Archive for May, 2008

Twitter Is Killing Itself, Slowly but Surely

OK, Twitter. It is time to get your act together. FriendFeed is abuzz with talk of Twitter outages. Bloggers are even staging Twit-Out, where they will, for a day, boycott Twitter and use FriendFeed exclusively. Bwana may have started the idea, but it spread quickly because bloggers talk and bloggers dig Twitter.
Twit-Out is today (May [...]

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Who You Surround Yourself With

I am sitting in my hotel room over in Scottsdale, Arizona at the moment. I am here attending a Launch Masters Retreat at Harris Fellman’s pad. We’re talking internet marketing, chowing on food, working the open bar he has set up, riding around in a Hummer stretch limo and basically hanging out.
Yesterday was the first [...]

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Why Do Bloggers Use Mac?

We’ve all been there. We go to a tech conference of some kind. If, for some reason, you wander up to the front of the room and look back, you see a sea of fruit. A bunch of Apple laptops looking back at you with their signature apple logo glowing on the back of the [...]

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The Secret To Production

Here is the big secret. Ready for it?
Go out of town.
Seriously. I am flying to Phoenix early Friday morning. I am losing a regular working day this week (Friday). I have a lot of irons in the fire which means I have a lot to get done before I leave. So, this means I just [...]

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Top 10: Signs You’re Addicted to Twitter and/or FriendFeed

You’re on the FriendFeed website and find yourself refreshing the page rather than waiting for the auto-refresh. F5 is worn out.
You realize you need to turn off Twitter or FriendFeed to get any work done. Problem is, you “realized” that an hour ago, too.
You get overly excited when you get a new follower.
You find yourself [...]

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Google Just Won’t Launch What Matters - To Do List

I saw the story about Google launching Friend Connect. Cool. Yeah, whatever. My question is when are they going to finally plug the gaping hole in their Google Apps package: the to do list.
I am a Google whore. I love the company’s products. They are generally well executed. But, it just floors me that they [...]

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Debating Disqus - Seems Stupid

I’ve thought about it. I checked out Disqus and pondered the idea of using it for this blog. I see that some other bloggers are using it. But, it is a bit of a scary proposition at this point. Why?
I generated some talk in the last couple days about comment fragmention. There are comments on [...]

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No, Links are NOT Dead, Scoble and Gillmore

Yesterday, in the FriendFeed noise pool that I started with my post on FriendFeed, Scoble reacted to my post and ultimately ended up posting a well written response on his blog. That’s great and all, but I noticed (and pointed out to him) that he decided to link to the FriendFeed conversation rather than my [...]

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Why A-List Bloggers Are Like Cats

Think about the metaphor.
I credit Jeremiah Owyang for Twittering this last week and giving me a good laugh. Enjoyed meeting you in Tampa, dude.

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FriendFeed Orgasm - Quick Addition

My last post about FriendFeed unleashed a storm over on FriendFeed. And it drove a whole bunch of new people over here to check out the post. And, yes, I realize the irony.
I want to make a few clarifications.

I have no wish to control the conversation. I’m a blogger and I realize that [...]

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