Friction.tv is inviting students to make submissions about international, national and local causes and issues they feel passionate about onto our site. We are an independent website with no affiliations to corporations or media organisations and our cont
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"social decision-making tool to help research and make decisions online" What do you think of this one?
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an interactive portal of information on Vegas restaurants, sporting events, schools and “everything hyperlocal.”
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Paul Bradshaw looks at FriendFeed
What do they say it is?
“FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.”
What do I say it is?
Facebook, but uglier and more flexible.
What’s great about it?
It does what it says. The suggestion feature allows you to discover people and feeds you would otherwise not know about. Unlike Facebook, you don’t have to be someone’s friend to follow their stuff. The imaginary friend feature allows you to aggregate feeds. It has also released its API, opening up all sorts of possibilities for third party apps.
What could be better?
A more usable interface; some way to filter the information overload that comes from a river of feeds from anyone and everyone.
How is it going to make money?
Given it’s copied Facebook’s success so far, probably advertising. But also selling services to other clients who want bespoke apps, etc. may be another revenue stream.
Should I pay it any attention?
Given the hype so far, it’ll be hard not to. The impression here is of something that will continue to develop in an iterative way, particularly with 3rd party apps, so yes, watch it and see how it grows.
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Paul Bradshaw looks at CoverItLive
What do they say it is?
“CoveritLive’s web based software takes your next live blog to a new level. Your commentary publishes in real time like an instant message. Our ‘one-click’ publishing lets you drop polls, videos, pictures, ads and audio clips as soon as they come to mind. Comments and questions from your readers instantly appear but you control what gets published. Try our software for your next live blog. Your readers will love it.”
What do I say it is?
A Twitter-meets-chatroom-meets-poll that you can embed on your site.
What’s great about it?
The combination of different technologies makes for a compelling mix. In particular the comments feature transforms into a chatroom of sorts. Using this to cover JEEcamp I found users were chatting to each other about the event they were following, creating a second level of coverage and discussion. It also enables multiple author coverage (we had four authors posting on separate laptops simultaneously), and more easy and flexible embedding than Twitter. The polls are a nice touch which also enables more dialogue with ‘viewers’, and you can embed video and images.
What could be better?
They are working on searchability, apparently, and have already made it possible to export onto your own site. It has also crashed previously, while embedding may not be simple for everyone (it worked on a Wordpress-hosted site). Tagging and geotagging could be added. Adding images and video could be easier - integration with a live video service such as Qik would make this incredible.
How is it going to make money?
Once they have a foothold, advertising is an obvious option. But more promising would be a ‘freemium’ model where users can pay for extra features. Most likely we’ll see a combination, with the paid-for version being ad-free as well.
Should I pay it any attention?
Very much so. Publishers will find this incredibly useful in covering live events. Entrepreneurs should pay attention to what looks like a potential profit-maker.
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Apologies if we go back to the same ’source’ material again. And this time, I’ll give the author his due
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£20m sound studio, Five and some large film corporation? Simon Howes on the Eastside blog is hearing rumours and is looking for clarification. (tags: media television eastside digbeth film) Radio 4 - Today - Fierce Festival 2008 Now there’s a media partner I wasn’t expecting. (ta Jez) (tags: fierce bbc radio4 today) Craig Holmes has a new web gallery covering the whole spectrum of his work. Compliments his blog well. (tags: photography craigholmes internet) Q&A with Mark Ball The Fierce
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From those corners of the web that I’ve been reading today: eufeeds. The tagline says it all: “over 300 newspapers, updated every 20 minutes.” An interesting, European aggregation of headlines, in multiple languages, providing a steadily updated snapshot of the news of the moment. The link above goes to the page of Portuguese newspapers; I count 25 other country pages. 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5. Okay, here’s something else to get excited about. The upcoming new version loo
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Rick Waghorn, MyFootballWriter @ JEECamp O que se diz do JEECamp? Depois de uma curta análise por aqui, falámos
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We haven’t mentioned banks yet. We will. But on one of my little forays down to London, a mate of
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