Facebook: Subscribe to Friends!?
Facebook lets people subscribe to friends to receive notifications whenever the person updates/posts; http://j.mp/aHfRoD
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Google Wave Survives: Wave in a Box
Google: We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we have already open sourced. Go Wave in a Box! http://j.mp/alMzSm
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Gerrit Eicker
Google: “Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps, we’d like to share the plan for our contributions over the coming months. - We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we’ve already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and web client into a more complete application or ‘Wave in a Box.’ … This project will not have the full functionality of Google Wave as you know it today. However, we intend to give developers and enterprising users an opportunity to run wave servers and host waves on their own hardware. … While Wave in a Box will be a functional application, the future of Wave will be defined by your contributions. We hope this project will help the Wave developer community continue to grow and evolve.”
RWW: “The release of Wave as an application could be a big deal for developers, especially at businesses that want to take advantage of Wave for real-time collaboration and discussion. – Wave was always intended for people to run on their own machines, but this release will make the process much easier. Developers and enterprise users that have been eyeing Wave will be more likely to take the technology into their own hands and build things like feature-rich Web forums, productivity tools and apps to facilitate collaborative projects.”
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Martin Seibert (TwentyFeet)
Cool. That’s what we want to see! :-)
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Gerrit Eicker
Indeed! The doors are wide open again. Who needs Google anyway? ;)
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Gerrit Eicker
Real vs. Virtual Life?
Korolov: If we isolate ourselves completely we will be able to see what a truly real life feels like; http://j.mp/aElIAU
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Gerrit Eicker
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Martin Seibert
Danke für die Erwähnung.
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Gerrit Eicker
Aber gern doch. ;)
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Gerrit Eicker
Greplin
Search bar for your life: Greplin, in private beta, searches all online data, in one place, fast; http://j.mp/bjSegg
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Link Building KPIs
Bencken: Tracking KPIs for link building is a critical step. 6 metrics you need to manage; http://j.mp/9At5tG
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Gerrit Eicker
Twitter Goes OAuth, Finally
Twitter: The move to OAuth will mean increased security and a better experience; http://j.mp/clJSPd
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Gerrit Eicker
Local Paywalls Will Not Pay Off
Mutter: Local news rivals will doom publisher paywalls at Yahoo, AOL, HuffPo; http://j.mp/9DWWUB
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Gerrit Eicker
Gmail Priority Inbox
Google: Priority Inbox for Gmail fights eMail overload by displaying emails in order of importance; http://j.mp/bLJVU1
Gerrit Eicker 10:04 on 3. September 2010 Permalink |
AF: “Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Facebook. It also appears to be Facebook’s answer to Twitter’s follow feature. As a Facebook user who has seen the feature explained to us, ‘By subscribing you don’t miss any updates from people you subscribe to.’ … Facebook gave us the following statement: ‘This feature is being tested with a small percent of users. It lets people subscribe to friends and pages to receive notifications whenever the person they’ve subscribed to updates their status or posts new content (photos, videos, links, or notes).‘”
TC: “In other words, this may just be another mechanism to ensure you see updates from people you really care about. But if that’s the case, this just adds more confusion to Facebook’s social graph because you can already create lists for that purpose. Though, as All Facebook points out, these update will apparently appear in the notifications drop down. … As expected, Facebook has confirmed that you need to be a friend of someone (or a fan of them) in order to get these notifications. These notifications go into the tab up top and also get sent as an email to you, I’m told.”
FC: “In the wake of pretty much continuous privacy scandals, it’s unclear how Facebook will make this feature seem palatable. It doesn’t exactly allow anything that wasn’t possible before, but it makes obsession much easier. Perhaps Facebook would implement a way for users to approve subscribers? In any case, the feature is merely being tested now, and may or may not ever be implemented for the general public. How do you all feel? Is this a valuable new tool, or a step over the line into creepiness?“