http://www.fringeblog.com The fringe is where the real resides, where substance and style are made one. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:46:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.fringeblog.com/2008/03/friendfeed-vs-socialthing/ http://www.fringeblog.com/2008/03/friendfeed-vs-socialthing/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:56:19 +0000 jelewis8 http://www.fringeblog.com/2008/03/friendfeed-vs-socialthing/ I think it’s in. FriendFeed vs. SocialThing! is the new HD vs. BluRay, Beta vs. VHS. With my limited knowledge of both, I’m going to make a prediction that FriendFeed will come out on top, leaving a very limited number of SocialThing! users who will cry into their corn flakes every morning as they aggregate their feeds on the one social networking platform everyone seemed to like, know was better, and adopted early (they even gave VC to the project), yet did not adopt. Why the war?
Competition is the Web 2.5.

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Twitter scratches me right where I itch. Its microformat limits the amount of time I can legitimately spend on it, and it has what Stephen Jay Gould might call a punctuated evolution to its information flow–because messages are limited to 140 characters, information is necessarily reduced to quanta. I like this because it forces me to rely on pure data to adequately convey my thoughts, actions, and intentions.
Which is what Twittering comes down to. And I see it can be used for numerous information outlets: advertising, blanket quick-info blasts, timeline-ing, recruitment, and assisting users. Earlier today, I purchased a domain on behalf of a Tweeter whom I’ve never met. That’s the kind of 2.0 interactivity and give-and-take that I want. Short form relationships, I think, are best in this environment.

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