Real-time social wars: where's the money? - scobleizer's posterous. Friendfeed Brings "Best of Day" to Lists, Helps You Spot Trends from Friends - The Steve Rubel Lifestream. The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies. Today I am re-launching my Tumblr site with a new name, a new focus and a new format.
It all kicks off today with a 15-page installment of The Clip Report. Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now* « I’m Not Actually a Geek. May 26, 2009 by Hutch Carpenter FriendFeed has got to be one of the most innovative companies around these days. It seems every week, it’s hatched something new with its service. That alone makes it worth being there. Then there’s the interactions. When those are rocking and rolling, it’s a lot of fun. Even a few Likes and comments are worth the experience. I’ve got three reasons you should be on FriendFeed now. The FriendFeed triple play. #1: Google Juice You likely know the background of much of the FriendFeed team – Google. So it comes as no surprise that FriendFeed can rank pretty highly in Google search results.
Alex Scoble (yes, Robert’s brother) is planning his wedding reception. Well, check out what a search on the Center’s name returns: Alex’s FriendFeed entry is the #6 result. Not something that Center wants in their search results, but a great way for Alex to let others know about his experience with the Center. FriendFeed shows up #3 on a search of my own name. Here’s an example. Blog Archive » Bret Taylor & Paul Buchheit - Co-Founders, FriendFeed. The New FriendFeed Looks A Lot Like Twitter. FriendFeedFriendFeed reviews has rolled out a new optional beta today, featuring a cleaner real-time interface, plus some much requested features like the ability to send people a direct message.
My first reaction to it (which you can access at beta.friendfeed.com): it feels a lot like a web-based TwitterTwitter reviews client, with the added goodness of seeing your friend’s activities from the dozens of different services that FriendFeed supports. Your FriendFeed homepage now includes a box to post an update, with the option to cc it to Twitter. This functionality existed previously, but required you to click Post > Message in the old interface. Below this new update box – much like on Twitter – you see your friend’s most recent activities, with one big difference: they update in real-time on the page, without refreshing. In addition to seeing your friends’ updates stream in, you’ll actually see comments and “likes” as they happen, in real-time.
FriendFeed Beta The "Old" FriendFeed. CoverItLive Now Lets You Add Qik Mobile Video to Your Live Blogs. Live-blogging toolCoverItLive has released an upgrade this week that is truly helpful for bloggers in the social media space. If you've got one of those handy phones that supports Qik, or you do live video blogging with Mogulus or ustream, you can now drop your feeds into your CoverItLive window and broadcast it to the world, along with your live blogging coverage. This builds on CoverItLive's existing option for dropping a YouTube video into your CoverItLive window, though the formatting has been improved (with the video appearing in the top right corner of the window) and users can expand the video with a separate window if they'd like.
The major benefit of being able to include these videos into your live blogging coverage is the streamlining for the blogging multi-tasker, which is what CoverItLive has always been good at. Why Twitter Doesn't Need To Worry About FriendFeed.