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Hmm. Twitter integrated in Google Reader? Would this really deliver something better than FriendFeed already does? - Matthias Schwenk

@Matthias: it could be just another entry point and "perspective" on twitter mentions on RSS feed items. It makes a difference for me if i use Twitter / friendfeed as a news source that represents a human filter on news or I use the whole universe of news (depending which RSS feeds i have configured in the Google reader). Both entry points have advantages and disadvantages, but i like the idea of cross-convergence so I would also like to see the cross link to Twitter or Friendfeed in the Google reader. - 210cm

As a quick workaround, I subscribe to my Twitter in Google Reader. So tweets from people I follow show up in Google Reader searches. - Martin Recke

Friendfeed has too much noise compared to Google Reader. - Ansgar Wollnik

Different picture here. I have 1.200 feeds in Google Reader, follow 661 people on Twitter and subscribe to 172 people in Friendfeed. So Friendfeed is calm compared to both Twitter and Google Reader. - Martin Recke

so you prefer headlines over full articles, right? ;) - Marcel Weiß

add feedly for full web 2.0 happiness! ;) - Dieter Schwarz

"Your pad or mine?" - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

LOL @ l0ckergn0me!! Hey Mitch, do you speak Farsi? - Mona Nomura

Reminds me of Hypnotoad - Outsanity

@Mona No Farsi, but I'm trying to learn. Try this Farsi-English Translator http://friendfeed.com/e... or http://farsidic.com/F2E (but I can't get pasting from FriendFeed to work, you have to retype the word your trying to translate. Very hard to read those small Farsi characters...) - Mitchell Tsai

Oh I was just wondering because someone wrote a comment in Farsi... thanks for the links though! And I too, am a fan of the Google translator : ) - Mona Nomura

Unfortunately there's no Google/SYSTRAN-like page where you can translate a whole paragraph or web page at once. See http://friendfeed.com/e... http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Can't get a translation of Vashka's comment for you. Perhaps one of the Persians on FriendFeed can help? It's 1:29 pm IRDT in Tehran right now, and many of them like pictures, so they might see this thread... - Mitchell Tsai

HI MT. Vashka Said: how are you boy? - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Vashka: خوبم ممنون I'm at a dance festival in Berkeley, CA. WCCIF 2008 http://wccif.com The dancing looks like http://contactil.org/COU... http://movingeast.co.uk/images... http://epiphanydance.org/images... Thanks, Mahdi. - Mitchell Tsai

i hope you enjoy this festival and dance very well !!! - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Thanks Mahdi ممنون - Mitchell Tsai

alright Mitchell - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Is ممنون related to the French "merci" (Thank You)? - Mitchell Tsai

yes ممنون is equal of Merci in French. "merci" also use by some Persian girls. :)))) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Ha, ace. - Adam York Gregory

Wow, just amazing the odyssey that one little comment in a foreign language just took me on. After clicking a few of his/her links it seems Vashka is an Iranian man (I think) living in a Northern province of Iran. The internet just totally shrinks the world! So cool. - Adam Turetzky

@Adam I wish my Farsi were better. :-) For some favorite pics from the past 3 days, try http://friendfeed.com/mitchel... Most of these pics are from Pixdaus, which I never would have found without the help of the Persians in the Persian Cam FriendFeed Room http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

Shit! This Frog looks like Scoble! LMAO - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

that toad probably gets more ladies than i do - Cee Bee

Thank you Mitchell for appreciate Persian Cam Room. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

@John You mean like a feed aggregator for feed aggregators? Clever. ;-) - Mike

Some nice ideas that I haven't seen elsewhere - particularly like the Flickr slideshow, and the calendar view is really nice. I think it has a way to go to get too many people switching though. - Richard Peat

yeah, i like the way it looks, but it needs more functions... maybe IM or something.... or it's own status update like twitter - c010depunkk from twhirl

Wow. Fastest setup time ever! had all services linked up in less than 5 minutes. - Andy Lewandowski from twhirl

One thing I'm not diggin is the increasing lack of undo that I'm finding here and there. Swurl is one place. indenti.ca another. Typos are also a drag where they can't be edited. FriendFeed is nice this way. I can edit. Blogs aren't much of a problem. Microblogs like Twitter and indenti.ca and an aggregator like Swurl are however. - Jeff Evans

The other thing I have to remember is where to post where for what! :) -- Ping.fm helps alot. I finally have iPhone, Twitter, indenti.ca, Facebook, Tumblr, FriendFriend all playing nice with each other. Took a full day of noodling though. - Jeff Evans

Wow swurl showed my activities as far back as 2006. Got to savor those delicious links I had bookmarked once upon a time. - Arvind

John: it's actually more like a "instant blog creator", showing all your content (not only headlines or tiny previews) embedded and in full length, even videos you favorited, and all that in your own look (you can use your own CSS). But it sure lacks an edit function and much more - Gaby K. Slezák

It does have a nice look. I am imagine some more features will be coming. Edits especially. - Andy Lewandowski from twhirl

+1 Robert's comment. FriendFeed drives page views, it doesn't take them away. - Hutch Carpenter

From the other side I would support Robert and Hutch's assertions. I am more of a consumer than a producer but my experience is that I visit many more blogs because of FF than I did before becoming a user here. - Brian Sullivan

I'm still not seeing that big of a bump. More than a Techmeme story, but that's a pretty low bar to set. - Cyndy

I visit more blogs after seeing positive comments on FF -- and I'm ignoring RSS feeds more and more and more and more and more ... just too many of the same stories ... I want to read the source, read people's thoughts on the story, and read comments. I find the FF allows me to find who first reported the story (close to the source... ) ... - LPH™ and his dog P™

FF will drive more direct traffic over time. Like many others, I use FF to discover content and conversation on other sites. Twitter, FF, et al are good for quick sound bites but the meat is still with the "main" sites. - Sally - Skyrimmin' It

I personally use FF to browse the web. I ultimately don't care about the main site or where the content is hosted. I'd even prefer if I can just get the content in FF right away without having to leave it - especially when I am browsing mobile. - simonpure

@simonpure Then what is the content creator's impetus for creating the content in the first place? That's one of the reasons so many people don't want to even join FriendFeed. - Cyndy

Robert - I know about your "im getting a lot more traffic from ff" argument, it's basically on every podcast, video, etc that you are on :) You are a special case with regards to FF - let's use a normal user and look at traffic. And yes, I understand that FF drives traffic and that's great. It's just not comparing the same things. - Allen Stern

On your post, Allen, you claim that people will re-visit a site to see the comments, and therefore, you'll get more ad impressions. Realistically speaking, why the heck would a return commenter care or even see your ad? Isn't the advertiser a fool for thinking that visitor has value? This whole argument is bunk considering CPM is a joke. - Louis Gray