What's the difference between Friendfeed and... - Jeremiah Owyang

Facebook defaults to non-live, which is much easier for the mainstream user. I'd still like an in-between though. Update every 2 minutes or so. - Jesse Stay

like the old FriendFeed :-) - Jesse Stay

Search - you can search for information anywhere on FriendFeed, you can't do that on Facebook. - Hutch Carpenter

Because of Facebook photos, in-depth profiles and wall posts, I think you can get a more accurate picture of who a person is on Facebook. FB is more social than it is a network IMO - Michael

Subscribing - FriendFeed is the one-way follow, Facebook is the two-way subscribe model. FriendFeed lets you follow anyone, whether you know them or not. - Hutch Carpenter

Facebook has applications, but Friendfeeed does not - Jeremiah Owyang

They are different websites. - James Ferguson

"like" on Facebook doesn't bump the item on the top. "like" on Friendfeed doesn't notify you of new activity on that item. - Morton Fox

Relationships are asynchronous on friendfeed but not on facebook. I can subscribe to you but you're under no obligation to subscribe to me on FF. - Derek van Vliet

Facebook lets you automatically associate with a company or region. For FriendFeed, any such association would have to be manually created via a room. - John E. Bredehoft

Facebook is private, friendfeed is for public conversations. - Robert Scoble

+1 for Derek van Vliet - Jeremiah Owyang

My blog post today says that this new beta takes aim at Facebook: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009... - Hutch Carpenter

Facebook requires a 'real' identity, Friendfeed does not - Jeremiah Owyang

You can create 'imaginary users' in FF, but not in Facebook - Jeremiah Owyang

Friendfeed: fine control over what is displayed and good search. Facebook: don't miss things just because you were not there for the real-time stream. - Shamir Katsu

+1 for Derek van Vliet. The difference is relationship. - Ninh Nguyen

Watching this grow in real time, this is a REAL time chat room, Facebook is not - Jeremiah Owyang

FriendFeed is the real deal. - iTad

Good point J - is FF the new liveblog? - Daniel J. Pritchett

FB is not about conversation! - Vinit Sharma

Friendfeed is one step away from track; Facebook is still figuring out what the term means. - Karoli

agree with ron k jeffries: Facebook is more of a hub; Friendfeed is more of a stream of activity - Chris Rogers

All of my friends are on Facebook, none are on Friendfeed - Jamie

That is, how are FF threads going to compete with Twitter hashtags when it comes to blogging conference sessions or other live events? - Daniel J. Pritchett

facebook is and should only stay as an advanced phonebook - Stuart Evans

For the most part, in Facebook, I follow people because I know them. Here, I follow people because I find their output interesting. Hence I use Friendfeed much much more than I do Facebook, which is largely full of idiotic quizzes and inane apps to join. - Ian May

This is a *great* way to handle Scoble's famous "Here's why:" threads. - Daniel J. Pritchett

FriendFeed is a live discussion -meeting place -Facebook is more like a home..I like them both, but spend more time on friendfeed, because my interest is in the discussion...not just "hanging out" - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Liked the old FF UI since I could slow down the noise and filter out "real-time" - tony

Daniel, that's a good point - maybe they could make the comments real-time, but allow you to just pause the updates (or slow them down). I can handle real-time comments on updates - that's kinda nice, actually. - Jesse Stay

Super awesome bonus feature: As the owner of this new thread, wouldn't it be cool if Jeremiah could mix in another feed? Let's see this conversation interlaced with (or side by side with) a search on FF or on Twitter for relevant threads. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Facebook sucks - FriendFeed doesn't :-) Also - people who I don't want to talk to from High School are not on FF - andy brudtkuhl

Now that this cool discussion is going on, I want to see what else is happening in the "FF Beta" discussion space right now, without leaving this page. Better to let J (or any reader honestly) create the link and share it in-thread. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Was wondering about this. - Roberto Bonini

Jesse, that's a good idea, I noticed it ques up the updates, maybe we could adjust the que.... - Stuart Evans

I like being able to Queue a specific conversation. Might be better putting new comments on the top to avoid the need to scroll. - Glen Group

Facebook now doesn't care about relationship as much as before. It's not really real anymore. I see smb has thounsands of friends that's impossible but still remaining real identity. - Ninh Nguyen

Facebook is an utility for social relationships, Friendfeed is a tool to manage information and communication. - heri

heri - that's my thought as well - Hutch Carpenter

Facebook deploys an algorithm to determine feed contents. FriendFeed is "all". - Alan Edgett

Friendfeed is more about connecting with content while Facebook is more about connecting with friends. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Instant niche conversations on micro-topics like this one right here is a big ++ vs. FB. - William Mougayar

FriendFeed has Early Adopters, facebook has your Grandma - Susan Beebe

FriendFeed has smart Googler's that earned their way to achieving fabulous product success; not a spoiled kid from Harvard who stole someone else's code to launch his product - Susan Beebe

FriendFeed is constantly innovating and leading the way while facebook copies them. - Susan Beebe

FriendFeed actually cares about user feedback and utilizes this info to release product improvements; whereas, facebook continually pisses off their customers with unreasonable TOS and other crap - Susan Beebe

+1 Susan! - Charlie Anzman

LOL @andy friendfeed is the innovator, facebook is the gorilla - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Facebook is defined by its many modes of direct interaction, whereas FriendFeed has a couple of means for direct interaction and many modes of passive interaction... - Clay Newton

FF is for the hyper-active. Internet has 5 speeds: LinkedIn, Facebook, Google, Twitter, FriendFeed. - William Mougayar

Shld be re-named FriendSpeed. - William Mougayar

FriendSpeed - Too Fast, Too Furious - Jesse Stay

Pause. Manual refresh. Works for Me. - Ian May

lol Jesse - Karim

I don't use Facebook - that's the big difference for me :) - LPH™ and his dog P™

LPH, exactly. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Facebook is a steaming pile of crap that makes it easy for people to annoy you with quizzes and crap. FF rocks. - Jeremy Brooks

seems like a live news feed on cnn of some sort. - quang ngo

FriendFeed has less of a focus on connections and community... - Simon T Small