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Entries for March, 2008

SocialThing: More Than Just A Feed

After being disappointed with friendfeed, you’d think I’d shy away from "lifestreaming" services. Well, you’d be wrong. I am, after all, addicted to anything beta (especially private beta), so if it’s new and shiny, I have to check it out.
So, last night while at the morecheeba concert, I got an invite to socialthing (thx [...]

Dramaturgical Perspective and Social Media Behavior or: The Presentation of Self on Everyday Sites.

There are probably two or three people in the world that would laugh at that title. For the rest of you, I’m sorry.
After posting on friendfeed on Media Bullseye, I started to think about how we manage and control the ways in which we broadcast our identities online. After feeling a bit uncomfortable [...]

SearchMe: I’ll Take My Search Results With Pretty Pictures, Thank You.

Last week I took a look at searchme, a very slick-looking visual search engine. Since then, I’ve used it a handful of times and found it to be fairly useful. Though the results are not as good as google, searchme definitely solves a common problem I run into when searching.
No That’s Not It
Let’s pretend [...]

diigo raises the bar in Social Bookmarking in new release. Wow.

I don’t know where to start. I really don’t. When diigo’s press release said they were launching over 100 new features, I didn’t see how that could be possible. From the release:
This launch includes a completely new UI and code base, and over 100 new features. In addition to substantial improvements in its usability and [...]

Blogstring Pub Crawl Details

It was a tough job, but someone had to do it. Last Saturday I fought my way through the drunken masses to map out the locations for the blogstring.com twitter pub crawl thing. Though not set in stone, here are the times and locations that make the most sense.
1. The Hong Kong
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Blogged.com

Name: Blogged.com Category: Blog Directory Launch Date: February 1, 2008 Founded By: Kenneth Yeh and Gladys Kong Location: Alhambra, CA
What is blogged?
Blogged.com, at first look, is a blog directory. Their tagline is very consumer focused: "find better blogs", [...]

  
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