Archive for the “Friendfeed” category

Making Friendfeed Better, Part II

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009

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 (…)

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The Many — or Singular? — Problems of Friendfeed

by Tony Hung on July 10, 2009

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 (…)

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Just How Vulnerable Is FriendFeed To Spam?

by Tony Hung on July 14, 2008

So, in a threaded comment-ango on Friendfeed today, I noticed an odd comment by a Friendfeedster that seemed out of place.  So out of place, it almost smelled … blog spammy.  Sure enough, someone (Hutch Carpenter) mentioned that this comment (…)

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On Social Networks, There Are “Friends” And There Are *Friends*

by Tony Hung on March 5, 2008

Steve Hodson, whose Winextra probably doesn’t get the attention that it deserves — it is an excellent blog and you should subscribe to it right now (go on, I’ll wait) — ranted a little on the Friend Economy yesterday and (…)

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