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mytweetsense Makes Twitter Relevant, Personal and Mobile
When you follow as many people as I do on Twitter and other social networks, there is clearly the potential to feel as if you are going to miss something if you are not continuously connected. The sheer waterfall of information rushing into your Twit...
Video: LeWeb Twitter Apps Panel via UStream
This morning, I moderated a panel on Twitter Applications, at LeWeb, featuring:Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeckLaura Fitton oneforty Barak Hachamov, My6sense Marco Kaiser, Seesmic Sean McCullough, Ping.fmDaryll McDade, Microsoft Mario Menti, TwitterfeedThe ...
Lazyfeed Real-time Topical RSS Preps Multi-Column Revamp
Lazyfeed's real-time discovery engine for following topics has been among my favorite services to debut this year. The service has made following terms I am interested in, and getting live updates as they pour in, very simple - helping me to further ...
BackType Feeds Partners Faster, Thanks to PubSubHubbub
BackType, the most robust and feature-rich comments tracker on the Web, has expanded its services over the last few months to include a number of new items, including the launch of BackTweets, to find shared links on the microblogging service, a Twee...
BackType Feeds Partners Faster, Thanks to PubSubHubbub
BackType, the most robust and feature-rich comments tracker on the Web, has expanded its services over the last few months to include a number of new items, including the launch of BackTweets, to find shared links on the microblogging service, a Twee...
my6sense Update Adds Time Filters, Social Enhancements
At the end of last week, my6sense, an iPhone application focused on digital intuition, helping you reduce information overload through focusing on content most relevant to you, introduced version 1.1 of their service to the iTunes application store. ...
my6sense Update Adds Time Filters, Social Enhancements
At the end of last week, my6sense, an iPhone application focused on digital intuition, helping you reduce information overload through focusing on content most relevant to you, introduced version 1.1 of their service to the iTunes application store. ...
Listiti Watches Twitter Lists for Keywords and Alerts
Regardless of where you sit in the RSS vs. Twitter debate for information discovery, you know the power of finding out when people are discussing topics of your interest, wherever they do so - be it on blogs, blog comments, social networks or anywher...
Why I Wouldn\'t Accept $25k To Stop Using Google Reader
Cross-Posted on my Ecademy Blog and Shared HereInformation is power - and the ability to take in more information more quickly than anybody else, all in one place, is an incredible power. The Web has been built to enable all of us to share and distri...
Can Twitter Replace RSS for Sharing the Best of the Web?
On Monday, early adopter and Web provocateur Robert Scoble suggested that my use of Google Reader to share the best of the tech Web each day was antiquated. In fact, he called Reader "a dead product" compared to Twitter, which he believes will grow i...
BlogWorld Expo 2009: The State of Technology & the Real Time Web
For the third time this year, I am back in Las Vegas. And per usual, I'm not here for anything resembling a vacation, as it's conference time. But instead of attending an event on behalf of a specific company, as I have done many different times, I a...
Why And Where We Share: Distributing Quality With Impact, Intent
Regardless of whether you first came in contact with my content here, or through other streams, you know that the vast majority of my online life has to do with the creation, filtering and distribution of information. In addition to authoring new sto...
Feedly Explore Highlights Recommended Blogs, Reader Activity
For the past year, Feedly has been working to improve its overlay for Google Reader, presenting a more visual approach to feeds in a magazine-like format, essentially becoming a personalized start page, powered by RSS. As Google Reader has evolved, a...
Real-time Google Reader Shares to Twitter - There's An App for That.
For many people, Twitter is as much about the links you share as it is about the discussions that ensue in the microblogging community. For that reason, tools that automate posts to Twitter via RSS are among the most popular Twitter clients in use. W...
No More Beta Codes: Lazyfeed Is Open for Everyone
Almost two months ago, we first introduced Lazyfeed, a real-time blog search and feeds engine, which has grown to be a big part of my information gathering process, following topics which I like, rather than people, or specific RSS feeds. The product...
