Please post seriously, and in order of importance i.e. 1. Less Down time, 2. Threaded comments, 3. No page refresh when posting. 4. larger character limit in posts, 5. inthread images and videos. 6. built in search
- Jason Calacanis
threaded comments, search, importing feeds
- Anthony Farrior
Context communication. I can have a conversations here. in twitter everything you say is out of context.
- Noah David Simon
The floor routine, the biathlon, and the long jump.
- Richard Klein
It's not showing a picture of a whale when I want to post a comment. I'd say that's "better".
- Robert Accettura
(1) Aggregate data feeds (2) promote group interaction (3) direct you to interesting content in other places on the web. It's only a direct competitor in terms of competition for a user's attention, imho. Twitter is a messaging service.
- Ken Sheppardson
oh... you didn't specify a form: (1) contextual (2) less down time (3) less elitist.. hierarchial, but creates community
- Noah David Simon
For starters it seems to be reliable. But as I saw posted over the weekend, FF does much more than twitter and is not a good replacement for the simple 140 char posts.
- bjmac
1. Threaded comments easier to view full conversation, 2. Less down time. Now ask what Twitter does better than FF, have an answer for that too.
- Lucretia Pruitt
3. Sounds sarcastic but true....No crashing!!!
- Robert Barr
It stays up and running and allows better conversations. =)
- Andrew Ruess
1) Easier to follow discussions / threads 2) More visual (e.g. Flickr thumbnails) 3) no 140 char limit makes it easier to have in-depth discussions.
- Mike Doeff
1. Aggregation of feeds and services (better than Jaiku) 2. Threaded comments 3. integration of images and video
- Pascal Sijen
Perhaps this question should have been, what doesn't it do better?
- Ivan Stegic
It doesn't crash all the time, yet. Threading of conversations, Great way to share all your sites in one place.
- Mark Ramsey
1. Threaded comments=conversations; 2. Discovery (though this noise is also it's worst attribute); 3. Longer comments (I could not post this full response in Twitter). Uptime is a given, so not bothering to rank.
- Barry Graubart
I guess after my last comment, I needed to start the alternate survey. So here is the converse question: What does FF not do that Twitter does well?? http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Ivan Stegic
1) Aggregation 4) No limit on message lengths 5) of feeds 2) Conversation 3) Availability ...PLUS...4) No limit on messages 5) Response time 6) Blog Comments integration
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
conversation is the clear winner, the down time one is hard to say until the people that are on twitter flock to here and put this system under load. It could fold up like a tent in a tornado just as badly as twitter is under heavy load.
- Tom Boucher
This, the ability to thread comments based on the original statement.
- Paul Barton
Jason ... You can ask that, but Twitter does things better than FriendFeed as Well: Messaging is the Big One. FriendFeed does not lend itself well to directing messages at people, or statuses
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
Nothing. I don't use it very much, had to sign in just to comment here ;)
- Søren Hugger Møller
1. Uptime, 2. Search, 3. Friend of friend
- brian junyor
I agree with other commenters that there are things that Twitter does better. Different tools for different needs. I use both and I have no plans to drop Twitter.
- Mike Doeff
Jason, it's like asking what three things do the Marine Corpse do better than the New Jersey Devils. In the area the two services do have in common, being able to see all replies connected to the original item is where FriendFeed is better.
- Dewald Pretorius
1. friendfeed obviously has better uptime, at least so far. -1. friendfeed doesn't let you put CR/LF in comments. 2. friendfeed does a much better job of aggregating content from many different sites. 3. friendfeed can push content back out to some of those sites (e.g. sending replies to twitter). I haven't yet looked for friendfeed clients/front-ends, but I miss Tweetr, which I use for Twitter. Sometimes the friendfeed web page stops auto-updating for me.
- Richard Klein
I love the ability to comment and to more easily follow conversations.
- Jill Howard Allen
comments you can follow, pictures and videos are right here, integrates feeds. Will your next question be what are 3 things Twitter does better than FF? Some things are lacking here too.
- Carolyn Chan
Aggregation and self-contained conversation
- Michael Gaines
it helps you get information accross multiple sources and updates, including twitter if your twitter client isnt working at that exact moment.
- Michael Garrison
1. comments/conversation presentation 2. performance 3. groups (rooms) - other features like feed importing are not core features of twitter nor should it be. why should twitter import my posts from elsewhere that are more than 140 chars and/or contain media elements? twitter and friendfeed are not true competitors though some features can be compared such as the ones i and many others here are pointing out.
- sull
Uptime would be the only thing it does better IMHO. But, I will say, very different tools.
- Trae Ruge
Wrong question; should be asking what Twitter does better than Friendfeed.
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
1. Aggregation of multiple data sources, 2. Availability, 3. No illustrated cartoon error pages (at least none that I've seen).
- Gregg Hartling
Bottomline Aggregation which makes for finding great content. Which makes is a different service from Twitter. I would put FriendFeed with the likes of Digg and Reddit myself
- Chris Rodgers
Twitter is a micro blog/messaging/status service .. while FriendFeed's initial focus was service aggregation, so comparing them is not an 'apples to apples' comparison. They do different things.
- Todd Dewell
Jason, do you plan to aggregate these results and share them with us? Would be interesting to see all of this in a pie chart.
- Mike Doeff
I came here to try to find out because I'm signed up for FF but don't like it so far.
- Liz
Everything? I *never* understood the appeal of Twitter, it seems the most useless application on the planet - especially with (because of) the inane 140 character limit. Friendfeed on the other hand has a clear value in terms of aggregating and sharing lots of disparate content, especially for those of us using multiple services
- Eric P
1. It's not down. :: 2. Multi-person-discussions are possible. :: 3. Following useful conversation is easy. 4. Getting people to comment on own stuff is easier (through "XXX (friend of YYY) shared ..."-feature).
- sebmos
I feel like you can more easily interact with new people and ideas. However, the size limit on Twitter makes it much easier to deal with throughout the day. Just joined FriendFeed today, so still exploring it.
- Mark
Ok, trying FF as well. Still like twitter and will be sad if I have to leave it
- Lide Winburn
Like Napoleon's army after the defeat in Moscow, straggling west, fleeing the hideous frozen hell, we are moving into the (for me, at least) unknown...
- Dave LaFontaine
It seems to me this is kind of a moot point. You draw those who follow you into your convesation and if someone makes a comment that continually intriques you all you have to do is simply subscribe to their ff. No need to wage a big dick contest with numbers of followers here. Its all about the conversation. Just an observation at this point.. I'm just now starting the migration from twitter to FF myself;-)
- Curtis "Billy" Cross
from twhirl
Just subscribed to you, feel free to follow back!
- KyleM
Hi Jason, thanks in advance for the follow.
- Larry Kless
Yes please - it is a challenge how to parallelize your twitter connections on FriendFeed. They really need a good import interface with automatic notifications via DM back to twitter followers.
- Jed White
Great stuff Jason, fan of your work. It would be great to have a Twitter/FriendFeed contact sync application. I'm sure you know some peeps to make that happen. =D
- Grahm Skee
Just discovered friendfeed. Pretty cool stuff.
- George Gray
I'll simply cite Rob Clark, who so eloquently put it: "I believe you're already subscribed to me, but now you can be double-secret-subscribed..." ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
"I've noticed that it is also hard to change your password on amex's website. That should be something that is easy to do in order to protect your account."
- Austin Hamilton