Topic: FriendFeed Inc.

Go Ahead, Add 'News Producer' To Your Resume

So I'm sifting through my RSS feeds on Google Reader, organizing each element just right, and filtering out the junk I don't want to read about when it hits me... I'm producing my own news! Believe it or not, social media has ...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»

• 7 Ways Bret Taylor Uses FriendFeed
• FriendFeed: Twitter on Steroids
• Scobleizer: Why You Should Make Your Product for Early Adopters

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»

Facebook + FriendFeed = Real Time Search??

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

Twitter on Steroids

Finally! A way to check on what your friends are doing every minute of every day on every social network. That’s FriendFeed. All together now: “We’re not currently monetizing the site.”READ»

• 7 Ways Bret Taylor Uses FriendFeed
• Why Facebook Is Even Bigger Than You Think
• Is Michael Arrington One of the World's Most Influential People?

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

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

Conference Hopping

Is it just me or are there conferences going on EVERYWHERE? There's OMMA, Web 2.0 NY and IZEAFest this month and ESM and MarketingProfs next month to name a few. I know I'm speaking at the Association for Women in ...READ»

Why You Should Make Your Product for Early Adopters

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

• What Newspapers Can Learn From the Tech Industry
• Microsoft vs. Google in the Battle for the Stars

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»

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»

Journalism's Evolution In An Era Of Social Media

Journalism is at a crossroads, with two distinct groups voicing their opinions. On one side, many journalists don’t buy the trend toward social media and have their heads firmly entrenched in the sand. They believe in their ...READ»

WorkFast.TV: How Best Buy Engages Employees to Improve Productivity

Today on WorkFast.TV: Best Buy's Michele Azar (VP Emerging Customer Channels) and Gary Koelling - co-founder of the 22,000-employee behind-firewall social network BlueShirt Nation talk about how employees are helping each other as ...READ»

WorkFast.TV: The 10 Secrets of Highly Productive People

Today's show, The 10 Secrets of Highly Productive People, features Matt Rissell, CEO of TSheets, a Boise-based provider of online timeclocks used by employees and consultants. On his blog, he writes about how he set out to interview ...READ»

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»

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»

Robert Scoble on Twitter

Twitter has evolved from status updates into public conversation with colleagues, companies, and your target audience. Here are the highlights of one memorable week in Scoble’s tweetstream.READ»

• 10 Things You Can Do With Twitter

WorkFast.TV, A Live Streaming Video Show Launches on FastCompany.TV Today

WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that ...READ»

Avoiding the Fail Whale

Building a server environment that’s scalable and reliable can be tough, especially when your traffic goes "nuts" virtually overnight. Fast Company Live presents a special one-hour live webinar, moderated by Robert Scoble and featuring a panel of tech leaders from companies big to small who are facing these very issues.READ»

• Watch It Live Right Now
• 10 Web 2.0 Failures
• 10 Web 2.0 Ideas That Failed

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»

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»

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»

WorkFast.TV: Interview with "Mr. Office 2.0" Live on FastCompany.TV

Technology bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel interview Ismael Ghalimi, founder-producer of the Office 2.0 conference, founder-CEO of Intalio, co-founder of Mondolabs the experimental Office 2.0 startup incubator, on WorkFast.TV ...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»

Your Social Media Mission - PR It Forward

From the amount of response to PitchEngine, it's apparent that the majority of social media adoption is coming from PR professionals, not journalists. While there are some early adopters like Wired Journalists and others in the ...READ»

WorkFast.TV: Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek

This week WorkFast.TV comes a day early to accommodate July 4, Independence Day. The guest today, Timothy Ferriss, is a great advocate of getting out of the office and getting on with life. To watch the show live and join the ...READ»