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While Twitter is weathering WWDC, Summize’s WWDC coverage is giving a “500 Server Error” page, as of this writing.
A prettier way to see WWDC updates from Twitter is Twistori/#wwdc, which seems to be running fine.
UPDATE: Perhaps I spoke too soon; Twitter has been having a few troubles; but, it’s back now, so… kudos to Twitter, again.
I like FriendBinder so far. The ability to see all my people’s updates from different sites in a plain chronological list is very cool.
What I’m missing is the interaction… I can see any and all updates in status people have made, things they’ve written… but to actually comment on or in any way respond to any given item, I need to go to another site.
Having said that; I’m not sure that’s a bad thing. I’m reminded of Dave Winer’s statement that the best way to have a site that people want to go to is to send them away:
People come back to places that send them away. Memorize that one.
So maybe FriendBinder’s static display of updates is not such a bad idea. I guess time will tell. As it is, between the bacn (:sigh, yes I’m actually using the term) and sites like FriendBinder, I’m finding that I don’t actually ever need to visit Facebook at all, unless I actually need to respond to something there that I can’t do from anywhere else. To me, that is valuable.
Hmm. It looks like Plurk is down, too.
Steve Hodson has an interesting post about, again, Scoble’s position of influence in this sphere, particularly among early adopters of new technologies.
… can be found here.
Felix at comments.deasil.com writes in Escaping the Scobleverse:
As another test, go to Friendfeed and click around on people’s profiles and look at the right nav where it lists their subscriptions. These seem to be the 12 most popular people in a person’s list, alphabetized. See how little it varies - if you see something significantly different from Taylor, Brogan, Messina, Pirillo, Winer, Calacanis, Laporte, Le Meur, mashable, Buchheit, arrington, Scoble, Beale, Rubel and Hawk - you’ve found an outlier.
Steve Spalding at How To Split an Atom tells you how to know if you’re an early adopter.
