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Spokeo and FriendFeed

Popular blogs covering the Web2.0 movement as well the larger web community seem to believe that Spokeo and Friendfeed are competitors. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that Spokeo is about the network while Friendfeed is about the community. Having now used both services for a …

The Universal Filing System?

It struck me that the amount of content that we publish about our lives today on the web is simply staggering. We write down our bigger ideas and thoughts in blogs, twitter the random everyday things, link to the things we like, take photos of places and things we see, …

del.icio.us redesign

It looks like del.icio.us has gone through a small redesign – the top header is now a gray background and the fonts for the entire site have changed (looks like a common serif font, but I can’t place it). I personally think the new look is easier on the eyes. …

The Digg Effect – Corrupted?

Over the last 2 days, a huge controversy has erupted over the apparent super-editorial rights exercised by some Digg administrators to “kill” stories in the digg queue. It started with this article, which pointed out that something was not right in the number of diggs listed for 2 stories. It …

Reworking my Blog To-Do List

So Backpack is one of those websites that’s everywhere when you read about the whole “Web2.0” movement. While I’ve looked it over, I never really got why someone would use Backpack. It finally hit me today that Backpack was probably a better place for me to maintain my blog To-Do …