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POPSBackupify: Online Account Backup "Free Forever For A Limited Time" Backupify is currently offering free unlimited accounts to anyone who signs up before January 31st. I confirmed that these free accounts will remain free forever even after their new pricing scheme goes into effect. You also may want to consider that the Backupify service needs your login information for each of the accounts it is going to perform automatic backups on. If, for some reason your Backupify account were ever compromised it could lead to your other accounts being compromised as well. Backupify only stores physical passwords for certain sites that require it such as Gmail. With other sites they only store the password token or cookie that is necessary to login to your account. In any case Backupify states that they, "use advanced encryption methods to keep your login credentials safe."
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POPSGoogle Wave Rolls Out to 100,000 Users Tomorrow The idea is to drag email and IM into real-time—so it's free-wheeling mesh of Twitter, IM, Friendfeed really, any other kind of service presenting semi-real-time stuff in a stream. But in Google Wave, you can share and collaborate on projects, and all of this is mashed together at once, so it might be the ultimate service for people with ADD, or enterprise looking to simulate the feeling of 10 people standing around a desk scattered with a bunch of projects, but you're all able to work on any of them simultaneously while you're also whispering to the cute girl across the table about the new sushi place around the corner. You start a wave with any message or photo or whatever, and you bring people into the discussion, and then they can bring other people in as well (unless you block it or start kicking people out) so it's as public or private as you want it to be.
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POPSWhy good teachers quit (hint: it's not just "burnout") This is a point I've made over and over again -- we live in a society that does not value education, period. We might pay lip service to the work teachers do, but at the same time, Americans tend to look down on teaching as a profession for "nice" people without a lot of ambition. They're not respected by students, by parents, by school administrators, or by the culture at large, and teachers are frequently used as convenient scapegoats for a whole range of societal failures. No wonder good people decide not to stay.
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POPSClipmarks has been downloaded how many times? I was pretty surprised to see these numbers. Plus there are reviews, negative and positive. Even when the whole world is using Twitter (even including the clipdaddies here) I say this site still rocks!
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POPSGolan Levin and Collaborators Just had this thought, watching Golan levin's art, that our humanity is made of meaning. meaning, we find that which is meaningful in close proximity to us. whether it is an eye on a moving stock. or shapes generated by software, it is NOT not like us. I find this thought worth further development.
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POPSFacebook Buys FriendFeed This is a bad deal! I have accounts on Facebook, FriendFeed and Twitter. On a scale of 1-10, I rate them 8, 5, and 2, respectively. I don't want lowly '2' buying average '5' so it can wipe out the very useful '8'. Bummer!
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POPSThe Future of Social Networking is...Email?!
I've been thinking about this very idea recently and then came across this article from @jeremiah. I was mostly coming at it from a product and user experience perspective. It seemed that a some of the 3rd party services based on Twitter (and Twitter too) have been coming full circle and deploying email-like strategies for both functionality (routing, groups, etc.) as well as the presentation layer (check out seesmic's list view on the web). Think also about how important email is to Twitter and facebook's user experience: where would they be without "now following" or "comment" emails? In the meantime, while those guys duke it out, Google has been infusing the social piece into their apps, and they've been doing it for some time now. With the recent social networking enhancements to GReader (in addition to GShare) they seem to be at it in ernest. Given the reliance on emails to bridge relationships between user/service and user/user, plus the adoption of gmail (among other G built pl
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POPSFeedalizr-Awesome Social Media Monitoring Application
Feedalizr is one of the most versatile of of Social Media Monitoring Applications to date. It provides full client support for Twitter. I love how easy it is to drag and drop photos into your Tweets. The "Hot Topics" scrolling hashtags keeps you up on the latest. All one has to do is click on a topic and the latest tweets on the topic open up into another tab. There is more to this application than Tweet Deck or Seesmic have to offer. I love the way you can easily post 10 photos to Flickrs simply by dragging them to an open space. I can also see my friends latest updates on Flickr. Posting comments to Facebook is easy without ever having to login. Your friends latest comments on Facebook can be viewed in an attractive Feedalizr window. The screen for viewing all these accounts are similar in size to any instant messaging screen. Those who use Friendfeed can easily post or monitor friends comments in Feedalizr also. Short Videos is a feature which let's you post videos
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POPS@davewiner gets it wrong on retweeting and ignores clipmarks First of all, a retweet is absolutely not the same as voting something up on Digg or Reddit. Retweeting causes something to immediately jump to the top of the feed for any user following the person who does the retweet. Digg and Reddit most certainly do not work this way. Second, this is exactly what popping a clip on clipmarks.com does...but not surprisingly, this was not mentioned. I really can't help but wonder why clipmarks.com is so often overlooked by the media as they jerk off about so-called new functionality from twitter, friendfeed and facebook. There's no doubt that those three sites have far surpassed clipmarks in regards to size. But so damn many of their features are things clipmarks introduced years ago. Another example of this is the real time FriendFeed that @scobleizer is so wowed by...clipmarks has worked that way for years, yet he acts like this is revolutionary. I don't get it.
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POPSIs @scobleizer part of friendfeed? I have always been under the impression that Robert is not affiliated with the company friendfeed. Maybe that's wrong. And i certainly don't want to jump the gun. But after reading this comment he posted, it seems odd that he referred to friendfeed as "we". Being that he is such an influential member of the social web, i'd be interested in knowing if there is an affiliation there.
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POPSPeopleBrowsr PeopleBrowsr is a simple visual dashboard that adds more power to Twitter, your other online identities and those of your friends.
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POPSSome Sites Clipped from a sheet just ready for bookmarking. The links here will take you away.
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