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The RSS Market Is in Disarray but the Technology Is Here to Stay

For the past months and seeing some resurgence lately, RSS as a medium for consuming and discovering news and other content has been pretty much left for dead, with everyone claiming that Twitter and for a while FriendFeed replaced to a certain degree by Facebook now are all much better and faster ways of getting th...

23 December 2009
09:42 GMT

FriendFeed Is the Testing Ground for the Upcoming OAuth WRAP Protocol

Online identity is one of the biggest themes on the web today and a number of providers, most notably Facebook and Google, are battling it out to become the most powerful player in the field. On the other hand, there is a great tendency towards integration and interoperability between various web services. One incre...

22 December 2009
10:41 GMT

FriendFeed Cofounder Not Giving Up on the Service Yet

The chatter is once again picking up around FriendFeed, the real-time social aggregator Facebook acquired a couple of months ago. At the time of the deal many were left wondering about the fate of the service which, despite not becoming as successful as hoped, managed to secure a core of loyal users and to stay ahead...

20 October 2009
09:59 GMT

FriendFeed Open-Sources Internal Tornado Framework

Since Facebook acquired FriendFeed last month, everyone has been wondering what's going to happen to the service and the technology behind it. Many were speculating that Facebook will incorporate some components at some point, or at least some feature. But no one really expected Facebook to open-source an import...

11 September 2009
08:54 GMT

Facebook Introduces a New Share Dialog

Sharing is an important component of every social service and it's understandably important for Facebook as well. Thanks to its 250 million users, the social network sees over one billion items shared among friends and with the world each week. Still, it could do a lot better, especially considering Twitter'...

2 September 2009
10:15 GMT

Benchmark Gets a Small Stake in Facebook with FriendFeed Acquisition

Facebook acquired FriendFeed on Monday, causing quite a bit of stir in the media but also among FriendFeed users. While some numbers were speculated, the actual value of the transaction wasn't specified. The Wall Street Journal claimed the deal was worth $47.5 million, with $15 million in cash and the rest in Fa...

14 August 2009
06:28 GMT

Facebook Tests Faster, 'Lite' Version of the Site

While there have been plenty of steps and signs that the social networking site is slowly morphing into “Twitter with profiles," the new Facebook Lite, which some lucky random users got to test these past days, is as clear as it gets. The new design is, as the name would imply, a simplified version of the site,...

12 August 2009
05:49 GMT

Delicious Creator Launches Demo Threaded Twitter Conversation Site

Twitter is known and loved for its simplicity but the site creators' reluctance to add new features does have its drawbacks. One functionality that could have a significant impact is threaded conversations, something that Twitter doesn't currently support, forcing users to resort to all sorts of workarounds...

11 August 2009
08:27 GMT

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

In a move that makes a lot of sense for Facebook, the social networking giant has acquired up-and-coming social aggregator FriendFeed, which has been at the forefront of innovation in social media since it was founded in 2007. The financial terms weren't disclosed but the Wall Street Journal claims it was a $50 ...

11 August 2009
02:52 GMT

Redux Reveals a New Way to Discover Online Video

The social media market is one of the most crowded but it doesn't stop many from launching new products, most bound to fail. Any product that plans to survive will have to bring something new, and, more importantly, something that has actual value and usability and sets it apart from similar services. Redux, a n...

31 July 2009
10:23 GMT

Facebook Bug Posts All Tweets to Users' Wall

A Facebook issue affected a number of users a few hours ago as they started seeing their posts on Twitter or Friendfeed automatically posted on their Facebook Wall as well. Anyone with the Twitter or Friendfeed apps for Facebook installed was hit by the problem but it has since been fixed. “Earlier this eveni...

30 July 2009
04:21 GMT

FriendFeed Antes Up with Real-Time Search

Everyone is talking about real-time search and everyone is getting into real-time search. Google just added some related features to its Blog Search and now FriendFeed, half social network half social news aggregator, launches a new real-time search feature. The site has been recently re-designed to automatically sho...

3 July 2009
03:42 GMT

New RSS Software Solutions for Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile phone users who were looking for new RSS software solutions for their handsets can now enjoy two new applications, YomoMedia, and Friendfeed, which has just gone into Beta. As there are not too many RSS solutions for mobile phones available out there, these two might prove to be rather useful to most W...

15 June 2009
06:35 GMT

New TV Show Based on FriendFeed

In a strange twist of events it seems everyone online now wants to be on TV and not the other way around as it has been for years. First there were rumors of a Twitter TV show, which the website confirmed but had no direct involvement in, and now it's time for another social network to be headed to the big scree...

5 June 2009
10:45 GMT


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