You may have heard about the new BuzzVoice service that launched a while ago. It's a service that brings your favorite internet content to you in a new way, by converting it to audio that you can listen to you anywhere. You can check out the BuzzVoice App at iTunes here, and explore the idea a bit more at the BuzzVoice website here. They currently have more than 1,400 sources available, so no … [Read more...]
If you know me via Twitter to any degree, you probably know that I frequently follow people for no other reason than that @mickipedia @ed them. Just play along if you don't get that. Micki, @mickipedia, or Mickispeedia (ok, or Micki Krimmel), depending on where you are and what she has on her feet, has been one of my favorite Twitter personalities from the day I signed up. It's actually a … [Read more...]
Glue is Adaptive Blue's Firefox Add-on that builds social networking into the internet at large, rather than into one particular stop. Connecting through products, Glue is a bar that will appear whenever you browse to product pages (movies, books, restaurants, albums, etc.) on a wide variety of websites (Amazon, Netflix, Best Buy, Zagat, and on and on). Once the bar appears, … [Read more...]
For a variety of reasons, I've been thinking a lot lately about what Twitter is. How do you explain it to people, and just what the hell do people do with it anyway? Whatever it is, is there any value to it, or is it just the next goofy thing to do online? Not that long ago, I wrote an article entitled Why Twitter is Doomed to Failure, and the general idea there was that … [Read more...]
Somewhere in the back of our minds, we've all known that Twitter is in trouble. I don't mean because every once in a while someone wonders aloud how the thing is going to make anyone any money. That's somewhere in the front of our minds. The recent spin on buying friends for $1 pops the question up again, and we look at, and we talk about money often enough. No, I mean that thing we … [Read more...]
