Just saw the news that pownce, a microblogging competitor to twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart, and the service will shut down in two weeks. From the pownce blog:
We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined [...]
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While reading through my RSS feeds this morning, one title caught my eye: “SocialU: One of the Most Obnoxious Apps We’ve Seen in a While (Invites)” by Marshall Kirkpatrick on ReadWriteWeb. I just loved the fact that he trashes a service, yet has invites to it. Just thought that was excellent.
From his review:
SocialU is [...]
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Nothing new to say today, but I found this good list of AIR Applications at Offline Tech. Out of the 70 listed, I’ve tried only 8 of them, so I’ve got some playing around to do.
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Ryan Stewart at ZDNet has a post reviewing something called MyMovieMatch. See what I did there? I made it sound like I don’t know anything about MyMovieMatch. Clever, right?
Full Disclosure: I am employed by the very company behind MyMovieMatch. So my feigned detachment is pretty much shot now. And now I can put this [...]
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So that title may be just a little bit pretentious, I know. But I’m not sure how else to put it.
On the web, it seems like we always want to root for the little guy, and when the little guy gets big, we put a big old target on them. For instance, google. They started [...]
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After checking out Mister Wong, I followed a path down the rabbit hole and found something I absolutely must check out: Pownce.
Kevin Rose of Digg fame is behind this new venture, and here’s what it is:
Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the [...]
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On my RSS feed since day one at the new gig: Ryan Stewart’s blog on rich internet applications. Sure, if you are at all interested in the RIA space, you know who Ryan is, but if you’re new to the RIA world, check him out. He’s the guy you read if you’re into RIA stuff. [...]
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So, Adobe announced that Apollo is now going to be known as AIR. That name is just begging for people to write clever puns, and that’s exactly what’s happened. Here are my nominations for Best Clever Headline About Adobe AIR:
Adobe Launches Apollo Into AIR- Tom Sanders
Apollo Downed as Adobe Takes to the AIR- Stevie Smith
Im [...]
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