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Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Vic Mall — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:29:23 -0000

This is a great service I have to admit

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

matt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:08:54 -0000

Freindfeed seems to be going up against social bookmarking sites like digg and stumbleupon. As an online dating and chat rooms webmaster I dont see Friendfeed as a threat

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

matt — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:47:19 -0000

Friendfeed looks to me like another social network site. People often say "not another social network site" Despite the big numbers of chat and social network sites there are only a handfull of well known ones so if a smaller player can make it in such a competitive market I say well done

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Claudia — Mon, 26 May 2008 06:46:28 -0000

Google will buy Friendfeed, just a suggestion ;)

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

webomatica — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:14:48 -0000

Yeah this was a friday night rant - in retrospect I got a little off my usual path :)

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Torley Lives — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:51:12 -0000

Ｆｒｉｅｎｄｌｙｇｒｅｅｔｉｎｇｓ! To the original poster, you mentioned:

"All I want to do is share crap with people, comment on stuff, and feel like part of a community, and maybe meet some new eccentrics - as fast and efficiently as possible."

Have you heard of and tried http://clipmarks.com ? It may do just what you want! What I especially like is how you can selectively share crap ;) by "clipping" the best parts of a webpage. There's definitely a friendly, vibrant community including eccentrics... like me! With the Clipmarks add-on (which I use in Firefox), it's even easier. I'm in solidarity about "fast and efficient"!

Come on over and give it a spin. :)

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

ajaypathak — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:42:36 -0000

very good post about friendfeed i don't know much about friendfeed after reading this i will go for friendfeed not for digg.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

furukama — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:52:59 -0000

I feel at the moment it's only good for topic centered social networking. There simply are no profiles on FF. Just names and pictures. You don't even notice what countries your friends are coming from. As much as I like this postnational networking, it currently is a limit to finding people and connecting. But imagine hovering over the names would pop up a window with all the relevant information from Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing etc. (of course in a customizable display).

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Citizento — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:49:48 -0000

Drug-induced and hilarious, really!!! However a few points are real :))))

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

spuds — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:46:14 -0000

There is still a place for Twitter. In fact I would take Twitter over FF.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Laibcoms — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:45:40 -0000

Nah, it's not really about right or wrong, but more on analysis, that's what makes a good discussion :D

As I've said, FriendFeed is great (I dont use FF coz its the same as FireFox :p ), and I like to add, I see it apart, as not tied-in to Twitter. It has potential to be the "Google" of SNS but they really have to make the product really great and appealing to the type of people who doesn't want to go "beyond" the common apps their circle of friends are using.

Unlike you and me, and the rest of the techies, we test products and see its potential even though our circle doesn't want to join our new, cool, service we've joined. So far, at its current state, FriendFeed won't be able to target the masses. But it is possible. All it takes is their Vision ;)

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Hmm, it seems it's FriendFeed API. I really have to go back with programming. I'm using b2evolution ;) Or maybe ask someone to create a plugin for it for b2evo.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

webomatica — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:21:24 -0000

What... okay. What do I do now? :|

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

webomatica — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:20:19 -0000

Now that I've had about a day to get beyond this post I feel I did get a bit ahead of myself. We'll check back in a year and see how wrong / right I was - I have certainly set myself up to be wrong. As for the FF comment plug in, I found one here (http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpress-plugins/fri...) - I tried to install it on this blog and couldn't get it to work. Perhaps you'll have better luck.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Laibcoms — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:14:03 -0000

I agree. Humanity are into "firsts" then they stick to it. Some even go to "seconds" and "thirds", then they choose. A few even go to "fourths" and "fifths" even, and if they do, they get tired of all these stuff, they finally stick to whichever service most of their friends, colleagues, and networks use.

Example. MySpace and Facebook is popular in the Western world, but not here in the Eastern World. Here in the Philippines alone, Friendster and Multiply are more common than MySpace and Facebook. Why? Most are on those two services, you will never get them out of it anymore. NOT even if you offer money if they stick and invite their friends to whatever-other-service.

Yahoo Messenger for example. YM is hands-down the #1 IM in the Philippines, no other IM service comes close to the number of users YM have here. You won't be able to get most YM Filipinos to create an account on WLM, ICQ, AIM, Skype, Gtalk, not even if they're forced to by their work-bosses. Much more, WLM and YM can communicate already, so there's no need to.

Friendfeed is similar. It will be popular there. It will be popular on niches, but that's about it. I haven't even encountered any Asean (ie South-East Asia) discussion or blog posts about FriendFeed since it started (I can't even remember if I posted a review of it when I was accepted in the beta). But Google Reader, Twitter, Jaiku, and other services FriendFeed can aggregate gets more attention and regular discussions and blog posts here.

If FriendFeed will become the Google of Social Networks, then it has a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way to go.

FriendFeed is great. I use it myself, but not active. The FriendFeed people also provide good quality of service and customer service, which is a big plus for me.

Now, can someone tell me where or how to get that FriendFeed "blog comment" integration thingy? haha... that's the best way to spread FriendFeed in my country and in this region ;)

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

charlieanzman — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:13:57 -0000

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Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

SimpleCipher — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:02:33 -0000

Interesting. I've never heard of FriendFeed before. It is very intriguing. I like the fact that it makes the whole internet a social networking site - not just facebook or myspace or whatever the popular site is any given year.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Podophile — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:01:40 -0000

Well, I've jumped in... Now I just need to figure out how to play.
http://friendfeed.com/zilber

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

webomatica — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:10:02 -0000

Hi Duncan (like the inquisitr btw), I'm glad to hear I'm not totally
off track with my crazy prognosticating. Yeah FF definitely needs more
features, but based on the past relative speediness of the FF crew, I
would count on them continuing to move faster to add such features
than other services.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Mark Lancaster — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:44:25 -0000

Exactly, I was also going to point out Digg & Reddit's parasytic nature in my argument, but it made little sense to include it (it diluted my argument hehe) so I removed it.

I was not particularly aware of the conversation problem with FF and bloggers, not being a blogger myself I dont particularly take notice of these kinds of things. I'm sure Paul@friendfeed is an incredibly intelligent person and will be able to figure out how to fix something like this. It would be fantastic to be able to use friendfeed as an entry point to conversations across multiple blogs if it could auto post into the comment system somehow and ensure it remains threaded.

Oh, and just to make sure, theres nothing wrong with being a fanboy, its a common theme amongst internet folk. Passion is great, blind zealous fanaticism is umm... not so good. Dont drink the Kool-Aid!

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

duncanriley — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:28:51 -0000

Definitely on the right track, although FF is still lacking some of the features to get it to the point you suggest...although I think that it is definitely heading in that direction. Once it enables full two-way social networking interaction (as Google's never launch SocialStream proposed) we have destination No. 1 online for everything.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Nathan_Lanier — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:09:25 -0000

But that's not to say that they aren't providing a genuinely innovative and useful tool for early adopters, information junkies, and tech news followers.

The only issue they face is that their service doesn't solve any problems for the average user. The average user has already developed highly effective habits of sharing information.

Anyway, great thought provoking post - keep up the good work!

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

webomatica — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:47:02 -0000

Good point. I haven't tried telling "average joe" folks about
friendfeed, and their reaction would be a good measure of if it has
any mainstream appeal.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Nathan_Lanier — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:30:42 -0000

Except when a typical user hears about Friend Feed from a friend, they visit the site and don't understand the point. "I already have a Facebook account I use, what's this friend feed business??"

When Google was new there was an instant "a-ha" moment upon visiting the site. It was like magic. Friend Feed doesn't even come close to having the broad appeal of a Google, or a Facebook or Myspace for that matter.

It's a useful service that serves a large niche quite well, but it will never be anything beyond that.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Janet — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:16:04 -0000

Great points and I too hope FriendFeed is thinking about scalability now instead of when it's too late like Twitter.Friend Feed is growing on me and I'm just plain over FBook. When FriendFeed adds IM and a mobile app I'll be all over it.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

webomatica — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:47:04 -0000

I'm starting a line for whatever FriendFeed announces next.