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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

April 2nd, 2008

New BuddyPress site launched as part of Automattic

A month ago BuddyPress was acquired by Automattic and today the new BuddyPress website was launched:

Right now BuddyPress is still in development,  but you can download the latest BuddyPress builds through SVN if you’re game.
Is this a game changer for social networks?
If BuddyPress becomes a popular add on for WordPress Multiuser, then I think, as […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 24th, 2008

SocialThing!’s secret sauce isn’t friending, it’s finding

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion about FriendFeed vs SocialThing!.  My own take, which isn’t all that awe inspiring, but I do fall into the “FriendFeed makes my info overload worse” camp.
In a guest post on Read/Write Web, Muhammad Saleem interviews SocialThing! CEO Matt Galligan and we get […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments