You told your friends ….
January 7, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Because you told your friends, Twitter.com/fwdfwdfwd went offline and deleted its account over the holidays.
But now they’re back, and they’re starting from scratch.
Remember, don’t tell your friends.
FWDFWDFWD is a microblog for kick ass products and services. They don’t post very often, but when they do, the news is always interesting.
Please, don’t tell you friends.
WebSlides Turns Bookmarks Into Slideshows
September 14, 2007 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Since most of my presentations are largely guided tours of pertinent Web services, this baby will save me a ton of time. Combine site syndication and social bookmarking with presentations and you get WebSlides, a service from social bookmarking service Diigo that turns RSS feeds and bookmark lists into annotated browser slideshows. When sourced from social software, slideware suddenly seem a whole lot less evil.
eBay Buys StumbleUpon, Google Launches Competitor on Same Day
April 19, 2007 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Wow, that was fast. On the same day eBay buys StumbleUpon for $40 million, Google launches a competitive service for the Google Toolbar. The latter now includes a dice icon that takes you to sites you might find interesting based on your previous search queries. Google was also bidding for StumbleUpon, but having a competitive service in the oven — one that relies on searchbots instead of humans, in line with Google’s strength — probably kept them from bidding too high.
eBay, on the other hand, has been more directly human-powered from day one. Same with their other recent acquisition, Skype. …read more




