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Antisocial Socialites

Dec 1 2009 / 12:38 am Was written by Amber View Comments

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I get it. You want to sound like an authority on something. All the other authorities have said something is dead, but you want to fit in so you swirl the words around in a cup and say it is dead on your blog as well.
That’s lovely.
Now can you shut up [...]

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What Facebook is Really For

Mar 3 2009 / 2:19 am Was written by Amber View Comments

somegreybloke tells us what Facebook is really made for

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Clearsprings Picks Up AddThis

Oct 3 2008 / 4:26 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

AddThis, the most popular tool for bookmarking on websites, has recently been acquired by the leading widget network Clearspring. Separately the companies were doing quite well, together the two pave the way to create a flawlessly integrated system for sharing content.
As is common with many acquistions, this forces any other similar services to step their [...]

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SocialGO = Meh

Aug 21 2008 / 11:20 am Was written by Amber View Comments

It’s actually a shame that I am not thrilled about SocialGO. The user interface is intuitive, the sites are nice looking like Ning but with KickApps functionality.  I had a video uploaded really quickly with no problems — it did limit the video to about a minute.
It did give me a bit of an issue [...]

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Twine Is Not A Toy

Aug 18 2008 / 5:28 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Been playing around with the new kid on the block called Twine. It is supposed to be a semantic web godsend, but its just there.  To simulate the average user wanting to quickly sign in, I did not pick topics for it to classify me. The result was a stream of comments from people beginning [...]

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Jumping Off A Cliff Like Your Friends

Jul 30 2008 / 12:10 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Ok, we all know how much I despise Twitter. And if you do not know, that is very surprising. Me and James have growled about it many times.
Today, I noticed that we were picking up a little bit of traffic from FriendFeed. While I do not hate FriendFeed as much, it is along the same [...]

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Ning, Kickapps and The Completely Free Stuff

Jul 3 2008 / 7:37 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

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Social networks have evolved greatly in the past few years. I find it quite refreshing since they began as a few niche networks that they are working their way back to this model. Back in the origins of Myspace and Bebo and Facebook, many folks signed up to be ahead of the curve [...]

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