Here’s some embedded items from FriendFeed
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Chris Heath
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There’s Twitter the company, and twitter the medium
Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Esteemed online voices @LeoLaporte and @DaveWiner are sounding the alarm about Twitter’s increasing platform dominance. “It’s a very dangerous network because it’s all centralized,” Winer said. Both critics have installed their own smaller, open-source micro-messaging systems outside of Twitter’s domain, i.e., Evan Prodromou’s Laconica. read more | digg story
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Facebook Copying FriendFeed, Which Originally Copied Twitter
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Chris Heath
Please Stand By by Steve Gillmor Facebook is counting on the same relative inertia that Twitter has so carefully cultivated. The calculation is that 175 million people are less likely to move away from something than they are to wait and see what is going to happen. For the advanced user, an open Facebook stream [...]
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Facebook screws iFart author
Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Chris Heath
So, why did they kick him off? Because he triggered some sort of automatic alert that he was participating in spamming behavior. “Did you get a warning,” I asked Comm.“Yes. When we were sending the messages we got a warning and we stopped,” Comm says.“Why did they kick you off then?” I asked.“I don’t know, [...]
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Dupes & ongoing updates to Digg’s algo
Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Chris Heath
We wanted to address some complaints about weaknesses in our duplicate detection mechanism and provide some insights on upcoming changes to the Digg promotional algorithm. read more | digg story
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My New Favorite Tech Personality – Robert Scoble
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Chris Heath
Great post about celebrity vs authority or why it’s better to care about who you follow online than who follows you. Now, to be fair, the post that started this mess, from Loic Le Meur, had a good goal: to make it possible to find better tweets in searches. In other words, to separate the [...]
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MySpace, Facebook, and Digg
Posted on September 28th, 2005 by Chris Heath
UPDATE 2008: So I had my blog criticized today, and decided to make this page my Contact area. Post a comment here or find me on one of my many online locations. My email address is also on chrisheath.us as well as other places around the net… such as: Original post: So I set up [...]
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