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FriendFeed is not a lifestream aggregator anymore (at least to me and hundreds of others), it is the perfect platform for sharing and discussing content with groups focused on a specific topic. It is Forums 2.0, if you will and it is precisely what the social web, even with gods like Facebook, Digg, YouTube, and Flickr, are severely lacking

In a nutshell, Twitter is sort of like the Facebook status update and IRC chat rolled into a single social application where people write, read and respond in real time. The result is a kind of live collective unconscious of all those you follow.

Forget what you had for breakfast or how much you hate Mondays. That’s just lifecasting. Mindcasting is where it’s at. The distinction is courtesy of Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu), a journalism professor and new media analyst at New York University. For him, Twitter is a new way to conduct a real-time, multi-way dialogue with thousands of his colleagues and fellow netizens.

...info-sharing and connectivity. Ask people who have made a career out of studying digital media and idea exchange, and you’ll get more superlatives than scoffs. “I’ve been following the blogosphere for a long time,” said Henry Jenkins (@henryjenkins), the head of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies center. As a human-to-human communications medium, he said, “I’ve never seen the scale and volume of the flow of information that Twitter is facilitating.”

Daniel Schorr, a Twitter neophyte who said last week of his new habit, “All of a sudden I’ve discovered this whole way of a civil society existing by simply being able to talk back and forth to each other by way of cyberspace. “It’s a revelation to me and I love it.”