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The Death of MySpace

Today, I am deleting my MySpace account. I’ve had it. There is no reason for me to be on there. There is a quote that has been long attributed to Einstein (but no one knows if it was him) that sums up my situation:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different [...]


Twitter, Twitteroo, Twitterrific!

Twitter is the latest craze on the Internet, from the same people who brought us Odeo. The premise of Twitter is that you are constantly answering one simple question: “What are you doing?” It seems everybody has their own description of what Twitter is. I see it as live blogging; it is somewhere between the [...]


likebetter

For the past few minutes, I have been clicking around on likebetter.com. It’s a simple site, where two photos show up and you click the one you like better. By your results, the site tries to determine characteristics about you (e.g. education level, right-handed/left-handed, etc.). I haven’t found it to be incredibly accurate, but it [...]


Panel: Social and Personal Ways of Finding Information

Kevin Rose (digg), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us), Tom Conrad (Pandora), David Porter (Live365), and Neil Hunt (Netflix) discuss their services and the issues surrounding information sharing and discovery. This is from the April 11th BayCHI monthly meeting. Listen to it on the web page or via the BayCHI podcast.
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Flock

Flock is a new web browser for those of us who use social networking tools such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and blogs (such as Wordpress, MovableType, Blogspot, etc.). In fact, the browser pretty much requires you use del.icio.us. It’s pretty hard to justify using the browser without it!
Don’t go switching to Flock just yet though! It’s [...]


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