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Weekly links: January 4

by Andy DeSoto on January 11, 2009

It’s been a slow tech news weekend, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite articles from the past week in case you hadn’t caught them yet.

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Thanks for reading!

by Andy DeSoto on September 9, 2008

I was just about to settle in for the evening and launch a session of Spore when I caught blogger Louis Gray’s tweet: he’d just finished highlighting five bloggers in a monthly series he’s ran since March of this year. This month, I’m absolutely thrilled to be on his list!

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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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