl seems designed to keep things simple, yet content-rich.

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