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Allen Stern
Allen Stern
Anyone Still Using Friendfeed? - http://www.centernetworks.com/anyone-...
October 13, 2009 from CenterNetworks - Comment - Share
dreadful death.:( - Igor Poltavskiy
:( - Yolanda
article is pointing at Robert Scoble and Louis Gray, too. - Joe The Sausage
i'm not predicting the death of FF until they shoot it in the base of the skull. i actually use Facebook LESS post-acquisition. - Joe The Sausage
Maybe things were down in September because so many people went back to school? - Nine
NO, IT'S THE FFPOCALYPSE! SHUT DOWN THE SERVERS NOW!! :P - Joe The Sausage
Long Live FriendFeed - Chris Heath
LONG LIVE THE NEW FFLESH! - Joe The Sausage
FriendFeed is still the best place to 1) Aggregate all content from around the Web and 2) See others activity around the Web. Also, if you assume Facebook wins, piping content through here fills out your Facebook profile. So of course I'm still here. - Louis Gray
There you go, Allen. Straight from (one of) the horse's mouth. :) Louis is still here, still active and even interacting with you. - Curdy G
yep - i just saw a pic of his kid in a tshirt :) - Allen Stern
why are folks abandoning? :( - ffcode
hate facebook, and scoble's prediction that facebook would be the next big thing! you just can't help those folks that just get there for the girl-boy thing...or for their friends and family, there is a lot of people doing it there and a great section of that isn't of any help when it comes to questions and tech stuff, it might be a big thing but compared to friendfeed it is insignificant to me atleast...yeah there is a steep drop in scoble's activity on ff but earlier i thought maybe it is because of the new born baby but he himself admitted that he is giving a lot more time to twitter...louis is the same old louis :) that is great! - ffcode
Guys, this is FriendFeed comment bait. The chart on CenterNetworks isn't that good either. :) http://siteanalytics.compete.com/centern... - Louis Gray
Ouch :p - Chris Saad
oh snap! Louis is just mad because Cal lost again last weekend - Allen Stern
Guys, this is not Friendfeed comment bait - The chart on Louis Gray isn't that good either :) http://siteanalytics.compete.com/louisgr... - Allen Stern
URLTLDR - Jay Cuthrell
Allen, October will be an up month for me. :) - Louis Gray
why did the twins get computers? **oh snap** LOL - Allen Stern
Me-ouch - nice work Louis about CenterNetworks! - Shane
still here. (been posting this a lot lately....) - Mike Nencetti
Still my favorite network. Why? - Jesse Stay
You know it would be cool if everyone left FriendFeed because then Louis and I would have the edge against everyone else that left it in the dust. It's still an awesome tool guys! - Jesse Stay
Using it every day - Christopher Galtenberg
I keep telling you guys: this internet thing is JUST A FAD - Ken Sheppardson
The chart on mine's going up, kind of: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/staynal... - Jesse Stay
nice Jesse - keep it up! - Allen Stern
Allen, I just hope that everybody stops blogging so I am the only one doing it. If you naysayers all stop FriendFeeding, that's fine too. Go have fun on your Twitter. :) - Louis Gray
I noticed a decline, but it really seems to be picking up lately, especially in the last week. - RAPatton
i thought we were all going to posterous? i booked a big coach bus to take us all over there! rubel is driving! :-P - Allen Stern
hahahaha "go have fun on your twitter" there isn't anything like friendfeed, no not even posterous... - ffcode
*fierce eye roll* - Chieze Okoye
In the old days this would have had hundreds of comments. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Allen, no, we're all going to SocialMedian now - didn't you get the memo? - Jesse Stay
Robert, that's because your brother quit ;-) - Jesse Stay
it's really simple: I control what I see and respond to on FriendFeed. On Facebook others control what I see. - bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert, are you coming here to tell us again that nobody uses FriendFeed anymore because it's too noisy? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
yup Robert i am with Bruce on this...:) - ffcode
If it's too loud, you're too old. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
one of the reasons might be because FF team has moved on... - ffcode
WHAT? YOU GUYS ARE BEING TOO NOISY - Jesse Stay
