Follow the leader?

On June 30, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

Seven days into my experiment on Friendfeed, I have begun to see some results. Some  are good, some  are bad. This post is highlighting just one of the negative effects of the experiment. I recently visited rssmeme.com leaderboard, and was shocked to see I am number 4. The experiment has 48 Google Reader shared feeds. [...]

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FriendFeed is becoming the Wikipedia of social networking.

On June 28, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

Friendfeed is rapidly growing from a life streaming content aggregator, to something much bigger then it set it out to be. If you look at the bigger picture, it’s becoming a free online social encyclopedia, or what I would call the Wikipedia of social networking.Franklin Pettit recently blogged about Temperature Taking on Friendfeed. This is [...]

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My thirty eight editors on Friendfeed.

On June 25, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

I’m running a little ongoing experiment using the rooms feature on Friendfeed. Friendfeed recently added the ability to add RSS feeds into rooms. Being a big RSS and Google Reader junkie, I decided to start a room dedicated only to an individual’s Google Reader feed. I posted on Friendfeed asking for people’s Google Shared URL, [...]

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Do you surf the information social highway at work?

On June 21, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

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Do you surf the information social highway at work?
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If you are like me you check in with your various social networks  throughout the day while at work. It’s a daily necessity for us social media connoisseurs to stay constantly connected to our online networks, whether it’s professional or personal. For a lot of us it’s [...]

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You want fries with that website?

On June 18, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

Looking to establish a presence on the Internet?  Whether a corporate/personal website, e-commerce site or blog, the two basic fundamentals that are needed and never change, are a domain name and a good web host. The former needs no explanation, the latter is a different story. We are a society currently living in the Wal-Mart [...]

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Online social networking, time for an intervention?

On June 15, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

Addiction -The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or involved in something.
The question is simple, are you addicted to online social networking e.g. Friendfeed, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and too what extent? Do you obsessively check your multiple social networking sites accounts every hour on the hour or less?  Do you constantly check blogs, [...]

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Robert Scoble noise on Friendfeed – I embrace it.

On June 13, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

I wanted to start off this blog post talking about “noise” on friendfeed. What is noise you ask? The noise level is all relevant to the amount of people you subscribe to. A good example is Robert Scoble. While at first I did not subscribe to him (nothing personal), I do now. Scoble probably has [...]

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View random Flickr streams on Friendfeed.

On June 12, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

The one thing I’m starting to enjoy more and more on Friendfeed is image streams. It definitely  adds color to Friendfeed’s ghostly white background. By using Freindfeed’s public service links, you can tap in to the true power of Flickr. The public Flickr link shows all Flickr streams that are being shared in real time. [...]

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Does this happen to you in Toluu?

On June 12, 2008, in Applications, by Mike Fruchter

Your in Toluu and find a feed you really like. You go to add it not realizing you already have it.
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4 Friendfeed Yahoo Pipes.

On June 11, 2008, in Applications, by Mike Fruchter

4 Friendfeed Yahoo Pipes.
This is for all you stats junkies. New Friendfeed Yahoo pipes courtesy of Tim Hoeck. These pipes will show who comments on your items the most, and who likes your items the most. The other 2 pipes will show, who you like the most and who you comment on most.
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Using FriendFeed to create a private online digital archive.

On June 10, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

With the birth of my daughter Kaylee just 2 weeks ago, this problem surfaced, how do I archive all of her pictures, videos and twitter posts? The two ideas I had were, put all this content online via a cms system such as drupal, or just use a newly created gmail account for picture storage [...]

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The Essential Guide to Social Media.

On June 10, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

The Essential Guide to Social Media – Upload a Document to Scribd

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Read this document on Scribd: The Essential Guide to Social Media
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Do you Toluu? I certainly do!

On June 10, 2008, in Applications, by Mike Fruchter

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My wife peeks by the computer and notices my twitter account open, she asks what do you mean you just Toluu’d? So why not a better time to break it down to her about what Toluu is.  Toluu is a like a supermarket for rss feeds i tell her. Toluu imports your current feeds and [...]

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Cleaning up my Google reader with the help of Toluu.

On June 9, 2008, in Applications, by Mike Fruchter

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The other night I did the deed that I have been putting off for so long. I cleaned out my Google reader account. I deleted everything including the dead weight I set off to, “trim only”. It was refreshing to finally have conquered this task, a true victory indeed. Rebuilding my G reader was the [...]

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FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations.

On June 8, 2008, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

Underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage, you now have links to see the “best of” FriendFeed from the past day, week, or month according to the people you’re subscribed to.
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The results are entirely personalized to you. FriendFeed’s algorithm figures out what content was most interesting in your network based on your friends’ comments [...]

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