Open Mode

I was so confused. Why did people always call using Posterous “Life-streaming”? At first looking at it, the service was much more a blog with some nice features, but certainly not anything close to life-streaming. What I soon realized after a day of research was that the concept of life-streaming had changed without me knowing [...]

Who would have ever guessed that the Twitter phenomenon would have ever had such a far reaching design influence on other social web services? Here’s just a short list of some site’s I’ve found that have been released, or made a change to their site design that now appear to be more Twitter like:

FriendFeed Beta
Facebook
PostRank
Blellow

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