FriendFeed is a superstar team. It is -- by far -- the most interesting startup to watch right now.
- Robert Scoble
you're not just saying that are you Robert? ;-)
- Nathan Eckenrode
My 12th grade English teacher always said never to use "in my opinion" because it's implied when you say something subjective. :)
- Internet's Tad
I agree with Robert on that. I am def. watching FF
- Kyle Lacy
Nathan, look at the facts. FriendFeed has, what, eight employees? The latest one to join was Gary Burd. His team at Google did Google Talk and he was the guy who opened Google's Kirkland office. How about Bret Taylor? During his four years at Google, he led more than 25 successful product launches, including Google Maps, Google Local, Google Web Toolkit, the Google Maps API, and Google’s Developer product group. more next...
- Robert Scoble
Paul Buchheit? He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail, which anticipated many aspects of Web 2.0, including the idea of Ajax, long before that term was coined. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2001 meeting on company values.
- Robert Scoble
This is an absolute superstar team and anyone who even questions whether it is or not simply does NOT know what they are talking about. It is -- by far -- the most interesting startup to watch right now and I'm underplaying that by a long shot.
- Robert Scoble
Sanjeev Singh is a former Google engineer, playing a role in both Google Mail and Google Search Appliance. Prior to Google Sanjeev worked at social annotations site Third Voice and a government research lab.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin Fox: from 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader.
- Robert Scoble
Louis Gray, can you fill in the other team members? Sanjeev Singh is another one, who is a great developer.
- Robert Scoble
Tudor Bosman is another. Is a great developer from Google, and was principal member of technical staff at Oracle.
- Robert Scoble
By far my most addicting and favorite website, and I've only been using it for a touch over a week.
- Bradley McSpinn
Scoble: makes me think you are also a secret member of FF ;)
- Muthu Ramadoss
The only other active competition is Facebook, and that explains why FF is not able to fetch feeds from there.
- Muthu Ramadoss
Muthu: I'm not compensated by FF, nor do I have any investments in anything I cover. Facebook is a closed walled garden, which even Google can't get into.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I know.. I was kidding about your FF involvement. I read most of your posts and am aware of your positions. Agree with your Facebook theory. Would be very interesting to watch how Facebook grows in future.
- Muthu Ramadoss
absolutely, ff is just awesome. Its bringing best of digg, reader, twitter,jaiku and probably a lot
- Umesh Kakkad
FF is better than google...there I said it! it's true!! seriously
- Susan Beebe
New Facebook is more like Friendfeed now. Hmmmm.....
- Muthu Ramadoss
FriendFeed is very community-driven. I see people comment a lot on Facebook but I've not really got into that. It's got to be one or the other. If anything I cross-post on FF and FB can have its comments shared between the two as well that that would be wonderful.
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't think that's going to happen. Facebook has so many more users than friendfeed, why should they cooperate?
- Andrew Pass
Facebook will not worry about Friendfeed, now that they have got Friendfeed like discussions setup and running.
- Muthu Ramadoss