"Si entiendo bien, lo que plantea google es que los contenidos pagados no rankearan bien ya que los que son gratis "tendrán" más clicks.... pensando en que la cantidad de clicks genera mejor indexación de una noticia ( matt cutts lo dice en uno de sus vídeos. busco la ref.)"
- Francisco Kemeny
"My first "internet" was on Compuserve.... i learned how to read Tabs and play some cool songs on my guitar. I think it was a greenday song, cant remember which one, back in 94."
- Francisco Kemeny
I wanna say yes but I think I fall more in the "Hell if I know" category. :)
- pea
Yes. But I don't think new features will be implemented.
- imabonehead
FriendFeed with "improvements" ? FriendFeed as we know it today? Or friendfeed.com as a site? Yes, no, yes are my guesses. Two years no, no, no.
- Brian Sullivan
Well, very probably. But I don't think that I'll be here, myself.
- directeur
Yes, it will exist. And it will have more users. But with the expected demographic associated with the anticipated influx, I doubt I will be as interested in the service. For me, I'll wait and see who the Friendfeed community will be before I decide to invest further or cut my losses.
- Lorin Olsen
:) you've said that since Friendfeed launched directeur! :)
- Zee.
Friendfeed has always been about community and dialog. And I used the tool to test/sense the zeitgeist of tech luminaries that I respected. Twitter is a megaphone; Facebook is the shopping mall. I wanted Freindfeed to be the quiet coffee shop. But Friendfeed may now be over-run by a collection of nattering nabobs. If so, I'll go find a quieter shop where I can have deep and meaningful discussions. Disqus, anyone?
- Lorin Olsen
Easily yes, although "here" could mean "the website is still searchable."
- John E. Bredehoft
I fear not. The equation is [FF = (feeds+people+conversation) * interesting]. If interesting people and contents will migrate in another place, all their friends will follow them. Since FF will be not mainstream, no other people will replace them and so maybe there's not reason to let this service open. I'm afraid about this, really, but I think that a cloud architecture could be the right place for early adopters
- Roberto
It will likely still exist but the real question is if it will keep it's popularity.
- Stephen
Yes, in one way or another. The problem is, people are fleeing just because FB bought it...if too many goes away, whats the point keeping it up? Websites like this has to grow bigger and bigger or else they'll die. If FB wouldn't have bought it, I think FF would have died sooner or later anyway.
- Patrik Johansson
Yes, it will probably be around. Will it be recognizable as the Friendfeed we all know and love? I am much less confident about this. :o(
- Seth Greenblatt
Yes, and hopefully with many more users than now, thanks to the fb acquisition.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Yes - still the cleanest way to have intelligent conversations.
- Alan Morris
yes - they serve different markets. Facebook is for keeping in touch with friends. Friendfeed is for sharing ideas with people who share similar interests but who you may have never met.
- Simon Hicks
Yes..It is going to be here as it provides a cusp of Twitter and Facebook.. as i see it so there is a room for it to stay here longer
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Well I get the impression from Paul that it will be around for a while so I'd say yes but Facebook will gobble it up at some point (whenever the contract states). The team have been split up and thus fewer people are working and maintaining it. Let's hope some sort of FB Lite will accommodate us... but I doubt it.
- Kol Tregaskes
Maybe it will be integrated in facebook, but the innovations that friendfeed have will then move over to facebook, because they are awesome
- alfred westerveld
Friendfeed yes, the need to use it, no.
- Dani Radu
también me quedé lelo. Y ahora lleno de cosas y de gente, pero con esta parte del ojo leo lo de Techcrunch, Mashable y otros. Lunes sorpresivo!! Valor y fuerza a Bret Taylor y su equipo, contra los tiburones de Mark.
- Roberto Arancibia
Sorry, olvidé algo: Adivina quién es ahora el dueño de tus conversaciones en FriendFeed. No sé, tengo como un deja vu, pero no sé de qué.
- Roberto Arancibia
Al final, no encuentro que Facebook esté resultando una cosa tan terrible. Pero hay partes del servicio de Friendfeed que van en contra de la manera en que Facebook hace actualmente las cosas. Hasta ahora, a Facebook no le gusta que uno saque info hacia afuera, sólo que traiga info hacia adentro. Esa lógica de jardín cerrado es totalmente diferente a Friendfeed, que yo uso precisamente...
