don’t get me wrong, it’s great that twhirl added support for identi.ca in their latest release pushed out tonight. at least it will make me use identi.ca more often. however twhirl missed an important point. which is: identi.ca ain’t a Twitter-clone, it’s a distributed Twitter-clone! so it just doesn’t make sense you can’t add any [...]
few days ago, I’ve received an automated e-mail by Virel.org – a microformat-aware search-engine/web-crawler based in Germany. obviously they indexed the hCard embedded on this blog, cool! currently they seem to restrict their service to personal data (hCard) and events (hCalendar), which brings me to the point: is there actually a service out there making [...]
just watched the first episode of ‘The Social Web TV’ (discovered via Marc Canter, People Aggregator). hosted by David Recordon (sixapar), John McCrea & Joseph Smarr (both Plaxo), the show decodes the tech-lingo/buzzwords on current concepts of interoperability among social web-apps. the first episode features the ongoing facebook<>google-embargo, gnip, identi.ca etc. nice one!
the net is buzzing on identi.ca, a twitter-esque microblogging-service launched by Evan Prodromou a few days ago. as of today, identi.ca lacks many key-features Twitter has (SMS-gateway, API) or used to have (track). but criticizing identi.ca’s need to catch up is missing the point, as it’s not competing with Twitter on the level of features [...]
fbCal is a godsend for those who tend to forget birthdays (like me) and rarely log into Facebook anymore (like me) [even when I did, I never really noticed the upcoming birthdays on the homepage anyway]. fbCal (a Facebook-app) generates RSS-/iCalendar-feeds for your friends’ birthdays & your upcoming events on FB, which you then can [...]
…must be posterous! to start blogging, follow these steps:
sign-up at posterous.com
e-mail your first post to post@posterous.com
that’s it, really! after receiving your first e-mail, posterous sets up your blog at an auto-generated URL like michael-go12qr.posterous.com. ok, if you’re not into these kind of URLs, there’s one last step:
3. visit your new blog & change the URL [...]