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Caprica

The Editor — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:02:12 +0000

I just can’t wait for Caprica to start, hopefully Zoe Graystone can hold me over. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: caprica, zoe-graystone

Twitter Search to Become “Discovery Engine”

The Editor — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:13:16 +0000

Today Twitter co-founder Biz posted a blog post outlining the details of their new “Discovery Engine,” which is basically search built into your home page. Apparently the folks at Twitter have realized that search.twitter.com isn’t the greatest implementation of search ever and want to change that. Biz says that currently, a small number of Twitter users are [...]

Digg Launches DiggBar, StumbleUpon-ish Toolbar

The Editor — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:26:56 +0000

Today Digg announced that they’ll begin rolling out a new product they’re calling the DiggBar. According to Digg, the DiggBar allows you to: Digg directly on the destination site: No more awkward toggling between the story page and Digg. Easily share stories: You can now create a shortened Digg URL to share on Twitter, Facebook or via email. [...]

Twits That’ll Teach You Something

The Editor — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:08:53 +0000

Today Mashable posted a list of 18 People to Follow for a Real Time Education, the list was kind of long, so here it is in a nut shell: @cspenn @JOHNABYRNE @jowyang @Kanter @MarketingProfs @chrisbrogan @PRsarahevans @missrogue @mediaphyter @jayrosen_nyu @laureltouby @Meryl333 @shelisrael @2020science @levyj413 @chrisheuer @brianstelter @fec139 I can’t make any promises to teach you anything, but it would be great if you followed @Duhh too! Posted in twitter Tagged: duhh, prof, teacher, tweet, twitter [...]

Buzz Opens to Everyone

The Editor — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:44:21 +0000

Buzz, Yahoo’s effort to annihilate Digg and AOL’s Propeller has finally upened up the the public. Untill now content could only be added from sites that used Yahoo Publisher Network ads, allowing Yahoo to test the waters and filter out smaller spam sites easily. Unfortunately for Buzz it’s hardly compairable to Digg or Propeller due to [...]

I’m Not Spam And Blogcatalog Should Know That

The Editor — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:04:30 +0000

After the Duhh blog relocated to our new domain (duhhblog.wordpress.com) I’ve gone throught the process of changing the adress on Technorati and updating everything to reflect this change. But when I submitted the new domain to Blogcatalog, Duhh was rejected as spam: The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam. The [...]

SMS is Gone, But Everything Will Be OK

The Editor — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:35:29 +0000

Two days ago Twitter came out and said that they would no longer be “delivering outbound SMS over our UK number.” Meaning that everyone not in the US, India and Canada wouldn’t be able to receive updates to their phone, while users can still send messages to the UK number for them to be posted [...]

Twitter Buys Summize

The Editor — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:54:53 +0000

As expected Twitter had bought Summize as announced by the Twitter blog. Unfortunatly for the guys behind Summize the Twitter search platform will no longer be Summize and the Summize domain now points to Search.Twitter.com. In the post however Twitter neglected to mention what Twitter will do now that they can’t use the Summize servers and [...]

People Don’t Care About Twitter Downtime

The Editor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:25:57 +0000

TechCrunch once said that Twitter may not have to worry about uptime any more because “I now need Twitter more than Twitter needs me.” After hours of downtime every month and even if the early adopters have migrated to Friendfeed the masses are content to stay and wait it out. Hitwise has released their latest Twitter [...]

Twitter might buy Summize

The Editor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:18:52 +0000

Summize is a service that allows you to search Twitter conversations in real time, and for awaile now Summize has been one of the four third party developers with access to their XMPP stream. Twitter in the past had also directed smaller third party developers to Summize to help reduce the load on Twitter’s own XMPP. Earlier [...]

FriendFeed Conversations Better Than Twitter?

The Editor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:13:31 +0000

TechCrunch posted an article about how much more conversation goes on at FriendFeed and how many followers you can get at FriendFeed compared to Twitter. Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing – many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of [...]

Reddit Image Previews

The Editor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:09:59 +0000

Digg had had image previews for images and video’s for a while now and with the new open source Reddit, they’ve finally gotten around to adding it. Reddit announced the image previews in this cool blog post.

Digg Recomondation Engine Revealed

The Editor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:04:10 +0000

When TechCrunch leaked pictures of the Digg Recomondation Engine they were right on the ball. The same day Kevin posted on Digg Blog explaining the engine with a cool video, how Kevin of him. Eventually TechCrunch posted an update confirming the Recomondation Engine was out with a longer and better explaination. [...]

A Little Make-Over

The Editor — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:24:09 +0000

Even the hottest blogs need need a little makeover now and then and now it’s Duhh’s turn. As you can see we’ve edited the header image to better reflect where we are now. Plus the social bookmarking buttons to the left side of each post have been updated with more sites. You can leave any feedback about the [...]

Sociable Is Updated Again

The Editor — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:30:58 +0000

Thats right, it came time to update Sociable to 2.3.0 and we’ve got a few improvements, it works on the latest versions of WordPress plus we’ve removed some of the links that don’t work. The changelog goes something like this: TailRank was removed as they removed the community submission aspect to go a more meme-tracker aproach [...]