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- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
Recién leido en Mashable, acerca de nosotros, los usuarios: "Their fears are probably well-founded: there would be little point for Facebook to keep FriendFeed as a standalone site with so many overlapping features. Most likely, Facebook will simply make use of FriendFeed’s best features on its own site.
- Roberto Arancibia
Twitter Killer, una muy inteligentemente espantosa manera de ver Facebook+Friendfeed :s
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
No se si realmente la unión entre Facebook y FriendFeed sea un Twitter Killer, es mas, me parese que quienes tienen mas que temer son los de Google, que cada día se quedan mas y mas lejos de los perfiles de usuarios y la información generada en tiempo real.
- Francisco Kemeny
Es difícil visualizar ahora cómo podría ser la integración de Facebook y Friendfeed, pero lo preocupante es la lógica de jardín cerrado... el resultado de eso es que podrían simplemente matar Friendfeed, como Google hizo con Jaiku. Naturalmente, igual como hoy lo hace Facebook, Google en su momento no dijo que mataría Jaiku.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
Como bien dice Roberto: "The basic idea is that Facebook doesn’t want to disrupt the product…they’ll take a lot of idea that work well on Friendfeed and see how they apply to Facebook, and over time they’ll look at how to integrate the products.” http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Francisco Kemeny
Probablemente no lo maten así de rapido, al igual que Jaiku, la muerte sera lenta.
- Francisco Kemeny
Dejaran de desarrollar, de mejorar, de mantener. Eventualmente (espero) liberen el código. :)
- Francisco Kemeny
Creo que como varias otras que hemos visto por ahí, esta relación... it's complicated.
- Roberto Arancibia
Casi off topic, pero aprovechen de suscribirse al mailing de Jason Calacanis http://bit.ly/11w4BK Promete algo terremotístico en 10 minutos! "Apple's Secret plan that even fan boys should fear" -- going to release to Jason's list in 10 minutes.
- Roberto Arancibia
La pregunta de siempre.... FB buying FF... is bad news for FF users? Si a mi empresa la compra un gigante del rubro, es bueno?, es malo? Ya sé pos, depende. Pero para los users de FF será a) Bueno. b) Malo. c) Complicated :-) d) AC. e) BC. f) NPI.
- Roberto Arancibia
El antecedente de Jaiku es MUY malo, la verdad. Pero la verdad aun no se que pensar. Friendfeed no tiene el volumen para hacer que Facebook se preocupe de dejarlo seguir operando. Si desaparece sera por la falta de mantenimiento y actualizaciones ya que en muchas formas los que FB compro fue al equipo DETRAS de FF. Por otro lado, la combinacion FB y FF es de sentarse a pensar ya que FB...
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- Angel B
A principios de año escribí algo sobre Facebook y su creciente competitividad con Google... me resultó interesante revisitarlo y darme cuenta de que la adquisición de Friendfeed calza perfecto en la estrategia que ya se adivinaba entonces http://blog.canal.cl/2008...
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed
- Rick Bucich
so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook
- Francisco Kemeny
home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge
- John Furrier
So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :)
- Anthony Farrior
How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks?
- Jordi Soler
Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!"
- John Furrier
Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code.
- abdellah
You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =)
- SashaKane
do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert?
- Torsten Eckert
NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :(
- beersage
beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob.
- beersage
I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals.
- beersage
Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
Wow! I'm in shock. I can't wait to hear this interview.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else
- Stephen Pickering
@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list
- abdellah
now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing
- abdellah
Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on
- patrickdh
They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul
- Stephen Pickering
It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway.
- James Myatt
My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup?
- Alex Schleber
this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
"Great post Chris, but isnt this what we all have been doing for the past 6 months? i´ve noticed its no just doing everything you mention, but it also takes some outside help. Just as the Authority Rules white paper mentions, its what other people say about you that makes you popular."
- Francisco Kemeny
The sync between iPhone and desktop on TweetDeck is a cool feature
- rshore
so far my favorite is Reportage. I have tweetdeck installed, but i find it difficult to read, not so with any other twitter client. TweetDeck remains on of my 2 favorite desktop clients, the other being the web client TwitZap.com
- Ralph Friedman
Tweetdeck if they can squash the bugs because the syncing is good news. Tie between Tweetie and Twittelator for now.
- Warner Crocker
Tweetie is favorite for best duplicating the desktop experience. But Tweetdeck has great potential with the syncing feature. It crashes too much right now.
