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DEMOfall09 - Gelato is online dating meets social search

by Grant Robertson Sep 22nd 2009

Online dating is a somewhat static market. You have premium players Match.com and eHarmony, who seem to suggest at every commercial break that the person you've been looking for your whole life just signed up a few minutes ago. At the other end of the spectrum, there's Plenty of Fish which, although vastly improved from a few years ago, is still one of the least visually pleasing and user friendly sites on the web. PoF does ridiculous volume and traffic, is free, and doesn't do a stitch of marketing.

Enter new kid on the block, Ge.la.to. Launching today, Gelato takes online dating and mating to the social web. Incorporating your lifestream into the process of getting to know you, while paying a keen eye to keep privacy at a reasonable level.


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Tags: DEMOfall09, lifestreaming, online dating, OnlineDating, social media, SocialMedia

Filed under: Social Software, Web, Microblogging

Facebook acquires FriendFeed

by Brad Linder Aug 10th 2009

FriendFeed
I was going to title this blog post with something funny like "FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request." But FriendFeed beat me to the punch by using the headline in the official announcement on the FriendFeed blog.

So here's the deal. Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a site that few people have heard about, but which social networking nerds love. FriendFeed basically lets you keep track of activity on all of your social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, and dozens of others) from one place. Users can comment on one another's feeds, and nobody's limited to 140 characters.

Over the past few months, Facebook has implemented similar "lifestreaming" features into its own social networking site. The front page of Facebook looks a lot more like FriendFeed or Twitter these days, with real-time updates from your friends activity streams. And you can link some third party social networks to your Facebook account.

As part of the acquisition, the entire FriendFeed team will be joining Facebook, where they will likely bring more of FriendFeed's featureset to Facebook. For now, FriendFeed.com will continue to operate, but it's not clear whether Facebook will continue to operate FriendFeed as a separate site after the transition is complete.

Tags: facebook, friendfeed, lifestreaming

Filed under: Blogging, Social Software

AmpliFeeder: open source lifestreaming

by Jay Hathaway May 27th 2009


If you use a lot of social networking sites, and different groups of your friends are scattered across all of them, it might be time to start a lifestream. AmpliFeeder is an open source platform that pulls in everything you share on other social sites and displays it in one convenient location. It works with tons of sites, including Twitter, Delicious, Upcoming, Last.fm and Facebook.

AmpliFeeder also has a handful of themes to choose from, and supports custom themes using XHTML and CSS. There are no hosted accounts, so you'll have to find a place to put it, but it's extremely easy to set up, once installed. Check out the video walkthrough on the documentation page for a step-by-step guide to getting AmpliFeeder up and running. If you need a solid, easy-to-use lifestreaming platform, this might be worth a look.

Tags: amplifeeder, delicious, facebook, lifestreaming, sharing, social-networking, twitter

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