Facebook today announced an acquisition of Friendfeed – getting an innovative, growing service (still small by Facebook standards: 1m users vs. Facebook’s 250m) and, by all accounts, an exceptional team (comprised of ex-Googlers).

The twitter …

Yesterday TechCrunch put on the “Real-Time CrunchUp” event to discuss what has been billed as the real-time web. Alongside several product demos and company launches, the most prominent discussion topics were:
- Business models and opportunities …

I have written before that data around referral traffic could be a business model for both Twitter and Friendfeed. And as Twitter’s growth accelerates, I believe this more than when I wrote the article one …

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The improved Gmail iPhone site is just that: improved. But a true GMail iPhone App would allow fuller cusotmizations, run faster, better integrate calendars and contacts… and soon …

Introducing http://news.ryanspoon.com – I encourage you to test it out!
About a year ago, I weened myself off of Digg (at least partially) and moved onto Hacker News. Hacker News is the best mix of technology …

I love Twitter.
I’ve come to love FriendFeed.
And I really love my new iPhone 3G.
And I’ve never been a huge Facebook user.
All of these come together thanks to Apple and my new iPhone. After installing the …

Two months ago, I wrote this blog’s most read article: After 5 Days on Disqus, I’m Turning Back to WordPress Comments. The quick, controversial summary is that I installed Disqus and, after concerns of not …

About a week ago, web 2.0 celebrity / guru Jason Calacanis “officially” announced his retirement from blogging. Most of the blogosphere reaction was that the supposed retirement was either a hoax or a ploy to …

Fred Wilson’s last two blog posts are about the changing / evolving blog landscape:
1) the death of “long form blogging” (ironic)
2) the evolution of blog commenting and how comments are becoming as important as the …

I love Twitter. And I’ve written about why.
I also struggle with Twitter… and I’ve written about that too.
But one thing remains consistent with my Twitter usage: it happens on third-parties like Twhirl and Alert Thingy …

I’ve written a lot about Twitter over the past few weeks – much of my writing is about community, trends, and general usage. Today, much of the buzz is around – as Michael Arrington terrificly …

Twitter’s inability to stay online is well documented. The reason for their instability, however, is much debated. Both Twitter and Om Malik argue that it stems from power-users (who tax the system with each post). …