Geekspeak Onomatopoeia
“…When I interviewed Ben Golub yesterday, he told me that RSSmeme crawls FriendFeed via the API to see what people are sharing on Google Reader. I would guess that Techmeme uses at least some of that same data via either FriendFeed or directly from Google Reader. It’s here where the sharing in Google Reader becomes just like a Digg; one person in your circle shares the item, then others do. Some comment on it. Others additionally submit it to Digg and StumbleUpon. And suddenly, you have the same echo chamber effect in FriendFeed that you see on Techmeme…
– from a “Friendfeed, the New Echo Chamber” post by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
Technorati Tags: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, Friendfeed, Social Media, Twitter
