3 Reasons Why the Facebook Acquisition of Friendfeed Sucks

It has been a long time since I last posted to my blog. I have been wanting to do regular blogging since I became a full time designer again as a web designer. I didn’t think this was going to be the reason I jumped back in, but it is, so here I go. Today [...]

My First Impressions of the New Friendfeed Beta *Now With Screencast*

New Friendfeed UI Screencap from Mathew Ballard on Vimeo Today, around 11:30 AM EST Friendfeed opened up its new beta UI to the public. And boy did people go crazy over it, both those that liked it and those that seem to hate it. I personally really like it and think that the people behind [...]

Friendfeed, What I Want to See Tomorrow

Friday, on the Ffundercats podcast, I talked a few minutes about the one feature I thought would be a part of the Friendfeed Interface Update tomorrow at 12 PM EST. That feature was Direct Messages. But, then after my time on the show I thought about what feature I would really REALLY like to see [...]

Hudson River Plane Crash Shows the Speed of Social Media

Less than two hours ago a plane crashed into the Hudson River in New York City. And if you don’t know about it then you must not: 1) watch a news channel or website or 2) take part in social networks/social media. Within minutes of the plane crash the news spread across the world like [...]

My Twitter Feed in Wordle Form

So, its been almost a week since I’ve written anything for the blog. Been busying working and I had to spend some time with my girlfriend before she went back to school. Anyways, you don’t want to hear about all that. A couple weeks ago I asked Yuvi, the man behind theStatbot.com, if he would [...]

My Twitter Stats for 2008

Stats, we are all addicted to them especially when they deal with ourseleves. I’ve been spending part of the past week going through my Twitter stats on Tweetstats.com and although some things were predictable there were other trends that I was surprised to see. So, lets begin the journey through the examination of my Twitter [...]

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Me, Twitter and the Massive Amount of New Followers

When I first joined Twitter back in May I never thought that I would be as engrossed into the service as I am now. I certainly never thought that I would have 192 people following my feed at the end of the year. I never set out to gain a ton of followers as I [...]

List Sunday: Top Ten First Time Watched Movies for 2008

This is the last List Sunday of 2008 and what better way to go out then by putting together one of the most typical list around, a top movies list! But, this list has a bit of a twist. Instead of just concentrating on movies that came out this year I’ve comprised this list of [...]

My Social Networking Growth for 2008

2008 has been the year of major social networking growth for me. This year alone I’ve joined Twitter, Friendfeed, Socialmedian, Linkedin (sort of, need to complete my profile), MyBlogLog, played around with Google Friend Connect, created my Google Profile, and joined other little various interesting social networks. To top it all off, in September I [...]

Showing Some Friendfeed Love! II

Once again a new week has brought to me some new great people on Friendfeed. And I wanted to take this time (once again) and space to show off those who have earned a subscription from me. I say earned just because I am very picky as to who I subscribe too. Now on with [...]