Over The Counter Culture

Staring at the sun
Latest Posts »
Popular »
» Getting a cutting edge Android smartphone for £85
» Vast EU research grant fraud uncovered, millions lost
» Stewart Brand, on viruses and the scale of things
» UK government amends data protection and cookies law
» Adam Curtis Greencine interview on media elitism, the US and the UK
» NSFW: Oklahoma judge used penis pump during trials
» The Fred Wilson Effect: the benefits of open conversations online
» The Facebook Data Protection Act letter
« Hyperefficient solar panels
Eliza Doolittle »

ReadWriteWeb totally nails conversation fragmentation – FriendFeed the huge beneficiary

I hate echoing big ‘Web 2.0′ stories on this blog as they inevitably get overprocessed everywhere else – I use Twitter for my 2 cents on these types of stories if I have to, but Twitter’s down right now

Read/WriteWeb anoints FriendFeed king of the future web – using it to centralise all the conversations sparked by their posts – and nails Disqus and Twitter in one fell swoop. If other sites follow suit – and this is indeed quite a compelling course of action – this is pretty unfortunate news for Fred Wilson and the other good folk at Union Square Ventures, who have put a fair bit of money into the latter two.

Bookmark/Share:

Related:

The Fred Wilson effect (a.k.a: social networking dividend of an open, public conversation)
Last week made my head spin. As I continue with my biochemistry degree, I spectate the new media sphere as it twists and turns; I occasionally pass comment on it, either on this blog, on twitter, or in some other forum, for example, the comments sections of other sites. I happened to leave a couple [...]...
Conversation platforms will make blogs increasingly redundant
There are many reasons why people blog. Some, like mine, are experiments in self-expression and a historical log of experiences, opinions and discoveries of personal interest. They’re (primarily text-based) pedestals for the development of a digital ‘sculpture’ of your identity. Visitors are attracted both to explore your unique identity and points of view, and to [...]...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008 at 2:37 am and is filed under Musings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  • Home
  • About
  • List all posts
  • Current Reading
  • Search

Over The Counter Culture is proudly powered by WordPress
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).