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June 28th, 2008

Tide is changing in microblogging but it isn’t choosing one service over another

Ah Twitter.  The blogerati are raising their glasses to you in homage of your passing.  FriendFeed is standing in the corner being polite, warm, and charming.  At the bar, people are shaking their heads, talking about going to FriendFeed’s place after the wake…
Hold on a second here.  I’m not seeing a huge decline in Tweets, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

May 22nd, 2008

FriendFeed is becoming my "interaction portal"–Begrudgingly becoming addicted to it.

I got into FriendFeed with most of the other bloggerati some time ago.  Frankly, though, I couldn’t get into it.  It was just another thing to have to pay attention to.  Even when Twhirl let me watch my FriendFeed stream and my Twitter stream, I still didn’t grok it.
In the last few days though, I […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

May 21st, 2008

Twitter’s problems, Pownce’s gain or FriendFeed’s opportunity?

Earlier today I say Mark Evan’s ponder getting back into the Pownce habit (which ironically is down/sluggish right now):
I’d really like to use Pownce because it has a richer set of features, including things such as the ability to share files. And while Twitter become the dominant player, Pownce continues to quietly make it ways […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

March 27th, 2008

Why is Twitter winning when it isn’t the best? It’s the swarm and peeps who win out.

Tim Walker and I were chatting on Twitter this morning about Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce.  It started with my question: “How many folks here also update Pownce and Jaiku? Both have fallen off my radar, eventhough both have more features.”
Sure I could update both Pownce and Jaiku through Twhirl, but why?  I don’t go there […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments