Twitter – there she blows!

Ok, Twitter has had to fight many battles, the hardest one still is the fail whale – and spammers. I heard about Michael Jackson beeing delivered to the hospital due to twitter.com was off, so my good ol’ TV attracted my attention, there I heard the news… Nevertheless these troubles are just a sign of the incredible success twitter.com is Read More …

Social Media Sites (an update)

Here’s an attempt to build up a little list of the most important social media sites. As it is far from being complete, it will be expanded from time to time… Blogging WordPress  |  WordPress Factsheet Blogger  |  Blogger Factsheet Tumblr  |  Tumblr Factsheet LiveJournal  |  LiveJournal Factsheet Skyrock  |  Skyrock Factsheet Blogcatalog  |  Blogcatalog Factsheet MyBlogLog  |  MyBlogLog Factsheet Entrecard  |  Entrecard Factsheet Ameba  |  ameba Factsheet

Twitter vs Friendfeed

The discussion whether the one is killing the other is getting hotter and the opinions are raging high.
First of all these two “opponents” are hard to compare as friendfeed being a information aggregation tool and twitter a hybrid between instant messenger and micro blogging device.

Both serve certainly completely different needs, twitter mainly focuses on spreading rather personal opinons/feelings/emotional states/gossip, only randomly establishing a real conversation.
Friendfeed resembles a honey pot of information gathered by its user acting as honey bees collected from various flowers, like Digg, GoogleReader, del.icio.us, stumbleupon and many more. Read More …