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  • Friendfeed and Facebook: Trends already?

    Since the announcement earlier this week that Facebook is acquiring Friendfeed,  Steve Rubel wonders whether he’s seeing a trend: […] I have seen an uptick in friend invitations on Facebook, with these individuals specifically saying they follow me on Friendfeed.…

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  • Sign up to stop the NLA charging PR for links

    Last month, I wrote about plans by the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) here in the UK to introduce a scale of charges for anyone in the PR business who uses a link on their own website to any mainstream media…

  • I like to think of Friendbook not Facefeed

    Surprise news last night was Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed. Facebook – a giant among social networks – has grabbed the comparatively-tiny Friendfeed content-sharing service (which has just 12 employees) as the means to accelerate Facebook’s product development plans, according to…

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  • What’s for lunch today, Twitter?

    An imaginative use of Twitter. Somerset County Council in southwest England is set to use Twitter to tell parents what’s on the lunch menu for their children at school. This idea is part of the Council’s My School Lunch initiative,…

  • How bad can it get for SpinVox?

    When I think about SpinVox and the huge public kerfuffle that broke out last month stemming from allegations made in a BBC investigation over SpinVox’s audio-to-text transcription service, Billy Flynn and razzle-dazzle from the musical Chicago is mostly what springs…