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Amy Winehouse really has her shit together (Not counting the punching, wobbling and general incoherency)

Posted to FriendFeed API on June 30, 2008 at 12:25pm | Viewed 0 times

Amy Winehouse performed at the Glastonbury festival over the weekend and attacked a fan during a song. Supposedly, somebody tried to "grab" Amy (Cocaine is a helluva drug.), and she responded by throwing some elbows of fury. The crazy part is, read more

13 FriendFeed Tools for Twitter Refugees

Posted to FriendFeed API on June 30, 2008 at 7:33pm | Viewed 2 times

There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter announced that they were back on Saturday in their blog, but seeing as the outage may have inspired some users to read more

Collaborative Filtering: Lifeblood of The Social Web

Posted to del.icio.us hotlist on June 30, 2008 at 6:48pm | Viewed 0 times

Collaborative Filtering ( Wikipedia definition ) is a mechanism used to filter large amounts of information by spreading the process of filtering among a large group of people. Unlike mainstream media where there is either one or very few read more

How to Avoid Social Media Espionage

Posted to FriendFeed API on June 30, 2008 at 12:18am | Viewed 0 times

Nearly 1500 people have a window inside my daily actions and thoughts by subscribing to my feed and following me on Twitter. Over a thousand can see updates on what I do through Facebook. There are Flickr photos from the... read more

On the Web, If You're Not Growing, You're Dying

Posted to FriendFeed API on June 30, 2008 at 4:45am | Viewed 0 times

Often, perception of a site or service's momentum can be self-fulfilling. Even over the last two years of my writing on this blog, the companies I cover have changed, as what used to be relevant has become less so, and new hotshots have come to read more

Leaked Screen Shots Of Mythical Digg Recommendation Engine

Posted to TechCrunch on June 30, 2008 at 6:04am | Viewed 1 times

Digg has been talking up a new Recommendation Engine that intelligently suggests new stories to users for almost a year. Well, a source says that the company will launch it soon, probably this week. We have some details and a couple of leaked screen read more

A Little More on How to Hire a Manager

Posted to Hiring Technical People on June 30, 2008 at 11:51am | Viewed 1 times

Lisa has a nice post, How to Hire a Manager - A Time Tested Recipe. Shes close. Im not so sure about the humble part, and I would add something like advocates for team. But the piece Lisa missed is integrity. Without integrity, the other qualities, read more

Orthodox join Catholics in celebrating Year of St. Paul

Posted to CNA Daily News on June 30, 2008 at 6:51am | Viewed 0 times

Vatican City, Jun 30, 2008 / 10:51 am ( CNA ).- Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, arrived in Rome on Saturday to open the celebration of the Pauline Year with Pope Benedict. read more

The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later [Features]

Posted to Scientific American on June 30, 2008 at 6:00am | Viewed 1 times

Editor's Note: This story was originally printed in the June 2008 issue of Scientific American. June 30, 1908, 7:14 a.m., central Siberia--Semen Semenov, a local farmer, saw “the sky split in two. Fire appeared high and wide over the read more

FriendFeed iPhone interface

Posted to FriendFeed API on June 30, 2008 at 7:07pm | Viewed 0 times

We just launched a specialized iPhone interface for FriendFeed. When you visit friendfeed.com in your iPhone browser, you will get the new interface automatically: For all read more