Disagree! FriendFeed is about aggregation is the same sense that Gmail is about SMTP. That is, it's absolutely critical; without it it can't even get started, and if you take it away the whole thing crashes to the ground. If you disagree, let's take aggregation out of FriendFeed and take POP3 out of Gmail, and see what happens. :-) I think this is a critical distinction. POP3 expands...
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- Daniel Dulitz
You're right Daniel, it's more important than POP3. My point though was that it's not the core activity, but something that makes it better and more powerful.
- Paul Buchheit
I guess I asked before but will you/ are you currently aggregating non-feed content? E.g. allowing user-formed queries like "pull whatever is posted between the h2 tags on the non-feed-enabled HTML page at URL xyz.com". Using some Yahoo Pipe like interface or just XPath or something. (Because I guess Friendfeed is more about aggregating at its core than feeds, in the sense of feeds...
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- Philipp Lenssen
Uh, right. If aggregation isn't the core activity, then what is?
- Adam MacBeth
when incorporate google reader sharing item, item shown at friendfeed order by somewhat strange order. i'd like to item at friendfeed be shown by newest order.
- huixing
@adam: conversation. I like to describe FriendFeed as a web forum seeded with attention data from folks I deem interesting.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins