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.
by Andy DeSoto on July 14, 2008
I’ve only been up for a few hours, and already I’m stuck in an afternoon rut: reloading the same websites, refreshing the same empty conversations, and switching between the same tabs. As my summer vacation nears an end, I realize the next five weeks will pass in a similar way unless I cut back on useless web activity to jump-start my productivity both on- and off-line.
by Andy DeSoto on July 7, 2008
If anyone can draw thousands of users to a new web service, it’s a guy like Kevin Rose. Universally (and occasionally begrudgingly) liked, followed on a myriad of services, and an influential name in the business, Kevin’s vote counts for a metric ton. As you can probably guess, if Kevin joins a service, a crowd follows. That’s exactly what happened on FriendFeed this weekend as some big web celebrity names started up accounts on the service.
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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