- Curt Moss
I've been happy using twitterfon, but I've been playing with tweetdeck, it looks like I might have to switch, syncing is a killer feature
- Ken Power
I use Tweetie. The reviews I've seen of Tweetdeck make it seem a bit too much for the iPhone. Are those reviews wrong?
- Curt Mercadante
Tweetdeck is the only iPhone app for twitter
- planetMitch
I'm still sticking with Twitteriffic. I moved over to Twitterfon because it started lacking with features, but moved back when it finally got the update it so needed. Don't really know why i like it so much, just always have. Just wish they'd update the desktop version too.
- Simon Wicks
Photogene because I can brand my photos with a text bubble before I upload.
- Craig Shipp
Twittelator Pro: myriad of features including URL inline minification/expansion; configurable RT format, pic provider, URL minifier; copy&paste; saving drafts; tweet URLs from Safari; and many more. one of the best apps I have purchased.
- Dennis Homann
Has crashed when using its browser feature
- Mark Traphagen
My must have iPhone Apps are: > Tweetie > TwitterLink - Allows Safari URL Shortening via bookmarklets > TweetDeck Hopefully TweetDeck can incorporate a few of the missing compenents which are keeping me from dropping the other two apps.
- Josh
Still tweetie. Tried others as they emerge, but the familliar interface to a desktop client, search, find user, favorite, trends all make it very powerful. A rework of the RT vs. Via is in order, but I can live with that.
- Erik Boles
Definately TweetDeck since it's been launched
- Michiel Sikkes
TweetDeck on the iPhone looks great, but I think it's pretty buggy. I constantly get the same notifications displayed and my groups got messed up (and then synced back to the desktop). But I'm looking forward to the next version.
- Oliver Bouchard
Twitterrific without hesitating. Tried TweetDeck but still a little buggy in my opinion.
- Nuno Ferreira
I use Twitterific and I'm pretty fine with it/
- Parth Awasthi
Tweetie. And, judging from the desktop client, it's only going to get better.
- Justin Hileman
I like Tweetie, Twitterrific and TweetDeck but also Twittelator which has a 'Groups' function. Really just waiting for the Seesmic iPhone app which will hopefully sync with Seesmic Desktop a la TweetDeck.
- Nick Reynolds
Twittelator. No other iphone app is as feature rich as this one. It also works well with backgrounder (from cydia).
- Rohit
I actually use the FriendFeed mobile interface more than anything else to view twitter on my iPod, but after that I use twitterfon. As Taavi said above, it's simple and it works. Thinking about trying the tweetdeck though. My son has it and likes it.
- Alex Hellstrom
I went from Twittelator to Tweetie and now to Tweetdeck on iPhone. Tweetdeck is the best thing out there right now IMO for hardcore tweeting, However, Tweetie still rules as a simple, elegant, beautiful UI, client for everyone else.
- Dean Kakridas
Tweetie. TweetDeck for iPhone is nice and is a smooth port from desktop to smartphone, but Tweetie is cleaner to me, not as dark or cluttered.
- David Price
Alex: yeah I use friendfeed a lot more than other Twitter clients, even on my iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
i tried tweetdeck but i like Twittelator Pro more
- Crusader
Switched to Tweetdeck after using Twitfon and Twitterific
- Jim Haw
Tweetdeck, recent convert from tweetie. It crashes when you add someone to a group column is all.
- Jay McCormack
TweetDeck needs Ping.fm integration for selective posting..it feels the lightest of the iPhone Twitter apps and feature wise I think it may now be the most complete..2nd fave is Tweetie.
- George Dearing
I'm liking Tweetdeck also but I bounce around from Twitterific to Tweetie also. Like the multiple columns in Tweetdeck.
- Jeff Gamble
Definitely Tweetdeck.. I wish I hadn't paid for tweetie..
- Can Koklu
TweetDeck after using TwitterFon for a while. Never used Tweetie and probably won't now. Background notifications on the iPhone would be cool. I can use it for @replys or DMs.
- Rolf Schewe
Sadly, I don't have an iphone. Anyone know of a good free symbian app?
- Pranav Bhasin
still using tweetie - have tweetdeck if I need to reference through my groups. but when i am mobile i usually only have time to pay attention to replies and directs - so speed and such is more important. Tweetie wins for me.
- Tony
I like Tweetie. Nice streamlined interface. Although Tweetdeck is nice, I just haven't used it as much since it came out.
- John Fox
I am still using Tweetie but just installed TweetDeck.. seems cool.
