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Facebook Killed FriendFeed, Google Buzzed it Back From The Grave

On February 14, 2010, in Social Media, by Mike Fruchter

The “Buzz” about Google Buzz is in full swing. Google Buzz is Google’s attempt at social networking and they are definitely making a statement, who it’s directed at is anyone’s guess, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft? Google is no stranger at trying to gain social networking market share, the past tells the story, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Orkut all failed horribly. [...]

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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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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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