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You told your friends ….

Jayvee Fernandez — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:08:09 +0000

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.

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You told your friends ….

WebSlides Turns Bookmarks Into Slideshows

Jayvee Fernandez — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:21:47 +0000

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.

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WebSlides Turns Bookmarks Into Slideshows

eBay Buys StumbleUpon, Google Launches Competitor on Same Day

Jayvee Fernandez — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:41:12 +0000

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. Perhaps the human-powered haphazardness of StumbleUpon does suit them more.

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eBay Buys StumbleUpon, Google Launches Competitor on Same Day