Please DM or email me the deets when embargoes are broken. Many have done so in the past. I keep this info private, obviously.

Do you know why I like Nic Cage movies? Because he's usually the bad guy that turns good before the movie's done. I don't mean in a drunk Bruce Willis way, but in a "The establishment" Techmeme way. This week's buzz has been between Louis Gray's and Profy's Svetlana Gladkova's post about Embargoes.

The Creator of Techmeme, Gabe Rivera just minutes ago "tweeted" company reps, asking them to let him know who's giving up the goods before it's time. Well this should answer the Question "How do you stop Embargoes from being broken?" Hit the bloggers where it hurts...their traffic/pockets.... What do you think?

louisgray.com

"After 18 months of progressing beyond the rookie stages of product development, Ballhype, the sports story discovery, submission and voting site, announced this morning that they have been acquired by Future US, a San Francisco-based media company."

Let's face it, after Digg gained popularity, everyone tried to catch their lightning in a bottle. Jason Calacanis tried by hiring the top diggers for his AOL led site and countless others have tried via Content Management Sites (CMS). Even I kept my "click if you like" plus sign, although every post goes to the front page. What's refreshing though is to see a good formula at work. Ballhype is a great sports social site and to see it gain success like this makes me look forward to seeing Old Media scoop up more deserving networks...
http://louisgray.disqus.com/louisgraycom_ballhype_acquired_by_future_us_...

There are a thousand websites/programs out there that all do the exact same thing. Nowadays the thing to do is to gather all of your favorite info sites via rss feeds and mash them into one site. Google reader is probably the most popular place for that as well as RSSMEME. Now, after you've organized your stuff there, say you came across Netvibes or Newsgator. What do you do next? Shuffle between these three sites? No, you go to Readburner and mash the three together.
This is the future folks. With companies opening up their software via "API", imitation isn't the thing to do, adding to the original software is what's hot! Take for example Friendfeed. Great place blah blah blah we know that , but how do we use it on our phone? Try fftogo. OK, how about adding stuff to it via instant messaging? Here: http://www.mojipage.com/ . Well what if you want to "tweak" and use apml on friendfeed? Use Noiseriver for that. I won't go into it because Louis Gray already did that. My point today is to highlight how imitation is not really the highest form of flattery. Finding a way to make someone's software even better is the coolest thing! Thank WEB 2.0 for that...

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