 |
User: Login |
Weblog covering digital business
Digital Business, Live From New York. |
| Address URL | http://www.alleyinsider.com/ Registered: 22-Mar-2008 |
| Ads: | |
 Send to email | Chat Amongst Yourselves: Firefly Is An "ADD Twitter" in General |  By Silicon
el 14-May-2008 | Ever have the desire to chat about a Web page you're reading, but find all the standard options: email, IM, Twitter, commenting on the page itself, etc - not nearly fast enough? Billy Chasen feels your pain, and his Firefly app may solve your problem.
Billy is one of the in-house tech guys at Betaworks, the incubator that's not an incubator, and Firefly is one of the first things they've built from scratch, as opposed to investing in. In short, it lets users on a given Web page see each other, via a flickering, ghost-like cursor, and lets them chat in real time.
Billy tried demoing Firefly at last night's NY Tech Meetup, but was foiled by tech problems. But even if he had been able to show it off properly, you can't really get a sense of how this works until you're actually playing with it (the screenshot below doesn't do it justice, either). We're not ready to turn it on here at SAI, but Betaworks advisor Dave Winer has offered up his blog as a guinea pig: Go check it out here. We concur with the commenter who describes it as an "ADD Twitter". And we think that in this case that's a good thing.
Firefly is a classic "feature not a business" Web 2.0 product, though we can imagine that Billy and the Betaworks guy could actually turn it into a business, if they get lucky. Perhaps they can charge individual web sites $5 or $10 a year to install the service: The obvious upside for publishers would be a huge uptick in time spent/engagement (the fact that almost all Web publishers are most concerned with page views above and beyond everything else is a separate story). Or perhaps someone at Facebook, Yahoo, or Bebo takes a look at this and realizes this just makes plenty of sense as a tuck-in acquisition. Or maybe it just joins the ranks of the countless "Neat. So what?" applets we've seen during Boom 2.0. But we think that would be a shame.
BETAWORKSfirefly.jpg: Paste this image in your site, Myspace, Facebook, Ebay copy this code...
Read 5 times
|
|
 |
| Chat Amongst Yourselves: Firefly Is An "ADD Twitter" | | Ever have the desire to chat about a Web page you're reading, but find all the standard options: email, IM, Twitter, commenting on the page itself, etc - not nearly fast enough? Billy Chasen feels your pain, and his Firefly app may solve your problem.
Billy is one of the in-house tech guys at Betaworks, the incubator that's not an incubator, and Firefly is one of the first things they've [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-May-2008 by Silicon in General
Read 5 times. More hits in   |
|
 | Joystiq |  Blogger | Covers video game news from an independent, unbiased perspective
Joystiq Joystiq |
| Joystiq | Blogger | Covers video game news from an independent, unbiased perspective
Joystiq Joystiq |
| Firefly's Badger leads The Conduit voice cast |  Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Action, Business
The Conduit may still lack a publisher, but what it does have is a sad little king of a sad little hill. High Voltage announced that it has cast Firefly's Badger, Mark A. S [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Oct-2008 by Jason Dobson in fireflyherculeshigh-voltagethe-conduit
Read 0 times. More hits in |
|
| Nokia launches location-aware chat client |  This actually kind of neat… Nokia has just launched a limited trial run of its new chat client. The aptly named Nokia Chat comes to us by way of Nokia labs, and takes advantage of the built-in GPS found in many recent Nokia handsets to provide your chat buddies with location and proximity information. Sure, [...]
[..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Jul-2008 by Joshua Karp in GPSNokiachate-seriesn-series
Read 7 times. More hits in |
|
| fav.or.it Founder Fires at Twitter and the Blogosphere, Fixes Twitter for Free |  Call it a modern anomaly, herd mentality or whatever else you want but Twitter seems to continue to grow in popularity as its downtime issues get more pronounced. Amidst recent news of a successful funding round, Twitter’s problems keep getting worse as buzz throughout the blogosphere questions Twitter’s staying power. Is it really that hard [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Zach Epstein in NetworksServicesdowntimefav.or.itNick HalsteadstabilityTwitter
Read 8 times. More hits in |
|
| Twitter Mainstream? Not Yet | | "A source close" to Twitter provides TechCrunch with what is supposedly the first realistic assessment of Twitter usage stats. Conclusion: It's a lot more popular than it used to be, but still con [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Apr-2008 by Silicon in General
Read 12 times. More hits in |
|
|
Warning We are not responsible of information posted from external feeds. Use this website at your own risk.
Notice: We will not be liable for any direct or indirect loss or damage arising under this disclaimer or in connection with our website, whether arising in tort, contract, or otherwise.
|
|
| |
Hello, Guest
Online: 52 visitors
+ fotos
Have something brilliant to say about a blog post or news story, but find leaving a comment and waiting for replies too slow? Then you'l [..] 
Filed under: PC, MMO
Okay, we reacted with violent disbelief to the recent news that Multiverse, the company behind the heard-but-not-seen MMO based on Firefly, would produce a second MMO using yet another [..] 
A neat new tool for companies that are looking to use Twitter for marketing: Twittertise, which lets you schedule Twitter messages in advance to send automatically.
What's the point? Twitter i [..] 
Twitter has acquired Twitter search engine Summize -- or has it?
The deal was first reported by English blogger Josh Chandler; Path 101 founder Charlie O'Donnell confirms th [..] 
