Interesting analysis. I have to think about this after I get some sleep. - Robert Scoble

content should be pulled not pushed +1 - Kirill Bolgarov

FF seems like a v powerful platform that is "almost" there on a bunch of apps. a pretty good twitter reader-but as you say doesn't bring in my full twitter feed. a great commenting engine-but Scoble still picks Disqus for his blog comment engine. a group email engine that could replace egroups/yahoogroups-but lacks the simple invitation engine required for that. a powerful real-time search engine-but doesn't index all of twitter...so close on so many things - Tim Connors

Interesting take, I believe that "3. Allow users to import their RSS feeds so they come in the steam as well." is already possible now, as RSS into a FF Room (now "group"). Or do you mean as a 1-click import option? That would be useful I guess, a "import all my Google Reader feeds at once" option. Agreed that it would be great if there were an option to select Twitter users from an avatar list (similare to FF subscribers, etc. now) to import as virtual friends into a FF Room when sending an invite, if they sign up, great, if not, no sweat. For Facebook this option may be trickier due to privacy settings, etc. - Alex Schleber

Alex is right. You can import any RSS you like (if it's not your own feed i suggest creating a group that is either public or semi public and adding the feed to that). Another thing... you CAN import twitter accounts for people not on friendfeed - Chris Heath

Chris, I think Lew is referring more to (semi-)automated import of larger numbers of Twitter users into a combined Room-type feed (if you want all your "following" in the so-called "with friends" feed, you can import that into e.g. Thunderbird. For FF it doesn't work b/c Twitter has that feed password secured). Right now the process is exceedingly manual... - Alex Schleber

Intriguing article. I would have to agree with one key element - it's far better to do one thing well than two things in a mediocre fashion. I don't see FF as a microblogging platform ... the features (that I have discovered thus far!) seem to make it a much better "aggregator of discussion". - Allan Besselink

Alex, yeah getting password protected RSS feeds into ff should be high up on the list of new features down the road - I know a lot of people have been asking for that. Also in regards to the 'import all my twitter friends not on friendfeed into a group' functionality ... AFAIK friendfeed does have a special firehose of all of twitter, but there's a special agreement on the use of it. - Chris Heath

I agree FF should try to be a better twitter client. This would be very useful. I also think it would be possible for them to become more useful than disqus for blog commenting. All we need is a good and easy to use wordpress plugin. - TobiasVerhoog.com