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Comcast Buys Then Burns Chirp Users
Comcast's thePlatform Buys Social Media Developer Chirp | Digital Media Wire
"While Chirp has launched applications that combine social networking with media consumption, thePlatform said it will not continue Chirp's existing services, but will instead build new community and content discovery features using Chirp technology into its media publishing system."
A while back I discussed how cool the company called Chirp was. I really thought they were going places the way they integrated Flickr and Twitter into a screensaver. I guess Comcast felt the same way! The sad part is that they will totally mesh Chirp technology into their future endeavours without keeping the existing apps.
This reminds me of the time when Disney bought and merged among others, Chilton. Now around that time I also worked there and we were so excited about the potential benefits to working under Disney. Not long after, Chilton was dissolved. A power house of automobile manual publishing gone just like that.
Funny enough, we aren't too worried about Yahoo once Microsoft buys them. We are all honestly worried about Flickr and our precious pictures on their servers. Forget Delicious and the merging of yahoo mail with hotmail. The concern is that MSFT when stick their dirty fingers into our Flickr lemonade, pretending the flavor is still sweet. I know that's nasty but that's what's going to happen....Trust me
Photo Hawk
My wife doesn't let me use her camera anymore. She's more of a "portrait" person. She calls me "abstract" and I'm fine with that. Many other people though can be and do both. Take Thomas Hawk for instance. He's someone I met on www.Friendfeed.com . You can find him here: http://www.thomashawk.com/
Is Flickr Gonna Make It?
I really hope www.Flickr.com survives the www.yahoo.com meltdown. You want to know why? I was perusing through the beautiful photos online and noticed I can blog about any pic made public. O rly??? This is so cool. Anytime I feel the pressure from blogging daily I can just type in a subject and use the picture as inspiration!!!! Is that selfish? Do you have Pics you would like me to showcase? Let me know: solacetech@gmail.com
I want Qik too!
Why doesn't att sell the nokia n95 or n96? I really want to use www.qik.com but the phones sold for the US are How you say, crappy. You can go to the site yourself to see but the selection isn't pretty. Nokias work the best with it's S60 operating system.
The good news is that now the iphone can be used with qik now. The bad news is that you have to crack it to make it work, and the camera isn't that good. Oh well, i'm waiting on the api so someone can make a java version for regular camera phones...
Twitter's revival
This has been a good week. I had a cheesesteak today. My freelance gig is going permanent and twitter has made up with gtalk! Yes folks, twittering is back. Did you miss it? Have you left plurk to come back home? I tried plurk but i couldn't get use to it's kindergarden interface. Everytime i went there i fought the urge to finger paint. Yes Twitter does still go down but until someone creates something better, i'm stuck, i mean i'm sticking with twitter...
