First thing -- I publish feeds with full text, so why doesn't FF pick that up and do something nice with it. Look at this view of my latest blog post. http://beta.friendfeed.com/e... Why do people have to go to my site to read the post? This is a feed reader, right?? Why not have a plus sign or a wedge and allow me to expand it to read the essay in place. As an author I have to believe a lot more people would read it. I'm getting comments from people who I know haven't read the piece. That would be less likely if they didn't have to go to another site to read it. - Dave Winer

Second -- do a ping server. What's the big deal. I would make it so my tools can optionally ping FF. There's already a well-established standard here, all the major blogging tools could instantly be configured to support it. - Dave Winer

Third -- give me a command in the popup menu for a feed that allows me to say "fetch it now" -- I'd do this when I know I just posted some pics to Flickr or added some items to my Netflix queue. Sure someday all this will be efficient, but for now you have humans who would be willing to do this for you, so why not take advantage of it. - Dave Winer

All great ideas. - Bret Taylor

Actually, the 1st one is a great way to use all that blank white space on the right, you could view it in a frame like G Reader instead of clicking through to the site. That would increase productivity for sure. - Sally Church

Awesome. I have a lot more where that came from. Here's one. I want to be able to add my own commands to the popup menus. I have no how idea how that would work short of you implementing a scripting language, which I'm sure is doable. I want to shoot things from here to other places, that's usually waht I want to do. Twitter doesn't have the same capabilities as FF, but that's where most of the people are. - Dave Winer

Friendfeed is *not* a feedreader. - Peter

I agree with Peter Friend Feed is not a feed reader! It's a blogging platforum, it's away to get a message out, basicly away to communitcate and be heard. A feed reader is ussually one sided, and boring. Friend Feed is not boring. - Colide81 (James)

Dave: there is the ability to 'fetch it now'. Add/edit items, select the service in question, click the 'refresh feed' link in the lower right corner of the box. It updates on command. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Peter: Wouldn't be great if FF become a great feedreader at the same time,maybe we could spend less time on Google Reader.And I bet it rocks! - Steve Chou

I agree that #1 would be a great addition. It would let me read a lot more content here on FF and be able to give a lot better feedback. - Gordon Bowman

Dave, we do monitor both the google and weblogs.com ping servers, so any ping sent there should be picked up by FriendFeed within a few minutes. That said, we should probably just create one of our own as well. - Paul Buchheit

#1 Idea rocks. A long time ago, I said FF is a blogging platform and can't wait till we see it evolve even more! I would rather have my blog here than any place else, but the text boxes are too limiting. Please add a new "blog" post type so we can add a 1 page blog piece (obviously it can't be too long). Next, we'll need a user profile page for bloggers (premium user) - Susan Beebe

FF is not a feed reader (but I agree with Dave -- it should be -- if it had an option to expand posts a la the iGoogle Google reader gadget it would be perfect). FF is also not a blogging platform (but it should be) -- let FF posts be multi paragraph, longer than currently allowed and allow inclusion inline of pictures and it would allow real blog like posts (for those of us who don't or no longer blog). - Brian Sullivan

Sounds like Dave wants to make FF into Pownce with #1. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

This is the second old post I've seen revived today. Very cool feature. - Russellreno

I disagree, the comment function allows substantial elaboration of a post & you can add numerous pictures. There's no reason why FF should be yet another blog reader when there's such thing as tabbed browsing, but should rather be an index or resource for favorite subscriptions/blogs you'd like to read in depth further & elsewhere. - sofarsoShawn