"FriendFeed, founded just eight months ago, has not had time yet to prove whether it can be a mass market or financial success but it has soared in the estimation of the Valley’s digerati to rank as Google’s most significant offspring to date." - Bret Taylor
Friendfeed is my favorite application - period. NOTHING compares... awesomely disruptive with amazing potential!! My internal *innovation lightbulb* glows really bright when I get close to Friendfeed!! - Susan Beebe
Interesting article. I'd probably move wholesale to FriendFeed.... except the people I communicate with are largely on Twitter and not here. Life's too short to set up imaginary friends on FF. Any way I can pull in my entire Twitter feed here? - David Sim
I'm with David on that one. I set up some of my Twitter friends as Imaginary to test it out (and I love the feature). However, I am too lazy to set all of them up. - Yolanda
FriendFeed has potential, no doubt. Now if only I could get some of my friends to sign up! - Rahul Das via twhirl
Friend Feed was talked about on Windows Weekly and Twit this week!! - Paul
The best part of FF is the clean UI. This is more important than featureset. Remember, Google.com search and craigslist -- two very simple clean user interfaces. - Maneesh Arora
Notice the rise in MSM coverage for FriendFeed, sure sign this is about to hit the public's imagination - Duncan Riley
FF definitely wins with its API and responsiveness, as well as a vibrant community and ability to generate lots of conversations - Wil
Congratulations to Bret and company for this continuing very well deserved accolades. - Alex Hammer
As well as the fact that a bug that constrains you to the last 11 pages of your activity? - Yuvi
There is massive potential in FF but there should be more tools for filtering conversations and content so that it would be more easy find what is important. Any change for keyword based tracking lists (like in del.icio.us)? - Daniel Schildt
@Earle Martin - The bug has been acknowledged and a fix is said to be "in the works" - for about 2 months now :( - Yuvi
I don't use Google Groups or email for discussions. If they want my input they have to use FriendFeed. Imagine that. I'm more committed to their tool than they are? Unreal. - Dave Winer
I knew there as something wrong with FF and this is it -- they don't jump in with both feet -- they dip a toe in here and there. It's nice to post links to articles and baby pics (congrats!) and trip pics (ditto) but put your person into this space. Then it'll really go somewhere. - Dave Winer
BTW the Twitter guys do the same thing. They are not among the power users of Twitter. - Dave Winer
Dave, I agree with you 100%. The commitment they show in using their own product is vital. And, a proper user profile page will be very nice. - Dewald Pretorius
I've had the same thought about a user profile page. I'm reading something and I wonder who the person is. Click on their name and -- nothing. Funny thing is that some reporters are starting to read FriendFeed, so if they want to have influence over their press they're going to have to show up here. Otherwise we're going to control their message. Heh. :-) - Dave Winer
@Dave Winer: I disagree - with pretty much every aspect you state here :) Google Groups and the availability of standard ff functionality precede friendfeed rooms by years for the former service and something around half a year for the latter. Deriving any conclusions concerning committment to friendfeed from the usage of groups or email - or any other service that might be better suitable for the specific task - is rather subjective and not comprehensible. - Mustafa K. Isik
Actually Dave has a point - if content producers are meant to go to where the conversation is, without an easy way to find it all, then the same should be true for Friendfeed bug reports and feature requests. You can do searches based upon topics, but try searching based upon a permalink of a blog post - Andy Beard
I don't think rooms are the answer either. How I would do it -- add a command to the popup menu under More (above) that says -> Feedback to FF. Click on a comment and choose the command. Then it goes where ever they want it to go to be in their queue. If they want to respond, they do so in place, where the discussion is taking place. I've been doing this for a LONG time Mustafa, you have to come to the users, making them come to you -- you'll miss the good stuff (as they are). - Dave Winer
@Dewald Pretorius, @Dave Winer: What better, more precise and comprehensive profile information, beyond the full activity stream plus links to all kinds of services an individual uses and produces content on, could you possibly expect? I like that friendfeed makes for a platform that is not about people fleshing out a dedicated profile page and telling you how great they are - instead you get the chance to make up your own mind via a very authentic activity stream. - Mustafa K. Isik
[continued] Concerning a quick way to get an impression of who an ff user is and where his/her interests lie, a computed tag cloud (based on shared items, comments, liked items) could prove useful. - Mustafa K. Isik
The only issue FF would run into using their own system for feedback is the restriction on entry and comment length. However, they could easily lift those restrictions in a special room or on entries designated as feedback, feature requests, etc. There really is no excuse for them to not use their own system. - Dewald Pretorius
@Dave: "You have to come to the users, making them come to you -- you'll miss the good stuff (as they are)." Great observation. - Hutch Carpenter
Agree with Dave, would like to see profile pages on FF. A quick snapshot sort of page that gives you an idea of who the person is. Flickr does a pretty good job at this actually and could be a good model for what a profile page should look like. Profile pages should not limit bio length and should allow html. - Thomas Hawk
Each users page, especially their recent activity, is a great snapshot of who they are, I think. When I subscribe to someone, I look at those pages to make sure what I see is interesting. I think that's the best kind of a "profile" on a person you can get. - Jordan Hofker
You don't need a profile page on Friend Feed, you have access to the users profiles in the services on the right hand side. And therefore multiple profiles. - Toby Graham
Jordan, what you say is true, but what you see is a snapshot of a time-based "profile", which could give you different impressions of the same person on different days. Depends on what the person's FF feed pulled in on that day. A static profile area would alleviate that problem. - Dewald Pretorius
I kinda get the feeling that early on they've been sitting back and letting the community develop by itself, rather than leading the way. Which I totally agree with. - Shey
Full disclosure time: I gently rolled my eyes when I heard about FriendFeed, but I have to say I'm a huge fan now, if that kind of thing can be measured by how much time I spend on it! - Jeff Eddings
You test out a lot of these social/feed applications and just the odd one or two have that easy fit like a glove feel to them which means you use them day in day out - google reader was one and friendfeed is another... - David W
