I had the idea for this post earlier this week when I realized that Twitter's API being broken was causing issues, but we still weren't leaving. Cyndy covered that failure of Twitter users to vote with our feet in her article on Tweeterboard closing, and I touched on it briefly this week when I talked about Twitter telling its own users to access their replies through Summize. In spite of all of this, we aren't leaving -
As mobile social platforms are sort of a pet hobby of mine, I'm keen to learn about any and every update to the platforms that are currently vying for consumers' affections. One such competitor is FriendFeed, which has a very fluid little build of its social aggregator platform available to iPhone users.
That platform just received an update, and things are looking good. MG Seigler over at Venture Beat was able to try out the updated platform;
Tweetscan. Summize. Twellow. Twhirl.
Four application names that have sprung out of dozens, if not hundreds, of applications built on top of the application everyone loves to hate: Twitter.
Everyone knows the Fail Whale. Everyone threatens to jump ship, signing up for whatever new and shiny "Twitter killer" comes along. Yet there Twitter is, warts and all, up and down all day, and taking all the associated apps along with it, while users are
StartUpArabia alerted me to a cool tool called Feedoor, a feed management tool launched last year. Feedoor allows users to edit feeds, filter them, and create new feeds based on mash-ups of multiple feeds and filters.
Feedoor may be the ultimate in vanity tools if they can just get the filtering right. By creating a new feed, you can add any feeds you want and create one huge feed. Want everything under the Denton umbrella? Add Valleywag,
It is no surprise that once the blogosphere finds a fascination in something, more and more people will see this as an inspiration to create mashups based on our latest and greatest tools. And since FriendFeed is still one of the most discussed topics (especially on FriendFeed itself), it is no wonder that we will see more and more mashups in the coming weeks (or maybe months even, not sure about years).
Today's find is FriendFeed Spy
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