Every once in a while I come across a Web 2.0 application that really stands out from the crowd. Usually the distinguishing factor ends up being simplicity. - Ryan
Thread comments.
Expose you, for better or worse, to people you're not following directly.
Support links, photos, video.
Aggregate lifestreams but allow you to filter out services (a la BrightKite, though I like BrightKite).
Identify "hot" topics and filter for them.
And yeah, not go down. Yet. - Ryan via fftogo
They shouldn't be compared. I need a bullhorn. - Bwana McCall
No "Gateway timeout HTTP 503 response" errors when third party apps communicate with their server. - Patrick Kearney
1. Importing feeds from other services. 2. Uptime. 3. Comments. 4. Imaginary Friends. - will killian
it's a lot easier to ignore people or conversations on FF. If I follow someone who makes 200 tweets a day, I have to wade through them on Twitter. On FF, I'm not subjected to that much stuff - Joseph Z.
FF works. Plus FF has threaded conversations. - wrecks
I think will killian pretty much has it. I also like the ability to see the content driving the most conversation, via the "Show best of" feature. Being able to pull feeds into rooms has a lot of potential as well. - Greg Schwartz
What I think neither of them do well is conversations. But FF definitely has the upperhand thus far - Rob Fuller
What would friendfeed be without Twitter? My concern for friend feed is that it can be self spamming, it seems cluttered in a way. Twitter is more light weight and desirable even on your mobile device. I will not deny that friend feed can do all that twitter can and some. I'm not yet confident calling it direct alternative, more like a good supplement to twitter for social network junkies such as ourselves. - Tatenda Mbavarira
FriendFeed lets me follow fewer people and get so much more in return. - blackmailismylife
This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This This. - Hao Chen
It's a one-stop shop for EVERYthing someone updates. The flickr mini-gallery is a joy to look at and seeing responses from a "friend of a friend" is as neat as senor Scoble said. Only downside (for me) is that it's SO much info that I can't check it as quickly and casually as I would/do Twitter. - Alex
I second - not go down constantly. Also allows for ease of conversation grouping. Although for mobile I prefer Twitter. - Aunesty Janssen
FF aggregates content from tons of services, and Twitter doesn't. But they're two completely different services, you're comparing apples to oranges. Can I update FF via SMS? Can I post my location? Get replies from FF users via SMS? Can I plug unique services like Overheard or IOU into FF? No. - David Chartier
FF is much better at aggregating content and it lends itself well to in depth conversation threads. Twitter is easier to use for engaging in multiple chats at one time but harder to follow a single conversation thread. - Karen Swim
(1) community structures on ff. elitist "twitter whore" blockers are avoided here. if you block you will miss dialog. There are no other issues. social networks are inherently "social", and denying gender structure has always been the great flaw of society. friendfeed takes the sorority out! goodbye eMom and Volvo Soccer Moms! - Noah David Simon
I don't get to read only one side of a conversation when it happens with one of my FF friends. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
It compiles everything, not just 140 character status updates, has comment threading, and is a better community overall - Grant
note that @amandachapel is rarely on friendfeed. think about why she wouldn't like it here! and why would Robert Scoble go on a private feed. Strumpette might be a man, but her personality is sorority like. Female structures get lost here. - Noah David Simon
I think of FF as Twitter plus bookmarking plus access to my friends' activities on networks I don't participate in (I don't use Seesmic or Jaiku, for example, but I like seeing when friends do). Plus commenting and likes are good. - Marshall Kirkpatrick
It has been said but needs repeating. Mutual symbiosis is the name of the game. They both fill a distinct need. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Marshall: agreed. It's a recommendation engine, too. You follow interesting people and their activities "recommend" interesting things that are worth you attention. - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy
