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Maple Leaf 2.0 - Technology and Web 2.0 News in Canada

June 20th, 2008

Skype 4 and Twhirl with Seesmic illustrate centralization and evolution of Web 2.0 tools

This week we’ve seen both the release of a new version of Skype—Skype 4.0 Beta 1 for Windows initial release - Skype Garage—and a preview version of Twhirl that includes Seesmic playback—Seesmic Blog: Play Seesmic videos in Twhirl client—while they haven’t been connected previously, that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
Looking at the new Skype, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 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

April 17th, 2008

Are better applications the solution to the information firehose?

The information firehose is something that we all suffer from nowadays. I won’t even use the incremented number of Web x.0, that’s just foolish marketing, but we are beginning to try to tame the information beast by pulling more together. Is that the right course and will it save us?
If services won’t save us, will […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

April 7th, 2008

Marshall is right, Twhirl and Seesmic do give us a glimpse into the future of communications

The future is the information stream
Last week one of the big news items was Seesmic acquiring the Twitter client Twhirl.  This was bantered around a lot, but Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/WriteWeb really nailed it, I think.  Without hype or hyperbole Marshall saw what I saw as well–this is a glimpse of what we’ll be doing […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

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