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Oh, FriendFeed is now Facebook’s “official” R&D department!

When I heard the news I was walking through San Antonio’s Hard Rock Cafe looking at Kurt Cobain’s high school photograph. Wow. FriendFeed was purchased by Facebook. I quickly wrote a DM to Paul Buchheit and Bret Taylor, co-founders and said “call me.” They did, and I got o...

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Scobleizer — August 10

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Twitter’s platform shortcomings

So, now, Tr.im’s parent company, Nambu, has announced that the URL shortening service known as tr.im is turning off its service and that links will stop working after December 31. Here’s the news on Techmeme. What will this do? Well, first of all, any stats are gone. Bam. Second of al...

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Scobleizer — August 10

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You are SO unfollowed!

Whew, it’s been a while since I’ve done a good old fashioned blog. I’ve been busy, though. Posting tons of videos, both on my personal site on Blip.tv as well as professional videos over on building43.com. Last night I put up a live video of USA’s new CTO speaking to a bun...

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Scobleizer — August 05

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Commenting just changed for bloggers with JS-Kit Echo

Today we’ve turned on JS-Kit’s new real-time commenting engine over on building43. We are the first site to use it, and already the comments are coming in very quickly. You can compare to Disqus because over on building43 we’re using JS-Kit and here on my blog I’m using ...

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Scobleizer — July 23

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What does @loic think of the new FriendFeed 2.0 API?

I’m not a developer, but I can still read an API spec and I’m still excited in what I’m seeing from the just announced FriendFeed 2.0 API. I wonder what real developers, like those who build Twitter apps like Seesmic, TweetDeck, PeopleBrowsr think. Dave Winer started a conversat...

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Scobleizer — July 20

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Real password security and back up too

Since last week we saw the publishing of confidential documents from inside Twitter (I doubt any of you missed that, but if you did, TechCrunch last week got passed documents from a hacker who figured out how to get into several accounts at Twitter). This led me to start this discussion which is ...

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Scobleizer — July 20