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Matt Galligan, C-E-Oh! of SocialThing

April 23, 2008 – 2:24 pm

I was charging my laptop at the Web 2.0 Expo today, and I had a chance to sit down with Matt Galligan from SocialThing.

I have used FriendFeed for a while, and I signed up for SocialThing too, but I really couldn’t find a reason to login. After talking with Galligan, I realized that SocialThing is [...]

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Virtually free to publish

August 4, 2007 – 9:50 pm

You spend less than $50 a month to use a high-speed internet connection.
You can spend $10 a month to get a dedicated host, and for another $4 a year, you can host your very own domain name.

Another $50 for a webcam, and you have a fully-functional TV station and “newspaper” for just a few [...]

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Is Blogging Journalism?

July 21, 2007 – 8:12 pm

At Wordcamp 2007, John C. Dvorak and Om Malik spoke to a group of roughly 200 people about the nature of blogging. Dvorak argued that journalism and blogging are basically the same, but Malik insisted that blogging has redefined journalism.

He said that only a few years ago, mainstream media had control of the wires. They [...]

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Easily follow your Facebook friends on Twitter.

July 19, 2007 – 2:22 am

I am always trying to move my friends over to use Twitter to update their status. I love Facebook’s status feature, but I don’t have time to log into Facebook 10 times a day.
I created a Twitter bot to syndicate my friend’s Facebook status RSS feed.
I also really like using Twitterrific, and I already [...]

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Pownce on this

June 29, 2007 – 2:06 am

Digg’s Kevin Rose has finally unveiled his secret project, and as you’d expect, it’s spelled wrong.
Pownce offers users the ability to share notes, events, and other media with friends in their network. This is not your typical social networking site though.
The moment you sign up, you are automatically friends with the person who invited you, [...]

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