I don't like the FF threads. Time consuming. Becoming like IRC. Prefer Twitter. Simpler. - James Carroll
A lot of the comments best sums it up - It simply works. I also like the sense of community. I created a room, and I started topics. Those topics grew, and now people are starting their own topics in the room I created. The other good feature is that when one person comment everyone following them see your feed. Twitter could learn a lot from friendfeed. - Gerard Lagana
@noahdavidsimon interesting complexes has this lord Farquade (C) Shrek I - silpol
elitist personal attacks mean u didn't address my point silpol.1 liners work better on twitter, which is exactly my point. - Noah David Simon
twitter is to Ron Paul as friendfeed is to McCain. One liners to complex economic issues will not work here. friendfeed is closer to life. no more gold standard solutions. the guy in the back with a response will not be drowned out by the hippie mob. - Noah David Simon
this is sweet, the more I play w/it the better it gets! Sync so much to this (flickr, g reader, utube ect.) and I can even send this to twitter as a reply. It's sick, almost feel bad for twitter. - Gaspare
Beautiful, from the start to the closing credits, so many clever visual jokes you'd have to watch it a few times to get them all, and can someone identify that familiar boot-up sound for Wall.E? - Chris Nuttall
ok, Google wins, it's the Mac boot-up, I somehow was associating it with Win 3.1 - Chris Nuttall
WALL-E was amazing. I'm a big fan overall, and I think it's Pixar's best yet. - Lon Harris via twhirl
Absolutely. Visually stunning, sure, but with a great story (genuine 'cautionary' science fiction). And yeah, the startup 'bong' is the easiest way to gauge the Mac-using population in the audience. - Ryan
Yes. My impression was that the character development and relationship between WALL-E and EVE are the real gems here - AAA. It's more Romance than Scifi imo. - Jason
I took kids 3, 9, 11, & 14 -- they all liked it. I liked it too. Very clever and interesting. Oh, and stay to watch the "wallpaper" under the credits at the end.. it's actually a continuation of the story. - Frank Derfler
Jason- I can't wait to see it. Of course Pixar is all about technical brilliance, but what sets them apart is that they're genius at conveying human relationships and behavior. - Donna Mugavero
I thought it was great. My wife through it was a little preachy, since it's obviously a commentary on the American lifestyle. - Jason Huebel
it was fantastic. saw it yesterday and want to see it again. leave it to pixar to make me care about a robot and a roach. - Mark Outten
Hey there! :) Still having this isse Bwana and Rafael? Can you please help me in fixing it by describing exactly what hapened? Thanks a lot :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Now that I think about it, I think I clicked on "My Likes" first.. it's all a blur at this point. - Bwana McCall
Thanks Bwana for the details. I think you understand how hard for me is to fix a bug I actually can't reproduce... So your details are really welcome :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Branding one’s self in an online environment built on entropy and go-baby-go is difficult at best, and impossible if you forget to take your happy pills. To that end, I’ve come up with a quick list of 100 things you might do to help with these efforts - Ryan
This is pretty cool idea, a whole set of hand picked stories - and you can't even directly tell who they are coming from, so no biased clicking :) - Tim Hoeck
Erhan, That should be interesting adding it to G Reader. Let us know your results, I might do the same. I think the duplicates might kill it. - Mike Fruchter
Mathew so far interesting. The concept as a whole is not a bad idea. I have found some interesting stories in that room, I other wise would never have saw. It's like a team of hand picked editors, lot of duplication comes with the same people having the same interest's and likes. - Mike Fruchter
Negatives
* Duplication of content
* Stories with a note, get imported into the room as a comment. On Friendfeed it shows me as the person who left the comment, not the actual person who noted it in their Google Reader.
