Posts Tagged ‘friendfeed’

Business Thoughts: Tool Providers v. Service Providers

In: The Web|Work|advertising|branding|business|marketing|social media

29 Jul 2009

The hip new shiny thing for a new company is to position themselves as a service. Stepping back from the hype machine for a minute, can you really identify a service provider when you see one? Or are the companies that sell themselves as services are actually tools. And what differentiates a tool provider from [...]

Performance Alerting: Is Louis Gray the Canary in Your Coal Mine?

In: The Web|Web Performance|WebPerformance.Org|branding|reputation

10 Oct 2008

Yesterday in the Fast Company Live Fail Whale session [mention on Scoble's blog here], Paul Bucheit of FriendFeed jokingly said that his company’s external alerting mechanism was Louis Gray. I cringed when I read that, as the last people who should be letting you know you have an issue are your visitors or customers. I [...]

FriendFeedHolic – A Social Media Ranking Model for Advertising and Marketing Success

In: Uncategorized

30 Sep 2008

One of the most challenging things in social media is finding the conversation leaders. Those people who drive the conversation, and create a community. FriendFeedHolic (ffholic) has taken the base knowledge that exists in FriendFeed and added a ranking mechanism to it based on input and output. In fact, they weight the participation in the [...]

Metrics in Conversational and Community Marketing

In: Blogging|The Web|Web Performance|advertising

20 Sep 2008

There is clear dissatisfaction with the current state of marketing among the social media mavens. Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures are looking for companies to invest in to take advantage of this. BuzzLogic releases their conversational ad service. The Inquisitr moves from AdSense to Technorati Media, indicating a potential shift at b5 Media. Lookery [...]

Strategic Reading: Managing FriendFeed My Way

In: Blogging|Life

12 Aug 2008

For FriendFeed has become my replacement for Google Reader, which I only visit occasionally now to see if there are blogs I need to add to my feed. But, if you are going to replace a reader with FriendFeed, how do you manage the flow of content. While tools will likely improve over time, I [...]

Outages and the Power of Social Media

In: Web Performance

28 Jun 2008

Lately, there have been outages for two large sites: Amazon and Facebook. Working for a company that monitors such things made me able to confirm the nature of the outages.  But how I became aware of them has had me thinking in new ways for the last few weeks. I became aware of both of [...]


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