August 2009

Facebook And Your Content

by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 11, 2009

Facebook Import

Who owns it?

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Google Reader Now More Than Ever

by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 10, 2009

You’ve heard the news.

So here’s five things Google Reader needs to replace FriendFeed…

1. Feed Imports
2. Better Bookmarklet
3. Easier User Discovery
4. Better Commenting
5. Unified UI geared towards community over content

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Spon.in – URL Shortener for Sponsored Conversations

by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 7, 2009

TwittAd founder and CEO James Eliason has recently launched Spon.In in an effort to add another layer of disclosure to sponsored conversations taking place in the social networking landscape.

The sponsored tweet/conversation space is becoming even more populated with the announcement from IZEA of SponsoredTweets. SponsoredTweets requires a disclosure in the tweet, which is great. Magpie starts out every tweet with “ad”, which is great. However, any disclosure like #ad #spon or even just saying (sponsored) allows for brand hi-jacking in which many companies have expressed concern to me. What this space needs is ONE unified url that can be shared and used to promote ethical and responsible sponsorship on Twitter & beyond.
I think this is a great idea to disclose that a link being shared is sponsored.

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Real Time Sharing Hits Google Reader

by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 6, 2009

A couple weeks ago I shared how Google Reader changed how I consume information again.

Now that consumption is happening in real-time thanks to PubSubHubbub.

Louis Gray says “PubSubHubbub Hits the Gas On My Google Reader Link Blog“. That’s good for all of us who use Google Reader as an information filter – which Louis realizes:

“As I’ve discussed before, I share what I do on Google Reader because I know there are a good number of people connected who rely on me to be an information filter.”

Now I get human filtered information and news in real time from Google Reader and FriendFeed.

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Texting While Driving

by Andy Brudtkuhl on August 5, 2009

Is stupid legislation that’s a waste of time…

How do you enforce it? If I got pulled over texting while driving – I’ll claim I was surfing the web :-)

I’m all for traffic safety but specific banishment is stupid. If you are going to enforce these rules – make it blanket rule. No use of mobile devices while driving would be much clearer and easier to enforce.

Thoughts?

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