FriendFeed is a great service for finding and sharing information and generating discussions. However, not all users are equal when it comes to their level of participation. I’ll show you what I mean by looking by looking at where comments are being made and what their objectives are.
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Tags: community, conversation, friendfeed, Social MediaDisqus, IntenseDebate, and SezWho. 3 commenting systems that currently don’t work together, but here’s how they could.
Continue reading ‘Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future’
Tags: blog, Blogging, conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, sezwho, shyftr, Social Media
Firefox is a huge part of what I do as a web designer (aka Pixel Pimp) and a Social Media Skank. Along the way I’ve gone through my fair share of crappy addons while keeping the ones I found most helpful. Here’s a list of the 18 addons I’ve kept around; hopefully you can find them useful as well.
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Tags: firefox, productivity, Social Media, web design
Just when you thought this topic was dead, I’m here to drudge it back up again. I’ve attempted to analyze my commenting behaviour; I want to explain the situations in which I’m more likely to comment on original blog posts versus on FriendFeed.
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Tags: conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, Social Media
A lot is still being made of the discussions happening in FriendFeed that some feel should belong on the actual post. Recently, the discussion over "fragmented comments" has been revived in posts from Fred Wilson, Matthew Ingram, and Allen Stern. Allen suggests that when FriendFeeders see the content, they should go back to the original post, comment there, and then have their comment pulled back into FriendFeed. I still don’t agree with centralizing comments on the blog post or any one place, and here’s why:
Continue reading ‘The Case For Distributed Conversations’
Tags: blog, Blogging, conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, Social Media, yacktrack
Marshall McLuhan (a Canadian) coined the phrase "the medium is the message" to describe that the profound impact of television and other media on society was more important than the impact of the content itself. Recently, a lot of discussion has been taking place about FriendFeed’s noise versus its signal. I contend that the impact that FriendFeed has on the Social Web is greater than that of the content it aggregates. Excuse me as I coyly coin the phrase: “FriendFeed is the signal.”
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Tags: advertising, Business, community, conversation, friendfeed, Social Media
