Topic: FriendFeed Inc.

Why Facebook Should Acquire Location-Based SN, FourSquare

The rumor mill has been churning ever since Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, flew to New York to visit Foursquare CEO Dennis Crow, reports TechCrunch. The meeting hints at a potential acquisition of FourSquare...READ»

Threadsy Smooshes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and More Into a Surprisingly Clean Stream

Using several different social networks can get confusing. Threadsy aggregates a bunch of them in a Web app, and mostly manages to make it compelling. It's basically a one-stop shop for online communication.READ»

A New Kind of Social Networking Search/Discovery Tool

Here we get an exclusive first look at Semantinet, which is a tool that’ll help you get the information you care about out of your social networking tools and feeds. Founder Tai Keinan demonstrates Semantinet and explains why it’s ...READ»

See How Much Tme You Are Wasting With RescueTime

Tony Wright, CEO of Rescuetime shows me how you can use his service to watch what you do during the day and will show you how much time you are wasting playing games, on Facebook, Twitter, or FriendFeed, so you can rebalance your life ...READ»

The World Wide Talk Show Host

Loic Le Meur runs the LeWeb conference, which just concluded last week in Paris, France. He also runs Seesmic, which is a startup that makes a variety of services and tools for what Loic calls "the instant Web." I call it the World ...READ»

Avoiding the Fail Whale

[video_twistage 1]Speaking? * Paul Buchheit, Founder of Friendfeed and one of the the creators of Gmail. * Dorion Carroll, VP of engineering at Technorati * Nat Brown: CTO of iLike, a music community service that had ...READ»

The Case for Handcrafted Social Media (Or Why You Should Stop Auto-Updating Your Feeds)

You follow the same person or company on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz, and every other time you see an update you get déjà vu. You think, "I've seen this before..."--and you have, because they're automatically posting the ...READ»

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)

Google's new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely. READ»

Google Unveils Buzz, a Social Media App for Gmail (Facebook Status: Concerned)

Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated ...READ»

Work Smart: Mastering Your Social Media Life

When you're active on the Web, keeping up with all your online accounts can feel like a full-time job. You want your high school friends to find you on Facebook, your co-workers to follow you on Twitter, and business associates to ...READ»

A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io

Ever since social media data started growing like bathroom flora, there have been aggregation tools to make managing your stuff easier. Some are limited in scope; FriendFeed, for example, pulls together just a few services, but does ...READ»

Twitter's Investors Missed the Cluetrain - Here's Why

Twitter, the microblogging service that changed everything, hasn't changed all that much argue the four co-authors of The Cluetrain ManifestoREAD»

Google and Future of Information and Copyright

What is copyright worth? As stories of the decline in sales of newspapers continue to be reported, as well as the possible shift in newspapers going completely digital, is it really worth these companies to go after such seemingly insignificant details?READ»

Posterous Makes iPhone Photoblogging Ingenious

There are plenty of ways to blog a cat, and nearly all the tools out there work fine. But make no mistake: there's a blogging arms race going on.Arguably the three most advanced contenders--slick, free Web 2.0 tools with ...READ»

Facebook Lite Just Isn't Twitter

Facebook gained pop stardom by allowing college students to create their own little PR campaign: the pictures they wanted seen, the books and films they wanted to boast they loved. It was an orderly, sanitized place where users could ...READ»

Facebook + FriendFeed = Real Time Search??

While the FriendFeed acquisition appears to be a Shot at Twitter, Google is in Facebook's crosshairsREAD»

Did Chrome OS Go Public to Beat Microsoft's News? Nope

Google's Chrome OS is either neat or irrelevant, depending on how you think--but the timing is undeniably interesting. It's more than a year away, so why'd Google go to press now? One theory is to beat Microsoft. This idea's being ...READ»

Nova Spivack's Twine Is Red-Hot

Nova Spivack's red-hot site, Twine, uses artificial intelligence to find and store Web info.READ»

What the Hell is Tumblr? And Other Worthwhile Questions

If you're a nerd, you have spent the last year explaining to your friends the virtue (or downfall) of Twitter and Facebook. In another year, you'll have a third prong to your presentation: Tumblr. Tumblr is a little bit the ...READ»

Google Profiles Competes in Social Listing Space

According to John Battelle, it's a really big deal. Others are comparing it to a LinkedIn or Facebook killer. Whatever you call it, Google Profiles are here to stay and they can give you a lot more splash for your personal brand. ...READ»

1.0, 2.0. Next version will be named 'Big Brother'

What comes after Web2.0? Everything - and not like you think!READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Web 2.0

You read our Fast Company 50. Now learn about the companies within specific industries that are doing both creative and ground-breaking work. Here we present the top ten in Web 2.0.READ»

How Does Customer Support for Free Services Work?

Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Google, FriendFeed - there is no scarcity of networks and services that are free to users who enjoy a connection to the World Wide Web today. What happens when one of these services we have come to rely on experiences a problem? How does customer support for free services work? READ»

Robert Scoble's 10 Favorite Tech Experts on FriendFeed

Fast Company tech guru Robert Scoble shares his ten favorite tech experts to follow on FriendFeed. From Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, to Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Forrester Research, these are the experts to watch. READ»

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Why You Should Make Your Product for Early Adopters

Tech companies shouldn't turn their backs on early adopters. Just ask Amazon.READ»

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