Conversations on Google Reader Shared Items Are Booming
For the world's leading RSS reader, integrating social functions hasn't always been drop-dead simple and easy. With each new addition, be it the recent "Send To" features, the addition of "likes", or the ability to selectively enable friends to make ...
Lazyfeed Adds Sharing Options to Real-time Blog Discovery Engine
As Lazyfeed inches closer to being open to the public, the real-time topic-based blog discovery engine has been listening to feedback from its beta users - many of whom had hoped there were more social elements from the potential feed reader replacem...
Google Reader Wants Me to Send My Shares Everywhere
My favorite RSS feed reader and jumping off point for information discovery and sharing, Google Reader, has caught the social bug. Fresh off their big push last month that saw a spike in the number of people exchanging shared items and finding contac...
Favorit Shuts Down As Company's Focus Turns to TweetMeme
At one time, I thought Favorit was going to be the application that weaned me from Google Reader to consume all my RSS feeds. After Robert Scoble speculated it could be a serious challenger, thanks in part due to aggressive pitching from its author, ...
PubSubHubbub Hits the Gas On My Google Reader Link Blog
In terms of sheer volume, there is little I do more online every day than share Google Reader items. According to my Google Reader trends statistics, I have shared 743 separate items in the last 30 days, at a rate of just under 25 a day, including we...
RSS Is Doing Great, But Stand-Alone Feed Readers Are Collapsing
Three years in technology can be an eternity. I marvel that just over three years ago, I was telling you that "RSS Is a Demanding Mistress", showing off a screen capture of my NetNewswire application, powered by Newsgator. At the time, as I complaine...
My6sense: An iPhone App for Feeds, With Digital Intuition Built-in
The concept of information overload has been much-debated. Practically everyone, with myself being a rare exception, says they are overwhelmed by the amount of data that is flowing their way. Decisions need to be made in terms of what to read, where ...
Video Demo: How to Use Lazyfeed for Real-time RSS Feeds By Topic
Ever since Lazyfeed's debut two weeks ago, I have been a frequent user of one of the more innovative tools to hit the worlds of realtime Web and information discovery - two of my favorite topics. Many people, getting acquainted with the service, have...
Guzzle It: The RSS-Powered Personalized Site With A Unique Name
The Web has moved away from one built around stale Web sites that treat you like any other visitor. Now, practically every leading site features personalization, giving you customized news sources, social aspects, and increasingly, the option to choo...
Google Reader "Likes" Find the More Shy Blog Readers
Since Google Reader introduced new social aspects to their popular RSS reader last Wednesday, there have been a number of reactions to the additions - most specifically around their introduction of a "like" feature, enabling readers to essentially gi...
My AllTop On My iPhone: A New Way to Consume RSS?
In March, when Guy Kawasaki's AllTop service introduced the ability to customize pages to include personalized feeds, I finally dove in and checked it out after years of ignoring the product. This weekend, Guy followed up and let me know that the tea...
TweetMeme Rolls Out RSS and E-mail Buttons, Statistics
As promised earlier this month, TweetMeme, the leading site tracking the most popular shared links on Twitter, has introduced a number of new tools that help publishers and bloggers encourage readers to distribute their stories through the popular mi...
PubSubHubbub: Real-Time Feeds and Real-Time Feedback Too?
Getting data from one place to another can never be too fast. Just a year or two ago, the speed of RSS was considered excellent, but now, with latency of RSS feeds getting to destinations such as Google Reader or other networks ranging from minutes t...
What Is This Real-Time Thing, And Where Is It Going?
The final panel at Friday's CrunchUp focused on the phenomenon of real-time, featuring a high-profile panel complete with representatives from Google, Microsoft, TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Seesmic, FriendFeed, Stanford University and a pair of venture cap...
Lazyfeed Poised to Debut Real-time Personalized Blog Search
The overwhelming majority of attention and innovation in the world of real-time search in the last year has been paid to microblogging, with Twitter and FriendFeed making most of the headlines. But a new tool, set to debut in the next two days, calle...
