Mike Fruchter

With Twitter down, I see this as where the conversation is headed: Friendfeed, rooms, shared feeds. - Nils Geylen

twitter seems down only for some of us, and it is still bigger than FF and 'easier' on non-techies. - oliver gassner via twhirl

@oliverg True, I consider myself hyperconnected and still have issues with FF. But if Twitter won't get it right soon... - Nils Geylen

Nils, since I have been on Friendfeed, my Twitter usage has drastically dropped to the point where I hardly use it anymore. The down time certainly has not helped. - Mike Fruchter

Ditto to the 100th power Mike - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I've been looking for workarounds to some of FFs less interesting features. "Hide items like this" sure helps for Adium status updates etc. - Nils Geylen

Nils, Very interesting take on the experiment so far. It has given me some food for thought. On your blog you mention my negatives about comments being exported from G Reader into the room. That to me is a positive, the problem is notes pulled from G Reader are showing me as the person who left the comment, rather then the person who noted it and shared it. This bug could have some serious consequences. - Mike Fruchter

I still find the 140 char limit on twitter liberating. When I can type as much as I want on FF sometimes I panic. - Nate Koechley

Kenichi Matsumoto - I get this error when trying to add your feed. The given URL does not appear to be a Google Reader shared items URL - Mike Fruchter

Nick, Yuvi, Mike & Sarah, feeds added. Thanks! - Mike Fruchter

Kenichi, disregard that message. I grabbed the url off your feed. Thanks - Mike Fruchter

I thank you, Mike! I could have subscribed to some valuable shared feeds out of the room :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

Just wondering - do you add everyone, or is there a "bar" you have to be over? - Yuvi

Yuvi for this experiment, any Freindfeeder with a Google Reader shared account can participate. - Mike Fruchter

Andy, Jason, Erin, Thanks for participating. Feeds have been added. - Mike Fruchter

The only problem I see with this experiment is that for readers of the group like me, the amount of data is too big... It would be great to have a room with the links who had two or more likes from this one (for instance) - or better, friendfeed should let me choose "I want to see only entries that someone liked, or at least x people liked"... - Marcos Marado

Marcos thanks for the feedback. I should have an updated post of week 2 of the experiment, the pluses and negatives. Filtering is the next stage. - Mike Fruchter

I'll be waiting then :-) - Marcos Marado