FriendFeed has always been about aggregation of all my content from outside first and foremost. - Louis Gray

So, subscribe to my blog: http://www.louisgray.com - Louis Gray

Follow my Google Reader shares: http://www.google.com/reader... - Louis Gray

Connect on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/louisgr... - Louis Gray

See my bookmarks on Delicious: http://del.icio.us/louismg - Louis Gray

My photos on Smugmug: http://louisgray.smugmug.com/ - Louis Gray

Yeah, what happens to the embeds on my blog eventually? - phil baumann

And I'll be on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile... - Louis Gray

It's just WAY harder this way. - Jandy

So even if this got erased tomorrow, which it won't, I will not stop pushing tech your way. Just connect every other place. *Yes, Jandy, harder, but doable*. - Louis Gray

I'll be glad when NetNewsWire enables sharing via Google Reader. - Akiva

That *is* a lot of work, and I'm not so good with the techy. :( - Derrick

We need a unified 'business card' site so we don't have to track these things individually. If you had some way to instantly handshake with other people and get automatic updates of all their activity around the net, then FriendFeed kind of becomes superfluous. - Akiva

Here I am, Akiva: http://www.google.com/profile... - Louis Gray

See how good I am? I thought up the idea and mere seconds later, it's been implemented, made available, and Louis Gray's already on it! - Akiva

Except for those of us who only hang out on FF now and don't really use other services =/ - FFing Enigma

Tina, maybe it's time to branch out a little? - Akiva

Of note, Paul and Bret (and the rest of the team) are going to work to ensure the doom and gloom will not come to pass. Just look at their comments over the last few days: Paul: http://friendfeed.com/paul... Bret: http://friendfeed.com/bret... - Louis Gray

Louis - Google Profiles is a fine listing, but no way to "connect" yet. LinkedIn is a basic card (although limited to the number of links you can have in your profile). Luckily we know how to reach you. - Stuart Miniman

Stu, nothing is perfect (except FriendFeed). I think everybody knows how to get me at this point. - Louis Gray

Andy, yes. FriendFeed started out as aggregation-only. But I have already seen people worried about getting their tech updates if this went away. So I wanted to unlink it all for now. - Louis Gray

Stuart's right. I was looking around for a subscribe button. - Akiva

Sorry Louis, but nothing in either Paul nor Bret's comments instills confidence. Its all one huge "if", and lets face it - they don't hold the reins anymore. - JCunwired

Akiva, the thoughts of branching out and starting up profiles at umpteen different places just so I can keep in touch with people makes my head swim. I like FF because I am inherently lazy and this interface works with that. Sending my photos to place x and statuses to place y and watching videos on place z no longer sounds like fun, that sounds like work =( - FFing Enigma

Tina, true. And I'm not talking about replacing FriendFeed (and neither is Louis) but making sure that what you ARE doing isn't so reliant on one single service that when that service goes away or morphs into something horrifying, you aren't left out in the cold. - Akiva

Oh, I know. But what I am doing is FF: if it goes away there's no option but the cold (or doing the social media work, and really, that's not being very lazy). - FFing Enigma

Agreeing w/ Tina - there are a number of sites that I don't create on or visit often that FF gave great visibility to and sometimes gave me reason to visit (or make me aware of in the first place). Oh well, hopefully it all gets sorted out in a couple of years... - Stuart Miniman

Louis: Sounds like you are making contingency plans for FriendFeed going under? Scoble's already saying he thinks the FB guy's won't invest here and now this from you too. It's not looking good. - Jim Connolly

Of all the content that aggregates here, I can recreate most of it. What I will miss most is the wonderful photographs I would never have seen before from flickr integration. Maybe Thomas Hawk has ideas on that one. - JCunwired

the problem is not so much the shared per service; but the shared to groups. There's some stuff I push to FF, which I don't push to a service - clarke thomas

Andy: That's what I am hearing from a lot of FriendFeed users. I blogged about it earlier and a commenter on the blog made a good point. He said FaceBook didn't buy FriendFeed to invest in it. If that's true (and I am startiing to think it is) then it's a matter of when FF closes - rather than if. - Jim Connolly

I guess really the only content that might NOT be as shared will be the native FF posts - particularly using the Bookmarklet. I suppose I can use "Press This" and post it to my blog from now on, just a little more effort, certainly. I tended to keep my blog for longer articles and FF for the small content. Guess we'll just have to all transition... - Nathan Chase

A few months ago I stopped posting anything I cared about as native friendfeed postings, mostly because they were getting lost in the river of other shares and updates. I extracted all of the old postings, saved them, and created a tumblr site (and later moved it to posterous). One can backdate entries in both tumblr and posterous, to match the date it was originally posted in friendfeed. - DGentry

crikey the passion or FFassion in this place is incredible. - Thomas Power

Personally I don't want to follow someone on a ton of different services. Especially when I don't want to be a part of those services (looking at you Delicious). - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I have a serious man-crush on Mr Gray - Johnny

Any of those services could be the FriendFeed of tomorrow, Louis. I don't trust this stuff anymore. - Shawn Farner

Not unless they have a solid plan in place to sustain their business. Waiting for someone to come and buy them isn't what I'm talking about. - Shawn Farner

this Gray guy is all over the place - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Yeah, watch out for him, Dobromir. - Louis Gray

doesn't look scary though I am also looking forward to seeing him IRL if it's meant to be... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Lifestream.fm, and Socialthing.com might be decent replacements. - PurpleZoe