Hey just what I need, another feed aggreagtor. What would be more useful is one site where I could keep all this info up to date then have people put their twists on it. For instance Swurl could have just taken my list from Friendfeed to create my page and I would have one less thing to maintain. - John Cooper
@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
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Wow. Fastest setup time ever! had all services linked up in less than 5 minutes. - Andy Lewandowski
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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 Benkwitz ☼
It does have a nice look. I am imagine some more features will be coming. Edits especially. - Andy Lewandowski
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@Mona No Farsi, but I'm trying to learn. Try this Farsi-English Translator http://friendfeed.com/e/37af73... 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 N.
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
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
"Angetrieben von Insights und Ideen, erschafft Interone Worldwide Interfaces, die Marken mit Verbrauchern verbinden. Jeden Tag. Full Service. International." wenn das mal kein bahnbrechender Claim ist ;-) - 210cm
oh, wie schön ein page-baukasten, bei twitter abgeschaut - ring2
The thing is, I'm getting a lot more traffic FROM FriendFeed lately so it's also helping page views to the root blog, which Allen didn't factor into his figures. - Robert Scoble
+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™
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 Robinson
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
RRW finds no problem adapting to the changing times - Julian Baldwin
Just so you know, I would not have read that article if it hadn't been posted on FF. ;) - DeathByNinja
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
I'm not one to really read a blog unless it's a news blog that's in my rss reader. I've found since I've been using FriendFeed I've been reading a *lot* more blogs than usual. I read recently where someone said "blog comments are dead" (I think it was Scoble) and, I tend to halfway agree. Some blogs have zero comments on great entries. I think Friend Feed is helping to streamline traffic and commenting to smaller blogs. - Candace Holly
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
louis, i didn't discuss ad value at all - i agree with you - i am only talking about the monetization from the publisher side. - Allen Stern
If your primary motivation for blogging is conversation, you should just write one sentence "discussion topics" on your blog and save yourself a heck of a lot of time. - Jason Kaneshiro
"Mit Identi.ca könnte sich das ändern. Der Dienst kommt zunächst als sehr schlichter Twitter Clone daher, bietet aber einige Besonderheiten, so zum Beispiel eine Jabber Schnittstelle und Authentifizierung via OpenID. Viele weitere Features wie Crossposting zu Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, eine Facebook Schnittstelle oder Upload von Bildern und Videos sind angekündigt, aber bisher nicht umgesetzt." - Klaus Eck
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Ich fänd es toll, wenn ein Open Source Projekt zum "Twitter Killer" würde. Der Zeitpunkt jedenfalls ist gut - wann wenn nicht jetzt? - Michael Gisiger
Würde ich auch gut finden, Identi.ca läßt sich viel einfacher Handhaben... Teste es gerade :-) - Lars Michael Lehmann
twitter is like a news filter if you have the right distributors included. I do use the reader in parallel because of some informations missing. What about a twitter integration in the google reader - something that indicates that a message has been twitted by whom and how many times and a aggregated view in the reader of the twitted news? Would be a nice reverse service to twitter and could potentially show up new twitter contacts with similar interests. Somebody realized in a "stable version" with greasemonkey? - 210cm
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
And Scoble is moving back to Greader cause there is more diversity there ;) #friendfeed #googlereader - oliver gassner
"Email has been the blockbuster and the Internet killer app for the past few decades, but it doesn't have a monopoly. New more contextual ways to communicate are emerging and slicing pieces of the email pie, particularly in the consumer market.
We're likely to see a consumer shift from email towards more compact forms of communication, but in the enterprise the email hold is strong and unlikely to be replaced any time soon." - Klaus Eck
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