Display Your Twitter Friends on a World Map
Today I started thinking about how cool it would be if I could see the locations of my Twitter friends on a Map. After spending some time Googling for such a tool I was only able to find one, and…
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How to Find Local Twitter Users From Your City
Twitterlocal.net is a site that lets you find local Twitter users based on proximity to a given location. They got mentioned quite a bit on Twitter today due to a newly created leader board that shows a breakdown of locations…
Lifestreaming Services Need Better Filtering Mechanisms
Finding ways to limit the firehose of information has become a common theme lately. I recently read this interesting post on TechCrunch highlighting the need to filter the noise. Then I read on Mashable about how Twitter can be such…
Twhirl adds FriendFeed Support
This is huge! I just saw this Tweet from Loic Lemeur and couldn’t believe it. I wrote about the killer Lifestreaming app a while back and today it becomes reality. Here’s a video with info on it: You can…
Using Crowdstatus to Follow the People Behind Lifestreaming Services
I have recently gotten to a point on Twitter where I’m following so many people I can’t keep up. I feel that Twitter really needs to add a feature allowing us to put followers into groups for filtering. I have…
How Twitter, FriendFeed & Lifestreaming are Transforming the Web
Here’s a quote from Stan Shroeder from his story So, Is FriendFeed The Next Big Thing? I can barely find time to comment on blog posts; why the hell would I comment on bits and pieces of my (or someone else’s)…
Simple Hack to Get RSS Feed For FriendFeed User Comments & Likes
I just saw this message posted by Scoble to Dave Winer on Twitter So I decided to check and see if the current format used to get RSS Feeds for all user data would also work to specifically get Comments…
Socialstream and Lifestreams Social Needs
User Tommaso on #Lifestream let me know about an interesting project called Socialstream. It was the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master’s program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. It was initially planned as a way…
Preview of New Dandelife Streams Feature
If you haven’t already heard of Dandelife it’s a self described “Social Biography Network”. The site provides a platform that allows you to tell stories about your life in posts that are tied to the dates that they occurred. They…
Thoughts on Twitter vs. Jaiku and the Evolution of Blogging
I joined Twitter in February after coming across the widget running on several of the blogs I had visited researching Lifestreaming. I’m a sucker for trying pretty much any interesting sounding new web technology so I created an account to…