http://michaelfruchter.com/blo...http://snipurl.com/2oy1o - Russellreno
The holy grail = solves the duplication of content - Russellreno
I just loaded Share your Google Reader into Feedly. There were many new items and a lot less duplicated content than I expected. - Russellreno
Mine is at http://www.google.com/reader/s... I'll have some social media stuff, but also software testing, baking, and some odds and ends in the mix, since I don't have a single theme for my feeds or what I share. - Andy Tinkham
since you don't know me, not sure if you're interested in my feed, but it's here: https://www.google.com/reader/... Maybe this will encourage me to use the share feature more regularly. - Erin
Russell, That's very interesting, I think i may try that. Also experimenting with a Yahoo pipe that would solve the duplication issue to an extent. - Mike Fruchter
Andy, Jason, Erin, Thanks for participating. Feeds have been added. - Mike Fruchter
wow.. this feed works nicely in my google reader. I added a filtering option using yahoo pipes to remove duplicate url submissions. We'll see how that turns out :) - Tim Hoeck
Google Earth Outreach: Enter data in an on-line spreadsheet to generate a set of placemarks in Google Earth and Maps. Google Docs editing allows your team members to simultaneously enter data and instantly publish updates. - Ryan
Embed a dynamic map of a public Google Spreadsheet on your webpage. After loading in your spreadsheet data and customizing the map, you can copy the generated code into your webpage. - Ryan
indeed. 10x the amount of traffic. i'm scared. - MG Siegler
Presuming downtime, where else is everyone going to be? FF room 'WWDCTalk'? - Ryan
Honestly, I don't think it'll matter. If they withstand it, the Twitter faithful will rejoice and continue to evangelize the service. If they fail, the Twitter faithful will chalk yet another outage and rationalize it due to WWDC. Either way, the Twitter faithful will stand behind Twitter. - Bwana McCall
Ryan, there's a stevenote room, and there was some talk of engadget using Friendfeed to liveblog, but that seems to have dwindled. My poison for stevenotes is Macrumors for the info, Engadget for the pictures, Gizmodo for the snarky commentary. - Mark Trapp
A simple carpool site to find rideshare opportunities in your neighborhood. Anonymous signups, start-and-end map points, works in any city that Google Maps does. - Ryan
A simple carpool site to find rideshare opportunities in your neighborhood. Anonymous signups, start-and-end map points, works in any city that Google Maps does. - Ryan
Walking in flip-flops is a possible cause of aches and pains all over the body, according to a new study from the American College of Sports Medicine. - Ryan
"Your life, on the line." A new Twitter alternative, with a timeline, threaded conversations, and several quirky elements. Here's my profile on the service. - Ryan
They aren’t the same. Twitter is a service that will always be open, while Plurk is a service I can go to when I have a little free time and want to engage in some great, longer conversations with my online friends. - Ryan
My personal favourite aspect is the Twistori effect, wherein my plurks are fed through tags like "loves,""likes,""shares,""feels,""thinks," and "asks." I'm sure i'm just associating my zen in its use, but it is, i find, a fun aspect. - Ryan
What makes it different and sets it aside from Twitter are all huge advantages for me; aside from the timeline view. I can see using Plurk as a means by which to have more personal interaction. - Ryan
PC Magazine: Plurk takes the Twitter idea of constant, short updates and builds on it with better visual elements and lots and lots of features. - Ryan
Webware: Plurk is a creative nanoblog service but feels a bit redundant in the Twitter/FriendFeed era. There is the chance it could open up the nanoblog concept to a new group of users not on the current platforms, though. - Ryan
FriendFeed is all about the comments and the discussion. Stay a while, leave some comments, and use the 'Like' function liberally (but not too liberally!). - Mike Doeff
Thanks, Mike. As soon as there's a lightweight iPhone view, I might really give FriendFeed a shot. - Ryan
About 70 years have passed since the Bon Ton Girls, collectively known as the Bon Ton Social Club, brought their youth and beauty to downtown Honolulu streets, capturing the attention of Honolulu's earliest fashionistas and a male admirer or two. - Ryan
RFID, the evil-of-the-year for privacy advocates, turns up on a luggage tag. No worse than a bar code, or a nefarious gateway to private information? - Ryan
Two rooms now for me.. I dig this concept. I like that things I room share still show up my my normal feed. - Brad McCrorey
I gather rooms can't have the same name as FriendFeed users? - Ryan
Ryan: shouldn't matter, since they're handled by a different controller within the webapp (judging by the URL, anyway) - Brett Kelly via Alert Thingy
Wow this just posted to my twhirl and I already have an invite to a FF room. I need more time for this stuff, it is great but what do I do with the other 12 hours of work that I already am committed to help! - Jon Erickson via twhirl
Brett Kelly: I would have guessed so, but I tried to create one and it said it's not available (nor does it exist). I started typing in other FriendFeed usernames, even those that most likely wouldn't have started a room, and got the same result. Not a bad limitation, just a curious one. - Ryan
