June 15 at 9:00 pm
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excellent - Noah Carter
Hmmm. I don't think I'm ready to declare a winner in this space, yet. I think a really good MySpace or Facebook app has the potential to trounce FF. - Eric Hamilton
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this - Jason Kaneshiro
Whew! If Steve falls any more in love with FF, we may have to start making wedding plans soon - Charlie Anzman
My wife, Lindsay kind of covered something similar a month or so ago. She's convinced that FF will spawn the first useful Intelligent Agents. I tend to agree. See: http://macrolinz.com/macrolinz... - Tad, Fool
Interesting article. Steve seems to suggest that FF is staffed to build better technology than many others. That might be possible, but technology is not enough as other factors such as scale (number of users) might impact even more? - Davide D'Incau
Great article. - Aaron Myers
It's interesting that there isn't a 'FriendFeed This' button at the end of the article. - Andrew Denny
Tad D, Lindsay's article is great. I especially like this part: "It’s even possible that FriendFeed could share revenue with FFeeders based on their influence in resulting sales". Steve: Paltry 300K? Thank G they have "only" 300K. Figuring out this social media/ad model is going to require a company with enough flexibility and speed to keep up with the pace and vagaries of users. No lumbering cruise ships need apply -- jet skis only. - Ginger Makela
maybe it's the players, not the app - William Stewart
It's a start, I'm a fan of FF, but it's early in the life streaming cycle. - James Clark
Oh please. Blame the user? Seriously? The problem is that popular content is reshared - that's the very nature of social media. FriendFeed currently makes no effort to show how many people are sharing, bookmarking, tweeting etc the same content so the discussions around that content become segregated little silos. This is one of FriendFeed's biggest challenges to overcome, IMO and speaks greatly to the "noiseness" of the system. - Sarah Perez
@Sarah A big reason why I'm bullish on FF is because of the team - I think they are very smart, and likely already know about that duplicate issue, are thinking about how to solve it, and will be able to implement it. They aren't sitting still. - Jason Kaneshiro
Steve - seriously? Did this post need such a baiting headline? - Jeremy Toeman
You could be right Steve. It's gotta start somewhere. I think if Facebook used the tech. They could make a more compelling package. - Laurent Courtines
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Rubel nailed it on every point, and I share his enthusiasm. Now let's hope the Friendfeed developers address the noise issue with their usual brilliance and creativity. - Sean McBride
Great post as always, Steve! - Glen Stansberry
i must be tired. when i first saw this, i thought "tiny Friendfeed" was a FF mobile app like tinytwitter. d'oh! - Christian Anderson
