Getting Started with Yahoo Meme

Getting Things Done

Meme is a Tumblr-like service recently launched by Yahoo. Many have called it a Twitter clone, but the similarities are pretty minimal. The only things they share are those basic features you would find with any microblogging service. Meme is basically a blog where you can post random stuff. There is no 140-character limit, but you probably wouldn’t want to use it for lengthy blog posts.

FriendBinder Puts All Your Friends in One Place

FriendBinder is a service that has been in closed beta for over a year now. At first glance, it’s just another social aggregator like FriendFeed, but a closer look shows that they’re headed in a slightly different direction. Your average aggregator just pulls in your activity from a bunch of different sources. Most operate just like FriendFeed, providing minimal interaction between the source and the actual aggregator service. For example, FriendFeed pulls in your Facebook items, but you can’t Like or Comment those items and have those likes and comments show up back on Facebook.

Tech Week In Review 8-14-09

Tech Week In Review

Is Facebook Destroying Our Relationships?

As if we didn’t have enough relationship problems, looks like Facebook causes you even more grief. According to a recent study, many of us just seem to act a little stalkerish online. The four main causes for this jealousy?

FriendBook? FaceFeed? Facebook Aquires FriendFeed

In a surprise announcement to many FriendFeed users, Facebook has aquired FriendFeed. Many FF users are absolutely devastated. FriendFeed provided somewhat of a middle-ground between Twitter’s absolute bare-bones status updates and Facebook’s full-on walled-garden social network. While most Facebook users will be completely indifferent to this announcement, FriendFeed users  have mixed feelings. Ex-Googlers Paul Bucheit, [...]

Let the Realtime Web Find You with Lazyfeed

Lazyfeed is an web appliction that helps you discover new stuff. You tell it what you like by connecting it to sites you’re already interested in or by asking the simple question, “What interests you?” Lazyfeed is an aggregator, kind of like FriendFeed, but it works in a slightly different manner. Instead of finding content based on where it came from, you discover things based on topics and tags.