Tag Archives: Friendfeed

Product Life Cycle and Consumer Life Cycles

Posted on February 26, 2009 by manu prasad

One of the social web’s by products er, products, are “shiny new objects”. (new services that launch and send us enthusiasts into a tizzy. All the web 2.0 greats were shiny new objects at some point in time)  There were … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn…a bit more

Posted on February 2, 2009 by manu prasad

A few weeks back, RWW had an interesting piece on why LinkedIn shouldn’t have Facebook envy, and should not attempt to make itself a destination site like the social networking service. We thought the Valley intelligentsia long ago proclaimed the … Continue reading →

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Twitt…er, pay?

Posted on November 21, 2008 by manu prasad

Would you pay for Twitter?’, a very good question, asked by Walt Ribeiro, at his blog. It made me think, and I came to the conclusion that I’d pay (though it all depends on the price). Apparently, I’m in a … Continue reading →

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Social Aggregation – Birds of the same feather…

Posted on November 7, 2008 by manu prasad

I installed Flock quite sometime back, and even used it for a few days. I was quite impressed with the social aggregation, and the sheer number of sharing sites it was tying together on a browser. Flock has recently released … Continue reading →

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Everybody, Friendfeed, right now!!

Posted on October 20, 2008 by manu prasad

In a way, Friendfeed’s latest offering has revolutionised my usage of social media services. My experiments with FF had been limited since Twitter used to give me a fair amount of good conversations on various subjects of interest – from … Continue reading →

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Social Factories

Posted on September 29, 2008 by manu prasad

What self respecting social media blog could let the Facebook redesign slip by without a post dedicated to it. Now is a good time considering that Mark Zuck has deemed that we shut down our silly protests and just accept … Continue reading →

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Linkin Parks

Posted on August 8, 2008 by manu prasad

I’ve been a fan of del.icio.us for a long time, and was extremely happy with the plug-in they’d made for FF3.  Although this offers a perspective of people who don’t bookmark, I’ve found the idea of a taggable, online database … Continue reading →

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One Stop Shops

Posted on July 21, 2008 by manu prasad

I’ve always had a soft corner for Rediff, perhaps because, once upon a time, it was the site that led me to new things on the internet. First it was email, and though I had the eudora and usa.net and … Continue reading →

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Buzz Off

Posted on July 17, 2008 by manu prasad

Even after building an entire army of twitter tools, the mania still continues. Hopefully its only a matter of time before the tweeding happens Meanwhile, this is a fairly good top 5 list. And since we have a new player … Continue reading →

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