Application programming interface
Three Reasons To Be Excited About Facebook’s Acquisition Of Friendfeed
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Thanks to yesterday’s news of a $50M acquisition we can be sure that Friendfeed’s excellent ideas are finally going to be seen and appreciated by the mainstream web users on Facebook. While many of the FriendFeed faithful are nervous about the coming assimilation, there are still plenty of reasons to be happy [...]
Six months later, FriendFeed grabs the team microblogging grail
It’s been just under six months since FriendFeed launched their first real time updating features. At the time I was characteristically excited about the possibilities, noting that
twitter-style @replies to individual users and direct messages to individual users … are all it would take to push FriendFeed over the hump in the enterprise market. - Sharing at [...]
Drive Growth With Sticky Conversations
Have you ever left a comment on a site without knowing if the intended recipient would ever see it? Do you find yourself making the same points over and over again in different conversations? Do you have trouble telling people apart online or remembering your favorite contributors? These are some of the problems addressed by [...]
WidgetLaboratory Continues to Air Ning’s Secrets
Third-party application developer WidgetLaboratory has taken their ongoing battle with social networking platform Ning one step further by posting the final few days worth of email conversation before the two companies broke off negotiations.
These emails are a fascinating look under the covers of what’s clearly been a very tense week for both organizations. Following [...]