I haven't noticed any big declines since the week or two after the Facebook announcements. Most of the people I interact with are still here... and I've subbed to new people... I don't know what that article is talking about. Seems like the article is a self fulfilling prophecy: let's say that everyone is leaving FriendFeed so that everyone will leave FriendFeed. Actually, it almost seems kind of like the "early days" before there was a big influx of people from Twitter and such when everyone knew each other better... My stream is a bit more interesting and manageable now actually. - Lindsay
kind of, though I've noticed most have changed exactly how they use it before and after the big sell, for example there are fewer imports of the particular services and more of personal blog RSS's, which I'm sure is due to who own the content issue - The Real sofarsoShawn
ffcode, Paul Bucheit posted something just yesterday, as did Benjamin Golub. They're still using the site. - Jesse Stay
moved on as in moved on to another projects are they still working on ff? - ffcode
jesse, but their activity has seen a drop, bret isn't doing much - ffcode
I've personally noticed a large drop among the usual people I subscribed to. My main feed was so dead I even had to ask if the real-time feature broke down. - The Real sofarsoShawn
ffcode, they're working on the facebook code now... figuring out how to move forward while integrating the friendfeed features (iirc) - Chris Heath
oh okay... - ffcode
This makes me sad. :( - April Buchheit from iPhone
Great... Just when I was getting used to FriendFeed... So what's the new fad service? Outside of Google Wave and the still going strong Twitter/Facebook news, I haven't heard of anything new coming out lately. Maybe it's just me but I'm itching for more revolutionary free stuff. Posterous FTW though. :p - Fake Name
ffcode, they released Tornado server recently. I think that was a pretty significant activity - Jesse Stay
Fake Name, don't go anywhere... Long Live FriendFeed - Chris Heath
For the record, Allen, Cal didn't lose this weekend because they had a bye week. :) - Louis Gray
looooooooooooooool - Allen Stern
Still here...... - Iain Baker
i'm of the opinion that FriendFeed (the service) is of more value -- to me-- than FriendFeed (the community) and if the community goes off and disipates it will be a loss, but the service is still worth a lot to me - Chris Heath
April, please elaborate. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
Louis, you mean a BYU week? Did you see how much BYU beat UNLV by? :-) - Jesse Stay
Ok, Chris. I'll hold your Feed up to that scrutiny. :p - Fake Name
agree with Judy... - ffcode
In answer to the original question: yes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Yeah - April can't just say she's sad and leave it at that :-) Does she have insider information we're not privy to? - Jesse Stay
this thread tops my best of day. - Mike Nencetti
I stopped pruning my FF feed to promote interaction and don't bother sharing with FF as much. I just post links through twitter now and upped my usage for facebook. I also stopped updating the rooms I started. - Alan Le
FF is still my favourite, although I'm quite. But that's due to other activities. - Ton Zijp
this is control, and you all who registered on ff need to be here ASAP...and we need to rebuild the conversations ETA a day at most... - ffcode
hahhahaaaa, yeah that'd be FriendFeed done right - The Real sofarsoShawn
Fake Name, what scrutiny are you holding my feed up to? Not sure what you mean. - Chris Heath
@Chris Heath, it was just a fancy way of saying I've subscribed to your feed. - Fake Name
btw oward, why is Jaiku better than Twitter? You didn't exactly clarify. Personally though...yeah, end of the day I either want a better RSS or a better RSS segmenter than anything else. FriendFeed is nice but it's still more of a lifestream than a Yahoo Pipes' Dream. - Fake Name
Fake Name, well that makes sense... i kind of thought you might have been putting me down in a sarcastic manner, but that makes sense too - Chris Heath
Haven't found anything to replace it with just yet, so yeah, I'm still here. - Steven Perez
To be honest, I have stopped listening to a lot of social media 'experts'. FriendFeed has always been about social interaction for me... After 1,000,345 stories on Twitter vs Facebook, it's getting old. Interaction may be down... but it may be the content, not the service. - Johnny
Good thread, my comment on the post here: http://alexschleber.posterous.com/my-comm... If FF goes away entirely, it would be a huge loss of the (Twitter) archiving capabilities. I still don't get why FF didn't go the full-on Twitter client route, they could have pwned TweetDeck with better groups, MUCH better persistence, etc. They could have ridden the Twitter hype wave all the way. Of course to make that happen, they would have had to optimize the Twitter use cases. - Alex Schleber
