Cool stuff I was readingFebruary 8th toApril 7th:
I caught wind of this the tonight and think it is an interesting addition to the ongoing debates of both real time news as well as Twitter.
As Friendfeed is managing to do, Facebook is attempting to do and numerous other sites fail to do, the real-time web (largely driven by Twitter) is moving closer and closer, but the very nature of it - news created by amateurs experiencing the news themselves is somewhat sketchy at best, blatantly false at worst.
At the other end of the scale we have the aggregators who collate news based on the number of links a particulr piece of news has. The more popular it is, the higher it will appear in the aggregator (Yahoo/Google News for example).
But, does the most popular news have the same value to users as breaking news? I would argue not. The problem is, breaking news takes a while to attract links and build up a head of steam to become massively mainstream breaking news, yet Twitter lacks the depth of detail to add detail to the story.
Along comes Vik’s Tweet News - a Yahoo BOSS/Twitter mash-up which compares the emerging news stories on Twitter and compares the to the stories in Yahoo News. If there is something in both Yahoo News and Twitter, chances are its breaking news but with some meat to it - rather than a collection of brief, 140 character messages.
The end result is a tool that tracks breaking news stories ranked by the hyper-time-sensitive results on Twitter, arguably offering faster updates, better relevance and more in-depth coverage than either source by itself.
Cool stuff I was readingJune 27th toJuly 5th:
- Rohit Bhargava Social Media Bio: M YB I O - Rohit’s social media biography
- Resume 2.0 « The Secret Diary of a Bonafide Marketing Genius - A great piece about the social media release
- Again, One Clueless Person Destroys the Privacy Of Millions - Overview of the beginning of the end for data privacy
- Training Field Teams | Retail Sales Training | Field Marketing | Tips | Advice - Sales training advice
- Pam Ragland’s Have Anything Blog - interesting thoughts about personal development from Pam
- FT.com / Companies / US & Canada - FriendFeed openness puts pressure on rivals -
So FriendFeed is taking over the planet - tell me something I didn’t know! it is fast becoming THE aggregator of choice for many people, enabling conversations to take place outside of many “closed” networks. It even seems to work when Twitter doesn’t - which technically could mean that even with 50% uptime, it would still beat twitter 
NOW, it is looking to create its own content by launching Rooms, a way to create original content INSIDE Friendfeed, making it a destination site in its own right (rather than an aggregator).
With frustration growing with Twitter and comments creeping in that Jaiku is a) better and b) more consistently up, could this new feature spell the end for Twitter?
Part of me really hopes so, because i see NO other online app/network treating its loyal customer so consistently badly as Twitter.
Cool stuff I was readingFebruary 29th toMarch 31st:
