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Friendfeed please don't go away.. - http://new2me.posterous.com/friendf...
October 18
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Johnny Worthington, Mark Edwards, Thomas Power and 42 other people liked this
I still use friendfeed to "play around" with ideas about how I want to interact with the web, as both a content consumer and provider. Nothing I've found (yet) can replace friendfeed's functionality, easy to explain "common interface" (WRT to twitter/feeds) and the simplicity/flexibility of their embedded pages and widgets.
- Chris Myles
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Reddit is another model of qna site when you use the self.reddit section to ask questions and get answers from the community.
- TrafficBug
nice essay Chris, worth reading a couple times to appreciate how many good points you tied together in just a few paragraphs. FriendFeed nails Teh Awesome from so many different angles - should be considered a living museum piece exemplifying how to program a graceful SN.
- Dan Freeman
Dan thanks, "a few paragraphs".. too funny, here I was thinking how ridiculously out of date I am when I can't summarize my thoughts in a couple of sentences, let alone 140 characters. I completely agree about the museum piece and don't understand why the big players "don't get it". I haven't watched those tools "grow up" so I don't understand the history, but as a "castaway" there seem to be some pretty HUGE gaps that make me say WTF? Isn't all this supposed to make our lives easier and LESS complicated?
- Chris Myles
Well probably really not so easy to design and program as the simple grace of FriendFeed might lead one to think. I am starting to appreciate it as a work of art - a rare masterpiece of social software engineering. And your post explained a few reasons why.
- Dan Freeman
Louis Gray just posted his reasons for sticking around (http://ff.im/bS8xj). Notice that neither of us is sticking around JUST for the community, we've found a tool that works and there isn't a suitable replacement (yet).
- Chris Myles
+Dan for referring to Friendfeed as a work of art. It is. I hate to see participation flagging. My own circle has died down a little bit lately. I'm searching for active new users. I see a couple of new people almost every day.
- Kamilah Gill
Johnny Worthington just added his thoughts with lots of detailed reasons (http://ff.im/bVMpo). Nice writeup!!
- Chris Myles