November 20, 2008

They’re just making this up, aren’t they?

Over on FriendFeed Louis Gray mentioned that his Twitterank is #1, and his Tweetvalue is $1034. My Tweetvalue is $241, and I couldn't really care less what my Twitterank is, as it seems they're just making this stuff up. Here's how twitterank relates to tweetvalue for the top 50. I think I'm going to have to assign a value of $0 to Twitterank and a rank of last to Tweetvalue.

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July 3, 2008

Twitter Clones — Deja Vu All Over Again

With all the talk of identi.ca, Plurk, Jaiku, FriendFeed, Twitter down time and the chatter from folks looking for a stable, full-featured social messaging service, I thought I might recycle an article from the archives. Please forgive me for the re-post, and the slight license taken in the translation. Read the rest of this entry »

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June 28, 2008

Summize is your Imaginary Friend

If anybody’s keeping score, I’m one of those folks who thinks that IM, SMS, email, Twitter, FriendFeed, and perhaps another two or three other services we haven’t seen yet each have their place and that no one service is likely to crush another, let alone all the others. I do find myself spending more and more time on FriendFeed, however, and for information flow that’s not time sensitive, FriendFeed and Feedly make up my dashboard.

One very handy but somewhat hidden feature of FriendFeed is the "Imaginary Friend".

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