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.

Google Reader Enhances Social Features

Just a few days ago, Google Reader launched a few features that make it just a little more social. Powered by Google Profiles, these new features make it easy to find like-minded people to engage with. It’s also a lot simpler to share items. While Google Reader is probably one of the most popular RSS feed readers around, it has also been difficult or confusing to do certain things with it until now.

Tech Week In Review for July 3rd

FriendFeed Adds 3 New Features I don’t know how those FriendFeed guys do it, but it seems like they add a new feature every other day. Here is what they’ve added recently: Real-time Search – We all know FriendFeed operates in real-time. New items slide up to the top of the page right before your [...]

Tech Week In Review for June 26th

You can now share files on FriendFeed Items on FriendFeed that get the most action are those with photos. They help to engage the viewer by standing out against a wall of text. Now, FriendFeed has activated file sharing, which allows you to upload just about any file you’d like. This has serious implications for [...]