I like FF for everything it does that Twitter DOESN'T. I'm very glad they didn't just make it another lame Twitter client. How many of those do we really need? - Lindsay
FB could easily inject thousands or millions of new users. The fact that they don't, and probably won't, sucks. I think ff was bought because it was seen as a threat, and now I fear it is being left to die. sigh. - Garin Kilpatrick
I think the 50 mio is a transfer payment to FF guys... They dont need anything and I dont think that they seen ff as a thread. - Atif UNALDI
pity, i was just starting to enjoy using friendfeed even though no body ever replied to any of my comments lol - Loc
@bluecockatoo / Lindsay, I wasn't saying that FF should ONLY be another Twitter client, rather the best, on top of also being the best for other services and FF discussion (different use cases). BTW, you may have noticed that FF was always at least 50% Twitter content. Why deny/fight reality, especially if that reality could have greatly bolstered FF instead of seeing it flounder and then having to sell out to Zuckerberg for the coding talent (AKA liquidation). - Alex Schleber
I've actually been spending more time here lately, still subscribing to interesting feeds - but also started looking for decent replacement. Expecting may be some time before I find one - no hurry .... - Dan Freeman
To the end - Wayne Sutton from iPhone
Yeeee - Joe Dawson
Garin, i suspect ff guys had facebook in mind when they were designing it... - ffcode
"While comparing Posterous to Friendfeed is like comparing a bagel to a piece of fish, ..." lol. But.. can't argue with the OP; it's a shame.. - thinkQuick
I still open up FF and leave it running all day long. - Chris Jackson
Yup, still using it. At the Mac FriendFeed still rules over Twitter. Slightly different story on the iPhone where Twitter is served by several superb third party clients, in particular Twittelator Pro, which drag me to the platform. On the Mac though it's a no contest. I'm staying in the hope that FriendFeed will see further updates. If this doesn't happen and if it rots on the vine then I'll consider other services. For now though FriendFeed seems the best there is out there. - JSLeFanu
have we passed 100 comments yet so Scobelizer will take note - Chris Heath
Chris: No, I mean, yes. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
No, nobody uses FriendFeed any more. I certainly don't. - Melly Botts
I still use FriendFeed, although I haven't been as active as I would have liked, as of late. :( - Tyson Key
I didn't want to respond to this yesterday but I think it's really sad that blogs\news try to put things into the Deadpool before they actually happen. Throughout my career I've seen this, X is dead and in many cases they still exist. Why does media (including blogs) feel it is there role to speed up or create a death? My view is that if they are still talking about it, it's normally still doing OK. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I especially liked how she called us idiots as we had it wrong this whollllle damn time. Oh yes, because she's in the superior position to make such a crude judgment call. Dumb fug. - The Real sofarsoShawn
Shawn, who's she? and where did she say this? now i'm interested... - Chris Heath
Here we go, my Backtype's not importing so, Christina Warren wrote a thoroughly idiotic article for mashable: http://www.backtype.com/connect... & Louis G's take: http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... - The Real sofarsoShawn
I do, but I wish there was a way of filtering what the Facebook app posts, e.g. no "@" replies... - David "Lefty" Schlesinger from Nambu
I use Friendfeed a lot more than Twitter because there is less noise and spam so it's fine if the numbers are low as long as they keep running it. I do spend most on my time on facebook because that's where my close friends and family are. It would be easier to be here if there was interaction on any of my posts. - Jason Williams from iPhone
I find myself using friendfeed even more after the acquisition. I usually start conversations here and auto-post to twitter. I just seem to get more interaction here than twitter. I get a few @replies here and there on twitter but its usually my close friends. - BRҰANSAҰS
so am i... maybe it's december, not friendfeed? students are back to their studies, business people realize that the quarter ends in september and so on... i've cut my browsing to minimum - no twitter, no facebook, only friendfeed - Kirill Bolgarov
Off topic: Do your Twitter updates come as fast as usual or are they late? Because mine are unusually late. Google Reader shares too. - rukku