Comments on: FriendFeed Syndicates Your Life http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Why Facebook Wants FriendFeed http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-965985 Why Facebook Wants FriendFeed Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:14:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-965985 <p>[...] As I have written in the past, content creation, distribution and consumption are amidst a sea change. Whether it is photos, videos, tweets, status updates or whatever … the content is getting constantly atomized. In order to consume it all, we need to find a smarter tools for content consumption. FriendFeed is one of them. “It’s a Facebook news feed for the whole web,” wrote Liz Gannes in her initial profile of FriendFeed in 2007. [...]</p> [...] As I have written in the past, content creation, distribution and consumption are amidst a sea change. Whether it is photos, videos, tweets, status updates or whatever … the content is getting constantly atomized. In order to consume it all, we need to find a smarter tools for content consumption. FriendFeed is one of them. “It’s a Facebook news feed for the whole web,” wrote Liz Gannes in her initial profile of FriendFeed in 2007. [...]

]]> By: FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-887374 FriendFeed. More Like (Fake)FriendFeed - GigaOM Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:45:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-887374 <p>[...] From what I understood, FriendFeed was about aggregating and sharing specific kind of information with your friends and talking about it. I thought it was me who would invite friends, and get them to share stuff with me. Or someone else would invite me, and we would share. Where the hell did defaults and “discovering” others become part of the whole service. [...]</p> [...] From what I understood, FriendFeed was about aggregating and sharing specific kind of information with your friends and talking about it. I thought it was me who would invite friends, and get them to share stuff with me. Or someone else would invite me, and we would share. Where the hell did defaults and “discovering” others become part of the whole service. [...]

]]> By: searchgov http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-880589 searchgov Wed, 28 May 2008 17:33:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-880589 <p>what is the business model? - driving traffic and lets have advertising revenue?</p> what is the business model? – driving traffic and lets have advertising revenue?

]]> By: free market research http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-880587 free market research Wed, 28 May 2008 17:32:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-880587 <p>aggregation is the MANTRA to succeed in the market</p> aggregation is the MANTRA to succeed in the market

]]> By: Strands Tries New Social, Relaunches - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-880575 Strands Tries New Social, Relaunches - GigaOM Wed, 28 May 2008 16:01:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-880575 <p>[...] activity aggregation service. The company hopes to take the lifestreaming features offered by web 2.0 darling FriendFeed a step further by adding the ability to build a “taste profile” based on your social [...]</p> [...] activity aggregation service. The company hopes to take the lifestreaming features offered by web 2.0 darling FriendFeed a step further by adding the ability to build a “taste profile” based on your social [...]

]]> By: At SwitchAbit, Twittergram Shares A Common Future - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-875385 At SwitchAbit, Twittergram Shares A Common Future - GigaOM Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:05:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-875385 <p>[...] to manage these web services, both as a content publisher and as a content consumer. If Iminta and FriendFeed are trying to solve the content consumption problem, then SwitchAbit can handle the publishing side [...]</p> [...] to manage these web services, both as a content publisher and as a content consumer. If Iminta and FriendFeed are trying to solve the content consumption problem, then SwitchAbit can handle the publishing side [...]

]]> By: Kelly Abbott http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-606266 Kelly Abbott Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:22:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-606266 <p><a href="http://dandelife.com" rel="nofollow">Dandelife</a> has 7,000 members currently and features a very similar "streams" narrative along with in a social network <em>slash</em> life-blog setting. Though I'd love to have been the first with this idea, I can attest to 30boxes claiming that rank. Honestly, not a huge feature for us at Dandelife. But it would be interesting to see if having some ex-googs touting the benefits of friend feeds to validate us all.</p> Dandelife has 7,000 members currently and features a very similar “streams” narrative along with in a social network slash life-blog setting. Though I’d love to have been the first with this idea, I can attest to 30boxes claiming that rank. Honestly, not a huge feature for us at Dandelife. But it would be interesting to see if having some ex-googs touting the benefits of friend feeds to validate us all.

]]> By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » In NYC - blogging http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594836 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » In NYC - blogging Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:40:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594836 <p>[...] Everybody seems to like FriendFeed.  What a great feature to have!  Subscribing to people - is the way of the future. [...]</p> [...] Everybody seems to like FriendFeed.  What a great feature to have!  Subscribing to people – is the way of the future. [...]

