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How FriendFeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

April 10, 2008

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FriendFeed has been out for just a few months and has already established itself as a solid startup with an indefinite amount of potential. Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web.

Currently, FriendFeed supports the following social networks and tools:

FriendFeed Services

FriendFeed aggregates social news sites (Digg, Google Reader Shared Items, Mixx, and Reddit), social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us, Furl, Google Shared stuff, Ma.gnolia, and StumbleUpon), status updates (Gmail/Google Talk, Jaiku, Pownce, and Twitter), video (Seesmic, Vimeo, and YouTube), photos (from Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, and Zoomr), music (from iLike, Last.fm, and Pandora), books (GoodReads and LibraryThing), other miscellaneous web services (Amazon Wishlists, Disqus, LinkedIn, your Netflix Queue, Netvibes, SlideShare, Upcoming events, and Yelp), and finally, your own blog or Tumblr. For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you.

FriendFeed: The Service and What it Offers

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College Statistics 2006: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Google!

December 1, 2006

According to the 2006 GenX2Z Anderson Analytics survey (PDF link), the top five websites of choice by college students are:

Googleplex Hotness

  1. MySpace (13% of visits, a 258% increase from 2005)
  2. facebook.com (11.5%, a 41% increase from 2005)
  3. youtube.com (4.5%, with no data from 2005 recorded)
  4. collegehumor.com (3.7%, a 61% decrease from 2005)
  5. Google.com (3.7%, a 13% decrease from 2005)

That puts Google, Inc. in two of the top ten spots, making any community-oriented website envious of the search engine that also seems to be faring quite well in social networking too.

Does it come as any surprise that Google is the employer of choice by college students? According to another recent survey on CollegeGrad.com, almost half — 49% — of students would rather work at Google than Microsoft (29%) or Yahoo (12%).

Could they score a job? Maybe, if Google really is getting easier on hiring.

So — why do college students want to work at Google?Google Ping-Pong

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Watch What You Say Anywhere: People are Reading … and Watching

November 29, 2006

Fired Through FacebookNothing is secret anymore. Unfortunately for Robert Scoble, whose private correspondence was aired on a blog, we are beginning to slowly learn that anything could potentially become public knowledge.

Okay, well, Robert Scoble’s experience is on the far extreme end of things. The blogger who brought Robert’s private correspondence into the light was acting not only unethically but did something that the blogosphere considers extremely socially awkward.

Despite this, people are learning more about you, no matter what you do, and your life isn’t necessarily private anymore. Blogs are mediums for people to talk. Some people will talk with integrity, with professionalism. Others will just try to instigate, obviously not caring too much about the people who are affected. (Interestingly enough, the individual who posted to the PodCamp NYC blog about Robert didn’t identify himself; he posted instead as “podcastnyc.net”. He had the courage to write a completely inappropriate blog post but he didn’t have the courage to go all the way and use his own name. Sad.)

Blogs are just one part of the picture. The other part isn’t exactly the latest in news: your Facebook and MySpace profiles aren’t secret either. It could cost you a job offer. It can tarnish a good reputation when you flaunt characteristics that are atypical of the model employee.

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Domain Name Confusion and Monetary Losses

November 6, 2006

UTube is not YouTubeBefore there was the Internet, there were mis-dialed phone numbers, which in turn wasted people’s time and money when they realized they were not the intended recipient of those phone calls.

As more and more people continue to cash in and use the Internet for their own benefit, more and more people will make those silly mistakes and mistype domain names, just like they’d have done if they dialed the wrong number.

Mistakes of this type happen often. Humans are ignorant and fallible.

The difference is often more costly on the Internet because bandwidth and server resources are not cheap, especially for thousands of simultaneous visitors.

It is no wonder that UTube.com (Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation) has decided to sue YouTube due to its excessive exposure during (and even after) the Google acquisition. Since Google and YouTube announced their alliance, Universal Tube has complained that it has been receiving over 70,000 unique visits per day, which has increased its bandwidth costs (previously at $100, now at $2500) and has caused the server to crash on multiple occasions.

TheSmokingGun has obtained copies of interesting communication that was sent through the pipe company’s “Contact Us” form, including the ironic one from “chesy cheese” that says

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Google acquires JotSpot, Wired/Conde Nast acquires Reddit

October 31, 2006

In the world of acquisitions, it ain’t over. Today, Google acquired Jotspot and Wired Digital acquired Reddit.

I’ve never used Jotspot, but Reddit has been a pretty useful tool.

It’s interesting to note this after reading Inside Facebook, a 46 page book that was available briefly to TechCrunch readers in its entirety last week (it now costs $12). Karel Baloun, the author, noted within the book that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, hasn’t had the desire to be acquired. On the other hand, Steve of YouTube was waiting for it.

It makes me wonder how many companies are out there with the intention to build a functional site with significant membership base with the goal that they will be bought out by a bigger and better company. After all, the bigger arm of these companies provides greater security with added benefits.

I wouldn’t complain if my product (whatever that may be) was bought out by the leaders of the industry, that’s for sure.

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