Services like FriendFeed , Tumbler , and Posterous are essentially personal aggregators. Everything shows up on Steve’s Friendfeed , including comments and discussion. To fork or not to fork? Blogging has been an important part of my life for ten years but now I’m wondering if the party isn’t moving on. Like classrooms in training, blogs will always be around. But also like classrooms, blogs are ceasing to be the primary source of value. MORE

As a way to help groups of developers collaborate more efficiently, the company has also thrown into PR2 Titanium Developer, social media and communications tools such as Twitter, FriendFeed, and a chat capability." ( story link ) " Open source software vendor Appcelerator has delivered the second preview release (PR2) of its rich Internet application platform for developers, called Titanium. MORE

Here's a quick rundown answers to of some common questions that came in via Twitter, Friendfeed and comments. Where is Everyone? Baekdal.com. These days, everyone is trying to figure out how to connect with other people. MORE

April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Not only am I often made aware of new tools, but also get opinions, tips, and examples of their use. MORE

The top section is Flow : aggregators; my favorite read is a river of learning news and I’m toying with Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning , but often I click the link to FriendFeed or Twitter. Feeling lost? MORE

While he's talking primarily about feeds of updates, e.g., facebook, twitter, friendfeed, etc., The post The Future of the News Ecosystem pointed me to the Stephen Johnson Picture shown above. MORE

Looking back at 60 days of blog posts is easier with Friendfeed. Remember this one? I hoard words but often never go back to reflect on what’s there. Photo Review. I’ve posted more than 700 photographs to Flickr since February 1. Here are the 56 photos ` that meant most to me. MORE

Tracking where you’re mentioned is tougher now that conversation on the web takes place on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and numerous other flows. Friendfeed /jaycross. Egoboo is a colloquial expression for the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work. MORE

Friendfeed /jaycross. I did not want to like paper.il, the new, personal Twitter aggregater. Just more clutter, I thought to myself. Nonetheless, it is so easy to set up, I filled in the blank with my Twitter list of Internet Time Alliance colleagues. Voila. Our Daily Tweet-news. MORE

Friendfeed /jaycross. My new car is one year old! How did that happen? Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’ into the future. Midyear already! How did we get here so quickly? It’s making me dizzy. I’m going to reflect on what I’ve been up to in 2009 thus far. Caution: this is what Jon Stewart would call old news. Winter 2009. MacWorld : learning infrastructure and social network infrastructure are converging. Surreal. MORE

Every Buzz item can be turned into a conversation (like in Friendfeed or Wave.) The web is abuzz with talk of Google Buzz. So what is Buzz – simply put it’s a personal aggregator that is coupled to your Gmail account. MORE

I’ve seen discussions and blog posts about appropriate use of social tools like Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and FriendFeed in the workplace. Yesterday my wife got a message on Facebook from a friend asking for advice on how to handle a young teenage girl’s use of MySpace. I instantly went into parent mode and told her how we deal with our teenager. The overall theme of my response was trust and communication. MORE

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And these days I actually find myself monitoring TWITTER and other microblogging aggregators like FriendFeed , and SocialThing more often. There actually does come a point where 518 rss feeds just aren't managable. MORE

I may be pushing it a little, but have you tried FriendFeed yet? Wow! I just saw a Gmail alert for Jane Hart's 600+ Learning Professionals on Twitter Didn't I just blog about 100+ eLearning Professionals to follow on TWITTER ? Why yes.yes I did. (Or Or else that link back there wouldn't work.) MORE

delicious, Picassa, Ning, Google Docs/Google Apps, Second Life, Blogger, iGoogle, orkut, FriendFeed, Internal workplace community, PBWiki, Xing, Digg, Friendster (really?), I've been working with Steve Wexler and the eLearningGuild on the eLearning 2.0 survey and report. MORE

9) Friendfeed (3) Social (54) eLearning Conferences (2) Harbinger (2) PWLE (2) Media (35) SWF (3) Web (55) Performance (28) Drupal (3) Learning (113) eLearning (55) Help (46) PLE (4) Informal (25) Support (31) Adoption (9) Software (28) Online (46) Trends (14) Presentation (23) Business (32) SharePoint (4) Informal Learning (20) Training (44) eLearning Technology. Coming back after a week of being mostly disconnected I'm woefully behind on email and even more so on my reading. MORE

Activity streams, e.g. Jay’s FriendFeed. FriendFeed. Learning Technologies 2009. Track 1 Session 1. Learning technologies: the road ahead. Under the radar: great technologies that you could be using. URL for this page:[link]. TInyURL for this page: [link]. Collaborative Learning; Blip.fm for exploring music (and our soundtrack) MariaFernanda choconancy. Backnoise for back channel, to get more conversations going. Go here to take part. Poll : Jane’s Top 100 List. MORE

micromedia) and activity streams and timelines, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and the like are competing for your attention and building a community around the statusphere - the state of publishing, reading, responding to, and sharing micro-sized updates. MORE

For example, my FriendFeed pages show activity from this blog, the Internet Time Blog, my Flickr account, bookmarks I put on Delicious, and my entries from Twitter. An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. MORE

because my every click will show up on FriendFeed and I’m supposed to be in some fictitious 2:00 meeting. Can’t hide. Other person: “Want to talk at 2:00? <pause> <pause> Me: “No, I’ve got a meeting at 2:00.&# {note: there is no meeting}. Other person: “OK, how about the same time tomorrow?&#. Me: “Sure, 2:00 tomorrow.&#. (Me, Me, silently: Great. Now I can’t Tweet, update my Facebook status, blog, bookmark, etc. MORE

It was brought to my attention by Michelle A Hoyle (London, England) that A J Cann (Leicester, England) is using a combination of Twitter and Friendfeed with his students with some success. An old friend of mine, Carol Daunt (Brisbane, Australia) has single handedly turned me on to Plurk. Plurk, despite its silly name, is a microblogging tool that is at once both jolly good fun and strangely addictive. MORE

I follow people on blogs, Twitter and Friendfeed. Professional learning is increasingly driven by demand, not supply. You decide what you need or want to learn and you go get it when you feel like it. Since you chose your topic rather than being told, you’re more likely to retain information you find. To keep from drowning in the gusher of discoveries, news, and insight on the net, astute foragers use services to filter the noise and present headlines worthy of further investigation. MORE