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Hayes Haugen
As people have left, FriendFeed has gotten more interesting, again. It's a condensing community. What might pop out?
November 6
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Ed Millard, Helen Sventitsky, Victor Ganata and 9 other people liked this
The "condensing community" description is an interesting one, Hayes. I think that's a significant factor. Add to it the fluidity with which you can become an acquaintance, then a familiar, then an integral part of a group. With persistence and patience, some amazing things are facilitated here.
- Micah Wittman
It has the forum problem: more interesting when it is a small focused group.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@ Micah well-said.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Maybe a lot of the boring people left.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
MVB exactly. Robert: sorry right now I don't want to solve the forum problem. I'm emailing my friends cool links to old MC5 vids instead of posting those links. And I'm thinking about that.
- Hayes Haugen
Thing is Robert, my group sizes here have been stable from before the buyout and since - and rewarding/high quality. It didn't get un-focused during the highest absolute visitor count era, and it's not too narrow now. In other words, between the built-in tools of FF + how I used the site, I've maintained what for me is an optimal set of connections. I can only speak for my experience, but there you go.
- Micah Wittman
Hayes and Micah: How do you make it work for you? Give me a couple hints. Right now I'm getting mostly Robert Scoble and links, which is fine, but I know I'm missing other interesting tech stuff. Everytime I broaden my follows or add a list I get too much junk. Any specific ideas?
- Leigh Marriner
Low expectations.
- Hayes Haugen
from email
I wish FF provided more of the tools of a twitter app. As it is, I don't have much use to check in very often. If it replaced my twitter app, I would be here all the time. I do like the conversations that grow forth here.
- Andrew Schleicher
Leigh you need to subscribe to more people and then the diversity in you feed will increase.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
Actively add and remove people. Put the noisy but interesting people in their own room and visit it occasionally.
- Hayes Haugen
Also start filtering. Hide all (whatever) from everyone. That sort of thing.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod