Monthly Archives: July 2009

Making Friendfeed Better, Part II

Friendfeed needs powerful friends (read: friends with tons of friends, wealthy friends, powerful friends, friends with access).  They could do a lot worse than Thomas Hawk, Zooomr-evangelist, and gigantic Flickr Fan, who suggests a lot more engagement with Flickr Fans everywhere.
I like this idea:
Best of Day Flickr. FriendFeed needs a page where they show the [...]

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On Using Twitter For Corporate Marketing

It appears as though some institutions are using interns to man their Twitter stations, as picked up by the Big Money Blog at Slate.com — Pizza Hut, in particular has had some success with their own intern: she’s grown their subscribership from 3000 to 13000 and has managed a 4th of July promotion.
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Google OS’s Hardware Strategy?

Perhaps the key to Google OS’s success is in this key statement that might have been overlooked yesterday:
Messrs. Schmidt and Page were also careful not to position Chrome as a competitor to Microsoft Windows. They argued that Chrome will expand the market for netbooks, rather than eating into Windows’ share of the netbook market.
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Army Using Video Games To Fight Smoking Addiction

And there’s spending almost $4 million dollars to produce a game that will likely surface in 2013.  You know, I almost pooh-pooh’d this particular fact until I read this piece in Scientific American about how a similar program aimed at younger demographic actually lead to half of that program’s participants (239 in number) to quit. [...]

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The Many — or Singular? — Problems of Friendfeed

The most prolific Friendfeeder of them all (to give you an idea of how Robert-Scoble-as-lifestreamer >> Scoble-as-blogger, just look at the number of comments on his Friendfeed vs. Blog … currently a ratio of 10:1 as of this writing) gives the low-down, which includes the lack of people needing an aggregator, how it sucks on [...]

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A Bit of a Personal Update

Just a bit of a personal update.  About a week ago, I finished my medical training.  I’m now fully qualified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care.  Its culminated about 27 years of schooling, 15 of which has been post-secondary.  Whew!   I’m taking some time off in advance of some “real” work later in the [...]

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Bing Bigger Than Digg? Twitter? Not Quite.

Ben Parr at Mashable says Bing, Microsoft’s latest search engine offering, is doing well.  So well, in fact, that its bigger than Digg, Twitter and CNN.

But none of that matters if Bing doesn’t grow and find a way to compete with Google . So after a month, where are we? We knew that Bing was growing, but [...]

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