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Windows Live Pulls a Teenage Werewolf, Turns Into Social Network Overnight

by John Jorgensen on November 13, 2008

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  • Home.Live.com
  • As of last night, Microsoft’s Live.com is now a full blown social network in addition to a search engine.
  • In conjunction, Windows Live Photos and Windows Live People have both been launched.
  • Users are automatically ‘friends’ with all of their contacts on Windows Live Messenger (#1 messaging service worldwide with 268 million users vs Yahoo’s 116m).
  • Similar to FriendFeed, Live pulls in your content from around the web including blog posts, Pandora, Twitter, Flickr, Yelp and RSS.
  • A Facebook-like activity stream announces every change to your profile and every photo you upload or review you write.
  • Yahoo had been talking about building this out around their email platform a year ago.

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Track Your Social Timeline w/ Dipity 2.0

by John Jorgensen on September 5, 2008

  • Dipity has made their activity stream tracking much more robust.
  • Their activity timeline integrates Digg, Twitter, Flickr and others, with the option to track your friends’ activities and/or topics they’re following.
  • View data in chronological Timeline view (patent-pending), flipbook, list and Google Maps-type view. All are embeddable.
  • Uses of Dipity around the web include: Howard Stern, Billy Joel, TimeTube, Archaelogist, and Ticker
  • In beta, for invites see original post. Reportedly open to the public later this month or October.

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FriendFeed: Blogging Killer?

by John Jorgensen on September 4, 2008

  • A post by Hematopoiesis states “FriendFeed is killing blogging.”
  • Mashable writer Mark Hopkins argues that micro-blogging services like FriendFeed and Twitter are actually evolving blogging by adding more value.
  • Hopkins uses tools like Utterz (post video/audio/text and publish it to any platform) and drop.io (upload files and distribute them) on his personal blog to publish data quickly.
  • Says that these web 2.0 apps act as great tools to “create, distribute, and garner discussion” on new media.

Is micro-blogging killing traditional blogging, or evolving it?

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Raptr, A FriendFeed for Gamers

by John Jorgensen on September 4, 2008

  • Give Raptr your account credentials and it tracks your gaming activity across PC, Mac, Xbox 360/Xbox Live, Wii, Playstation 3 and Facebook.
  • See what games your friends are playing at any moment, with the ability to private message and chat.
  • Desktop client will automatically download updates for PC games.
  • Recommendation engine suggests games to you that a lot of your friends are playing.
  • Game publishers can pay to have trailers for upcoming titles presented to Raptr members based on their gaming history. (If you’re a Madden ‘09 player, expect to see a trailer for Madden ‘10)
  • Founded by Dennis Fong (sold Xfire to Viacom in 2006), has raised $12 million from Accel Partners and Founders Fund.

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