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Why Paul Buchheit of GMail and “Don’t Be Evil” fame is dead wrong about blog subscriber measurements
While I dearly appreciate Paul’s contributions to my online life – I’m on GMail and Friendfeed at home, at work, and on the go – I’ve got to disagree with the spirit of his post. Paul’s right in suggesting that I’d be kidding myself if I thought more than a few people were actually reading [...]
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 [...]
E-mail as an Alert System
Let’s wrap up this week of workplace efficiency discussions by looking at what email is becoming for many of us: an alert system. The screenshot above shows my personal email inbox at GMail. A quick glance shows that the majority of the messages are automated alerts from various web services: the [...]