- nickgs
Love new tweetdeck on iPhone but it's too crashy, darn it!
- Susan Beebe
No mention of Nambu here. I use that on MacBook. Anyone use their iPhone client? What do you like/dislike about it?
- Larry Hawes
Tweetie, until TweetDeck fixes stability and adds ability to bookmark links.
- Tech Introvert
I have tried Nambu but use Twittelator Pro and occasionally Twitterific. Tweetdeck would have to be exceptionally good to be better than either of those.
- Gilbert Harding
Tried Tweetdeck (which is my desktop app) on iPhone for a couple of days. Too fiddly. Went back to Twitterfon. Really compact and streamlined. Now trying out Flock on desktop instead if Firefox/Tweetdeck combo.
- Narain Jashanmal
Although I have been playing with tweetdeck these past few days, I would still vote for tweetie
- Thomas Chai
@Pranav Bhasin: Gravity is a good twitter app for symbian.
- Hugh Macdonald
I'm using Tweetie, but edging closer to trying Tweetdeck. Tweetie does do everything I need right now.
- Martha
TweetDeck! Used to be Tweetie, but TweetDeck is far better!
- Farrell Kramer
Nambu is cool, multiple accounts, persistent search etc, integrated with tr.im/pic.im, unfortunately friendfeed and facebook are still "currently disabled"
- Liviu Barbat
I use TwitterFon (nonPro), but have been trying TweetDeck out. It is a little buggy as so far it has crashed out everytime I have used it, but I know this is v1 so am sure it will get better. I actually really like the interface as it is very well thought out. My only other gripe is that you need to go into a tweet's detail to go to a hyperlink, as opposed to twitterfon (and tweetie...
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- Travis Koger
Twitterrific 2.0 (The $4 Premium version). The UI is just spectacular. Combining all your replies and DMs in one stream, but still allowing them to be viewed separately, makes it really easy to interact with Twitter as a stream. Plus, more often than not, I find myself using the multi-post window to easily switch a DM to a reply, or vice versa. It's just great.
- David Chartier
Twitterrific 2.0 , tweetie and Tweetdeck in that order
- Wayne Sutton
TweetDeck, despite the occasional crashing, is my favorite right now.
- Paul Maez
Tweetdeck for sure. I like the feel and look of it.
- John Ford
Twitterrific and twitterfon for picking ppl across tweets to thank.
- Dave
from BuddyFeed
I use Tweetie. I tried TweetDeck but it crashed when doing what should have been simple operations.
- Michael Koby
Reportage has a very refreshing approach. I love it
- Guillaume Thoreau
oh Robert Robert... you should really add a poll to your threads from time to time :) as for your question: I have to say that TweetDeck is not my fav until someone new will launch a better app.
- Orli Yakuel
I use Nambu because of Friendfeed integration, but if TweetDeck gets this I would definitely switch
- Alberto Saavedra
from Nambu
Had Twitterific and TwitterFon for seperate accts, but TweetDeck is the best of the bunch.
- Dave Martinez
I bought Tweetie, but it seems limited after using other Twitter apps. My favorite is SimplyTweet, lots of features that work well and is being updated often.
- Brandon
from BuddyFeed
I was a Tweetie guy, but Tweetdeck may be replacing it for me.
- Joey Gibson
I played with TweetDeck and liked it, but I simply don't use all of the custom panel stuff that it does, so Tweetie does the job for me just fine. The UI is awesome, responsive and (above all) simple. It does exactly what I want and, more importantly, what I expect it to do.
- Brett Kelly
Tweetie : very stable and reliable. Does need a refresh but nice customization options make it for that.
- ashish
TweetDeck is my favourite app for the iPhone, although Tweetie is a close second. The sync feature and what I think is slightly better navigation through the different columns put TweetDeck ahead. TweetDeck is also free, which if I hadn't already bought Tweetie, may have had some importance.
- 321
I like Tweetie because if I get behind or want to see older tweets, I can just click "More" and it loads more of them. Can't figure out how to do that on the desktop version of TweetDeck, so I'm assuming teh iPhone version doesn't do it either.
- RobinDotNet
I like Tweetie. I tried the new TweetDeck and couldn't get into it. So my combo is seesmic on the desktop and Tweetie on the iPhone. We'll see what happens when seesmic introduces their iPhone app, though.
- Josh Asbury
Was twitterfon fan but the Tweetdeck groups sync is a winner.
- Gregory Go
from iPhone