ScribeFire, the Firefox plugin formerly known as Performancing for Firefox, and now a company within its own right, but not to be confused with Performancing the blog and Performancing Metrics, which is now owned by another company for which the owner of this site has some involvment, has announced that Chris Fincke, formerly of Netscape has joined the company/ plugin.

In a first for me, the news was broken exclusively by Nick Wilson, formerly of ThreadWatch, then previously with Performancing, then with Performancing again, who then sold Performancing yet kept the plugin that became ScribeFire, then launched a company of the same name… on his Twitter account.

Unfortunately I can’t provide any background on Fincke, Google + Technorati keeps telling me Fincke is either a Soccer Player, or a “fancier of fine horses” who had the first rubber tire buggy in 1901.

It’s time to lay down now, its been one of those days :-)

Originally posted on March 15, 2007 @ 3:25 am

It’s about bloody time, right?

The directory is pretty easy to browse and is a sure bet for bloggers looking to bling-bling their blog with either functionality or trivialities. A good move from the WordPress folks.

Originally posted on March 16, 2007 @ 3:49 am

Being a gamer as well as a games journo, I’m thrilled that Wikia have launched a gaming wiki magazine. Actually, thrilled might be an overstatement, but I’m at least curious to see how it turns out in the end since there’s a lot of ambitious writers out there.

The gaming wiki magazine is called gaming.wikia and follows the Wikia style that we know from other publications within the brand. In other words, it could look a lot better.

Three other wiki magazines where launched as well, covering health, music and cars.

Originally posted on March 16, 2007 @ 3:43 am

Twitter mania continues at full speed ahead, indeed a casual visit to Techmeme would suggest that little else currently matters in the world of Web 2.0. The latest:

Web1979 posts that Twitter is a phase that is bound to end this year:

I make no bones about my disdain for Twitter. I’ve commented far and wide about the inanity and potential danger of the tool, and even discussed some of the associated social repercussions on this blog. But I’d like to now go one step further, and predict its imminent supernova-like implosion.

Wired covers a vibrator that provides pleasure in sync with Twitter feeds (I kid you not).

Waxy tracks Twitters growth with some cool graphs.

Steve Rubel reviews a Google Maps/ Twitter Mashup. Cool, except no one will be looking at the SW corner of Western Australia when I post…perhaps I should tell Twitter I live in New York like my Skype in Number would indicate :-)

Creating Passionate Users says that face to face beats Twitter, and has some cool graphs to support the proposition.

The Wall Street Journal jumps on the Twitter hype wagon with a pro-Twitter fluff piece. You know something is big when it makes the WSJ.

Webware provides a decent Newbie’s Guide to Twitter, a must read if you still don’t get it!

Horse Pig Cow says I was using Twitter before you were. Do we care? probably not.

If you want to subscribe to my twitter feed: www.twitter.com/duncanriley. I’m giving it a shot, it’s kind of fun and liberating, although the proof of the value will only be measure over time.

Originally posted on March 16, 2007 @ 1:53 am

Web 2.0 champions of the world, celebrate! Wiki is now officially a real English word, with the Oxford English Dictionary adding it to its latest online edition.

Reuters quotes Oxford English Dictionary editor John Simpson stating that “Words are included in the dictionary on the basis of the documentary evidence that we have collected about them. A while ago this evidence suggested that wiki was starting to make a name for itself”.

The Oxford English Dictionary was establish in the mid 19th century (according to Wikipedia) and is one of the most highly regarded of all English Dictionaries, cataloging proper English spellings (as opposed to US English spellings) for millions world wide.

Originally posted on March 15, 2007 @ 6:44 pm