Wow. This is a good move, but my facebook feed has become less and less useful because of ad spam (for apps). I don't really pay attention to it anymore. What I really want is more friend/trusted person news, and I'm getting a lot more of that at friendfeed right now, so that's what I open first in the morning. facebook is a second site, if even, nowadays. - Ginger Makela
so activity streams are a commodity now... next frontier is super-aggregator of all activity stream aggregators? - Aviv
You heard it here first - activity stream fatigue! :) - Aviv
Am I the only one that doesn't see Facebook as a competitor? It's just another source to get plugged into FriendFeed or any other aggregator I find useful. FriendFeed, on the other hand, is like a forum that I'd actually want to visit, seeded by the activities and content production of people I care about. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Mark, right, but imagine these capabilities integrated into FB... why would someone who doesn't use FF start using it if they're already on Facebook all day long? And FB will have the upper hand, as it can freely aggregate FF streams without FF being able to do the same... - Aviv
Most of the people I know on Facebook are more interested in ""vaulting a set while playing PackRat", whatever the hell that means. - Christopher Black
To hell w/ Facebook, Friendfeed pwns! - FatallyHip
Agreeing with Ginger and FatallyHip. Down with Facebook! Hooray for FriendFeed! - Voyagerfan5761
FriendFeed will win as long as I have freedom to control my FriendFeed graph. I lost that at FB once all the "slightly friendly" people friended me. Someday someone will figure out that I want to tag my friends, so I can send all the sex stuff to one group of friends, all the geek stuff to another group, and all the health stuff to my family. - Daniel Dulitz
Agree with Daniel, group/tag friends can solve the BIG graph problem. - Lizunlong
So far I give the edge to FriendFeed. FriendFeed - please don't do applications that spam people :) - Jason Kaneshiro
Lets face it friendfeed is a feature acting as a site - efader
the main reason facebook is interesting to me is the news feed. i used to check facebook every day, but now i just use friendfeed instead and only log onto facebook once a week or so. friendfeed is much more relevant & interesting than fb news feed. it includes the people i actually want to track (as opposed to old classmates i haven't seen in years) and also lets me track people who i don't know personally/socially (like interesting bloggers). http://www.jessyoko.com/blog/2... - Jess Lee
I agree with Jess. And this suggests a slogan: "Friendfeed: stalk interesting bloggers" - j1m
It's interesting that they chose to pre-announce this rather than just releasing it. Nevertheless, it's not really a surprise, and I think it'll be good for everyone because it provides more distribution for all apps, including FriendFeed. Hopefully it will also lead them further down the road towards opening up an Atom/RSS feed of their own news need, just as all these other services have. - Paul Buchheit
lol re: Christopher Black's comment about PackRat. - niniane
Daniel, http://Multiply.com offers that ability to post for different groups. It can post not only for first degree contacts in a group or category, but also through the graph out more than one degree in the category too, plus for arbitrary members and even to e-mail addresses. Everyone, even those without logins, can then reply. - John Lam
Orkin. April called to cancel and they guy says, "I'm sorry, I don't have the authority to cancel your account. You'll have to speaks with my manager". And of course the manager gives her the hard sell trying to make her justify her decision. I decided that this was the perfect response to that hard sell because the more they argue with it the more it's true. - Paul Buchheit
I once canceled a credit card because I didn't like the new design they put on it. - Louis Gray
I used this argument while canceling my Discover Card. I also canceled American Express at the same time. Discover did the hard sell, and made me want to never get another one in the future. American Express was polite and helpful even though I was canceling my account. Many years later I got another American Express card. - Amit Patel
I always attempt to cancel paid services that I like...I get more discounts that way - Slippy Lane
It's sometimes too difficult to cancel anything... First thing to come to my mind is some email notifications of blog comments if you have opted in to get notifications about new comments to some blog post. Or what about some odd things like newsletters without opt-out information? ;) - Daniel Schildt
Sounds like Facebook. I'm contemplating the exact same thing - Jason Kaneshiro
Oh, I thought you meant Twitter. I was wondering what the heck it did to make you think you couldn't cancel your account easily... - Voyagerfan5761
LA is great, just advanced to candidacy last week. The wedding is in 2 weeks... - Elliot Berkman
I agree with Elliot. This is freakin awesome. Just one thing - how can I track my blogs when I have more than one? - Larry Borsato
A number of people have requested that -- we will get to it soon. No good way at the moment. - Bret Taylor
great service, hope my friends got invited soon ;D - Marcos Messer
Shouldn't it link to the digg page, so others could digg it too? - Marcos Messer
Yes, it should! We were just talking about that. Will be coming shortly... - Bret Taylor
I guess that the best would be having both, the direct link and the link for the digg page ;) - Marcos Messer
Why are the best ideas, the simple ones? very cool - mobile version please ;-) - jon bradford
Thanks for the invite, Bret - I'm well impressed with this whole concept, and it's gonna shrink the sheer quantity of links I have to keep giving out enormously - Slippy Lane
Bret do you plan on have a friendfeed zeitgeist? - efader
Can I post a comment for public viewing? Or to my friends? Or can I only comment on existing feeds? - Michael
Michael: you can only comment on existing feeds at the moment, but that has been requested by a few people. Added to the list of feature requests... - Bret Taylor
Hi Bret can you invite Chris Schalk? I'm doing a demo of friendfeed for him now - Patrick Chanezon
