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Re: louisgray.com: Should RSS be Jettisoned On the Information Journey?

dccrowley — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:32:53 -0000

There is a difference between abandoning RSS or abandoning your RSS reader. I don't use google reader any more. I have switched to iGoogle and feedly. I use iGoogle to scan news, have tabs for news news, another for the RWW, techmeme hacker news etc and two others for blogs. I use feedly every other day to scan stories. RSS/ ATOM are great technologies and I'd hate it if they disappeared. Life online wouldn't be half as good without out them imo.

Slightly off topic... I wish Google would implement RSS in search like Yahoo do. They do it for blog search, but I want it all. Google Alerts has "way too much setup"

Re: louisgray.com: I'm Not Using Brightkite, and It Has Zero to Do With Privacy, Security

dccrowley — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:33:40 -0000

Good point's Louis. We are creatures of habit and end up in the same place most times.I really like the brightkite idea though. I am thinking of changing my approach. I'll log in when I visit somewhere out of the ordinary and again when I get home. I'll be stopping the work to home to shopping, etc stuff.

Re: Private: Twitter Apps Can Only Grow so Far

jessestay — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:38:29 -0000

Thanks for the mention! This is important stuff, for sure.

Re: Private: Twitter Apps Can Only Grow so Far

dccrowley — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:55:45 -0000

I'm blogging this post Jesse. It's bad news for you and for me (a socialtoo user). But even other services like Seesmic could be affected. It's going to be painful and widespread if this goes ahead. I understand twitter ... kind of. But imagine being able to make only 2 phone calls a day! In the end it just does not work. It will limit the service... and get Dave Winer back on his hobby horse, decentralized twitter which Bezos will hate.

It will do damage that's for sure. For instance I see the BBC following the inauguration yesterday and peoples reactions. The have loads of twitter quotes. So the media is waking up to the concept of 'the back channel'. Except when you are a BBC, NBC etc. and you want to do stuff! 20.000 requests should be peanuts I hope.

Re: louisgray.com: What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users

dccrowley — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:40:25 -0000

I hope Friendfeed do even half what you say. I hardly ever use it any more. It's information on Steroids and therefore of no use to me. I have a day job yeah!

Re: louisgray.com: Fidelity Puts Lipstick On My Investment Pigs

dccrowley — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:00:23 -0000

Headline of the year? I love this one :D

Re: Motorola Rennes Fired Employees Using YouTube To Find a Buyer

dccrowley — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:20:06 -0000

I hope their R&D talents are better than their singing :p

Re: Should Michael Arrington Be Invited Back At LeWeb Next Year?

dccrowley — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:50:11 -0000

Loic, I like what makes you tick. It may not be completely in tune with the valley wavelength but it's damn good. Treating Mike to slow food was an awesome idea :D

Re: MSFT and Yahoo: Nom nom nom

dccrowley — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:55:11 -0000

No offence to Kara Swisher but last time she said Jerry was staying. That turned out to be untrue. I just hope that MS buys all of Yahoo and not just search. Buying just search is going after Google. It will fail. Buying all of Yahoo will give them a real brand that they can focus all their live and msn activities into. Plus Yahoo has a bunch of great web 2.0 services that rock. I've posted about this earlier today

Re: louisgray.com: Every Night, I Sleep Next to My iPhone

dccrowley — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:55:02 -0000

I used to be more connected than I am now. It has cost me in some ways. But down time has become very valuable imo :)

Re: louisgray.com: 15 Tools for Your Twitter Toolbox

dccrowley — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:22:26 -0000

Hadn't heard of twistory - vry cool, thanks for the tips

Re: louisgray.com: Two Features Every Gmail User Must Utilize

dccrowley — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:00:44 -0000

Sorry.. a week later. But this is new. http://www.gmail-backup.com/ I have it running right now. Looks like it's working

Re: Tools I use: A close look at Feedly

dccrowley — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:32:20 -0000

I have found feedly to really up my read intake. Google reader really is too plain. But then so is nearly everything from Google. I mean Apple is clean and simple but not plain.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

tester — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:47:11 -0000

testing disqus

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

webomatica — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:07:36 -0000

yep I agree, one worry I have is that FF is super fast because it doesn't have a ton of users. Hopefully the ex-google team is already thinking ahead and will avoid the scaling issues of Twitter. I guess we'll see.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

dccrowley — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:32:01 -0000

Lot's of good points. Still I love twitter and hope it grows strong. FF is a baby in terms of numbers compared to Twitter of Facebook. I hope FF stays light and nimble though. They have great functionality... but how much heavy lifting do they have to do yet? Very little from what I can see and if messaging takes off in FF it could be whole different ball game, which will make things difficult for them.

Re: Twitter: more mainstream than it looks

dccrowley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:57:48 -0000

When twitter goes mainstream it will be awesome. I live in a village, work in nearest town. I can see great uses for it among me and my fellow villagers. I might use 2 accounts and clients to keep the geeks and farmers apart!

Re: louisgray.com: My Social Media Consumption Workflow

dccrowley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:36:24 -0000

I still use Google reader... but only when I have time. Friendfeed and iGoogle are where I put my attention and they both pull in the important stuff. Good post again Louis! Oh yeah! Alert thingy is a godsend