]]> By: Gluing the Web Together with FriendFeed http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594670 Gluing the Web Together with FriendFeed Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:25:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594670 <p>[...] just wrote about how YouTube was started by former PayPal employees. There’s a new social media site called FriendFeed, written about in Gigaom today. It was started by former Google employees. [...]</p> [...] just wrote about how YouTube was started by former PayPal employees. There’s a new social media site called FriendFeed, written about in Gigaom today. It was started by former Google employees. [...]

]]> By: Liz Gannes http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594652 Liz Gannes Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:12:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594652 <p>Narendra, FriendFeed does have an "imaginary friend" feature that lets you add non-members' public feeds. You're right, it similar to what you guys do.</p> <p>Does anyone know if any of these other services have a significant amount of users? I had not heard of a lot of them. Unless these are just going to be passive social feedreaders, it seems really important to get all your friends on the same platform.</p> Narendra, FriendFeed does have an “imaginary friend” feature that lets you add non-members’ public feeds. You’re right, it similar to what you guys do.

Does anyone know if any of these other services have a significant amount of users? I had not heard of a lot of them. Unless these are just going to be passive social feedreaders, it seems really important to get all your friends on the same platform.

]]> By: suzannekendrick http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594616 suzannekendrick Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:44:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594616 <p>Another very similar concept is Plaxo's latest Pulse. Personally I find it too invasive.</p> Another very similar concept is Plaxo’s latest Pulse. Personally I find it too invasive.

]]> By: Edison Thomaz http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594610 Edison Thomaz Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:39:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594610 <p>As everyone here points out, there are lots of similar aggregators. The one that comes to mind to me is <a>MugShot</a>. They've been doing this for a while now.</p> <p><a href="http://www.slifeshare.com" rel="nofollow">Slifeshare</a> is our take on sharing activities to keep in touch with friends/colleagues. Not based on other's feeds.</p> As everyone here points out, there are lots of similar aggregators. The one that comes to mind to me is MugShot. They’ve been doing this for a while now.

Slifeshare is our take on sharing activities to keep in touch with friends/colleagues. Not based on other’s feeds.

]]> By: Paul Buchheit http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594594 Paul Buchheit Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:25:58 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594594 <p>Thanks for the review Liz.</p> <p>Your concerns about the product are very reasonable, and I think shared by many of our users. Our primary reason for launching early is so that we can hear from real users as soon as possible and improve the product to meet their needs.</p> <p>One solution to the "entering all of your friends again" problem is to install the FriendFeed FaceBook app. If any of your FaceBook friends also have the FriendFeed app installed, then they will automatically be added to your FriendFeed. We're also exploring several other options for quickly finding your friends on FriendFeed.</p> Thanks for the review Liz.

Your concerns about the product are very reasonable, and I think shared by many of our users. Our primary reason for launching early is so that we can hear from real users as soon as possible and improve the product to meet their needs.

One solution to the “entering all of your friends again” problem is to install the FriendFeed FaceBook app. If any of your FaceBook friends also have the FriendFeed app installed, then they will automatically be added to your FriendFeed. We’re also exploring several other options for quickly finding your friends on FriendFeed.

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594593 Mark Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:25:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594593 <p>You can build your own friendfeed using Simplepie<a> in less than an hour. There are even wordpress plugins that do this. I don't see how they can build a company around this. Although I do see it having a decent future as a facebook app.</p> You can build your own friendfeed using Simplepie in less than an hour. There are even wordpress plugins that do this. I don’t see how they can build a company around this. Although I do see it having a decent future as a facebook app.

]]> By: Jade http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594388 Jade Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:38:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594388 <p>It is nice to know when my friends uploaded new photos on Flickr, but as written above me, it's not a new thing. I'm using <a href="http://www.8hands.com" rel="nofollow">8hands</a> for my updates upon any activity on my profiles and some of my friends profiles.</p> It is nice to know when my friends uploaded new photos on Flickr, but as written above me, it’s not a new thing. I’m using 8hands for my updates upon any activity on my profiles and some of my friends profiles.

]]> By: Narendra http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594372 Narendra Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:18:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/03/friendfeed/#comment-594372 <p>I sure hope we aren't going to be subjected to media interest in every new thing put out by ex-Google employees!</p> <p><a href="http://30boxes.com" rel="nofollow">30 Boxes</a> has been doing this for more than 18 months and you don't need your friends to be registered to get updates...</p> I sure hope we aren’t going to be subjected to media interest in every new thing put out by ex-Google employees!

30 Boxes has been doing this for more than 18 months and you don’t need your friends to be registered to get updates…

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