Bob Morris Posted on Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:23 am. Tags: Facebook, friendfeed, Google Profile, Posterous, twitter, WP to Twitter
How to get your blog content onto Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed using free services. I had been using the excellent and free Twitterfeed to autopost to Twitter but just switched to WP to Twitter, a WordPress plugin. Here’s why. Twitterfeed reads the Polizeros RSS feed and takes about first 120 characters of new posts, adds [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Aug 19, 2009 0:26 am. Tags: Facebook, friendfeed, Google, twitter
Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance Facebook buys Friendfeed. Their real target is Google, not Twitter. Twitter vs. Facebook: Who will win in real-time search? Comparison of their search engine features. Because it’s all about search. Real-time search. Google doesn’t have that yet. Facebook now has 300 million users and [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Aug 10, 2009 16:00 pm. Tags: Facebook, friendfeed
This is Facebook firing a shot at Google, not at Twitter. Twitter is mere collateral damage but Facebook knows the real money in real time is in search. FriendFeed has real time search. Google does not (although it’s bootstrapping there very fast, some of my FriendFeed items are showing up in Google within seconds now). [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Aug 10, 2009 14:00 pm. Tags: Facebook, friendfeed
This is huge. Even if no one quite know what it means yet. Facebook says they do not want to disrupt FriendFeed, plan to incorporate FriendFeed ideas into Facebook, and then maybe look at integrating them.
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Jul 2, 2009 5:30 am. Tags: Facebook, friendfeed, lifestreams, social networking, twitter
Problogger responds to the “Is blogging dead” meme that Steve Rubel and others have been posting about. I get the sense from a lot of bloggers that they feel that they’re being left behind – that all this new stuff that is emerging is beyond them – that it’s hopeless to keep on blogging. My [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Jul 1, 2009 5:30 am. Tags: Facebook, friendfeed, lifestreams, social networking, twitter
Feedburner. Make your RSS feed highly useful Use Google Feedburner for your main feed and comments feed. RSS is how content moves around the web. You don’t have to understand RSS to use it, as setting it up is easy. Lots of people, including me, read much of their news in a RSS Reader rather [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:36 am. Tags: Facebook, friendfeed, lifestreams, Posterous, twitter
Jon Buscall So Steve Rubel has dumped blogging for lifestreaming. Charles Arthur at The Guardian also notes that participation on Twitter and Facebook is replacing blogging. Whilst I’ve noticed some of my favourite bloggers aren’t posting as frequently as usual, my own take on this is simple: don’t abandon your blog – just yet. The [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Mar 19, 2008 20:15 pm. Tags: friendfeed
FriendFeed will aggregates your multiple social networking sites into one feed, plus it tracks what your friends are doing. You can link blogs, Twitter, Youtube, Amazon wish lists, Google Reader shared items, Digg, and more into your FriendFeed feed. I’m polizeros on FriendFeed.
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