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Are there any third-party clients for FriendFeed yet? - Stephen

Only Google rivals Friendfeed for my time and attention. - Steve Rubel

same here. - Thomas Hawk

Twhirl does FriendFeed now: http://www.twhirl.org/ - Steve Isaacs

Yep - Anthony Farrior

Try using rescuetime.com and you can actually measure this. Really cool data result. - Christopher Sacca

it is my homepage... but I find I use twitter to feed it still. btw rescuetime.com asks for a credit card. f#(% that... please don't promote that here. talk about a waste of time. like a dumb ass I del.icio.used it before realizing it was a piece of shit - Noah David Simon

Its going that way - need more noise - Roberto Bonini

Rescuetime does not ask for a credit card unless you are buying it for your enterprise. The personal version is entirely free. - Christopher Sacca

facebook is so long to upload with all the apps, friendsfeed is so quick and useful… Look like that between myspace/facebook/google battle, herecome the Outsider Friendsfeed, so exiting, it will relaunch web 2.0 sites - Marc Dahan

So does Alert Thingy - Michael VanDervort from fftogo

FF totally replaced Twitter for me today - Rafe Needleman

True dat. - Aaron Myers

Yes, now the name of the game is apparently being the preferred intermediary to Friendfeed and other social aggregators. For me, it's http://twhirl.org which fronts end both services I care about most (FF & Twitter>) - Dion Hinchcliffe from twhirl

I'm not looking for a site on which to spend more time; I'm looking for one that aggregates what I need to know in one spot. - Francine Hardaway

I like FF a lot. Twhirl is slightly hardert to use for some reason. - Michael VanDervort

There is a client for FriendFeed. Check out AlertThingy. http://alertthingy.com/ - John F Morton

How do people using FF deal with Twitter friends who aren't on FF? Read both? I see there are "imaginary" friends, but does that mean manually importing and updating your Twitter friends on FF? - Greg Beck

Best way to deal with FriendFeed is through the browser. The clients make it seem more cluttery. - David Risley

Nothing beats using the browser. Clients are slow and sometimes unresponsive. - Winston Teo

oddly David you are right, but if you'd asked me a month ago I would have disagreed. For some reason FF works better on the web where as Twitter is via desktop client - Duncan Riley

yesh, i hope there's a google search box.. I also installed duncan's script - Raymond

Me too, its my start page and clients do suck, btw is the friendfeed air client done? - Kyle Weller

I spend much more time on Google Reader than Friendfeed because of superior signal to noise. - Sean McBride

me too.. - Tim FitzGerald

I am baffled as to why anyone would think that Friendfeed is remotely competitive with Google Reader for processing highly strategic cutting edge information in a slick and efficient way. The potential is there, I can see that, but actualizing the potential is going to require a great deal of smart code and ranking algorithms. Also, am I the only one bothered by this "forum" interface? It's like trying to play Rachmaninoff on the piano while wearing boxing gloves. - Sean McBride

I think Reader and FriendFeed are useful for entirely different reasons. I use Reader for aggregation on news source and research material for those areas I track. FF enhances that information stream by personalizing some topics, and by giving me an entirely different personal stream . I often have both open and click back and forth betweem them. - Michael VanDervort

@MichaelVanDervort: I use Google Reader not only to aggregate high quality news, research and discussion, but to PRIORITIZE it. With GR I get a continuous stream of intensely concentrated strategic information. So far, after fiddling with all of FF's options, I have not been able to duplicate that experience here. Also, it is easy to use GR in tandem with Yahoo Groups, which provides much more powerful tools for in-depth forum discussions than is available in the current iteration of Friendfeed. - Sean McBride

FF may not be Reader, but it still retains that element of subscribing to others. And yes, FF could be Digg or google News, but its besides the point. GF is Reader in steroids because not only do we subscribe, but we comment, like and manage the noise interactively- none of which Reader does. And we wouldn't want it to since Reader is excellent at what it does. - Roberto Bonini

Just about every time I visit FriendFeed there is another piece of brain candy to consume (or, more applicable perhaps, subsume). I haven't had this much enjoyment since the web started up. - jcunwired

I have limited time to spend on these things every day. I find I indeed am spending a lot less of that time on TechMeme and Google Reader lately and a lot more of that time on FriendFeed. I still use the other two, so they are still important, but I have cut way back. - Robert Scoble

To RS: and where, amidst the flood of tweets, does one find time to mull over carefully constructed books, dissertations, journal articles, conference papers, patents and the like, and think visionary thoughts? - Sean McBride

You know, I'm complaining about certain issues with Friendfeed, but I'm here, I'm hooked, I feel the gravitational pull of the thing. Something important is happening here. - Sean McBride

I have a tough time deciding where to spend time - My Google Reader or Friendfeed - Kapil