From a (sort of) recent Facebook status update: While I agree for the most part with the “Tumblr > Twitter” sentiment, well, that’s kind of obvious. Twitter is definitely good for some things (mostly sharing short fleeting thoughts, but also sometimes for sharing links, and conversing with people who use Twitter as their main form [...]
Tagged Blogging, Diatribes, RSS, Social web, Tumblr, Twitteror: The True Power of RSS On the same day when TechCrunch delivered this piece on the Internet as Robin Hood, I also realized how irrelevant “old media” and/or “the establishment” has become to me personally. What brought me to this realization before I even looked at the TechCrunch article? Vajazzle I am going to [...]
Tagged Basketbawful, Jennifer Love Hewitt, New Media, Newspaper, RSS, VajazzleFrom Read/Write Web. I just still feel like I’m missing something. I can’t get past the fact that Twitter is not a feed reader, yet people insist on using it as one. I mean, if I were following all the people whose feeds I read on Twitter instead of using Google Reader, I don’t feel [...]
Tagged Diatribes, RSS, TwitterTechCrunch ran a post about Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed despite multiple, long outages in its short existence. Here’s the money quote (for me): Twitter has a simple premise: You tweet & the message is pushed to your friends. The actual mechanics are slightly different (messages go to everyone who follows you, whether they’re your “friends” [...]
Yes, I know they have added a Status Feed, and a Notes Feed. But all that really demonstrates is that we know that they can produce RSS feeds. The easy way out is to boil it down to money. My guess is, Facebook wants their millions of users to see the ads that Microsoft paid [...]