Less than two days after Scrabulous was yanked from Facebook under threat of a copyright suit by Scrabble-creator Hasbro, Scrabulous' developers are back with something a little different. - Leo Laporte
If you compare it to Twitter, you'll see Twitter growing ad a lower percentage but higher numbers despite the recent string of outages they've had. http://siteanalytics.compete.c... - Joel Gray
We need a room in FriendFeed to display growth stats and info on breakdown of new users entering FF arena. Of course we'd need Bret / Paul to supply the data and visualization chart info, etc. - Susan Beebe
prediction. Within one year FF has more unique visitors than Twitter. - Thomas Hawk
@Thomas Hawk: Having used FF for a few days now, the only way I can see Twitter growing is if it is acquired by a larger company (Yahoo!?). - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl
I love FF, but I'll take you both up (thomas & bwana) on that prediction, unless Twitter completely implodes and loses significant portions of it's userbase, I don't think FF will catch up within a year. - felix
It's hard to say, but IMO Twitter is better suited to the less-technical folks. FF puts a lot of information (potentially) in front of someone and I can see that being confusing to a large cross-section of users. Of course, FF may (hopefully will) continue to add features that might help cut down the noise for those that do not want it which could lend weight to @Thomas' prediction. - Joel Gray
I'll truly believe in the growth of FF when the conversations aren't about FF. - William Beem
that looks like a level off. I think ff loses a lot by not feeding vanity. good for me though, but it chases off the twitter whores - Noah David Simon
I agree with Joel Gray and think FF serves more of a niche than Twitter. - Mike Reynolds
Yeah, I just discovered it last week. Sneaky! Would be good if they have the same thing for your FB friends' email addresses. Or is that something I missed too?...via feedalizr - Shannon Low
Wow thats tricky. Didn't know I could get that - Katie
We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor
@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor
Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora
Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble
Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble
How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray
perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - krz9000
Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky
Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood
This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano
hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith
This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson
Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix
Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe
Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill
Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer
Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai
Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me. - Andrés David Aparicio
wow, that's actually kinda...useful! - Sarah Perez
This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using? - Chris
My guess would be comments and likes - Bwana McCall
Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov
What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana McCall
Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel
I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe
@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur
Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai
Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo
This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter
Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane
Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini
This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott
awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling
I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - possible248
Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor
Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson
That's one of my favorite bumper stickers. For those who don't know, http://127.0.0.1 will take you to your home machine (er, local machine). If you have a Web server running on your laptop, for instance, it'll get that server to show you something. So, there's no place like "home." - Robert Scoble
"You don't need to plunk down $90 for a Wii Fit to track your progress toward a healthier body—even if that downhill skiing game looks mighty fun. If you're trying to curb unnecessary calories and stick to an exercise plan, there are tons of free applications that want to see you succeed. Whether you're facing a fast-food menu or polishing off a light entree, you can log, track, and make healthy decisions from your desktop, or just as easily from a phone." - edythe
Those only help you accomplish your goals, but owning a wii fit always you to pretend you are cool - RAPatton
Why so hard and rough? I would miss twitter, maybe I am not so involved in FF but I like the speed of twitter. I am missing so many followers here! - SteJules via twhirl
Now you've done it Twitter, Duncan is on the warpath. - Bwana McCall
I hope FriendFeed isn't the one to kill Twitter, most FFers filter out tweets anyway. But if there can be a way to separate Twitter-type conversation from the other aggregated content in FF, then Twitter will be in trouble. - Shey
Not one to drop links in comments, and if FF had item permalinks I'd link directly to the FF item I found this at. You can easily import your twitter friends into FF with this little tool. It's rough but works like a charm. http://oxalon.com/productivity... sorry Duncan, it's PC only now, but if you still have one lying around it's worth it to fire it up just for that program. - Paul Short
FF items do have permalinks. Click "More" then "Link to this entry". - Shey
OOH! Thanks a million Shey. You da man! Still a noob to FF so I'll need some guidance while making the transition ;-) - Paul Short
The link Paul provided - I used that tool, it took four runs to get the entire twitter list imported (following 300). It kept dying at the same place, and I removed the next twitter friend on my list, I would start over, and it would proceed on past its failure point, and then crap out again. I then had to remove yet another person from my follow list until we got through it all. I'm sure that has nothing to do with twitter outages though! - Christopher Dickens
@shey and that's pretty much what I'm saying. The core twitter simplicity isn't in FF yet, but they have the talent and base to create it and offer it as a Twitter killer. - Duncan Riley via twhirl
We know that Twitter is screwed, but aside from FriendFeed who else could build a replacement that meets the criteria of competency, people, scale. The guys a FF know what they are doing, if we had a FF Room but it was a Twitter style message service for those who want it stand alone, and clients can use the API to tap into that... - Duncan Riley
Something needs to happen - twitter has uncovered previously unmet demand but cannot deliver technically. There is a clear gap for a competitor. One thing with friendfeed is you cannot import your twitter contacts easily yet. - Kate
@Christopher It worked perfectly for me and I have about 360 followers. I guess I must have hit the program, or twitter, at the right time. @Kate, give that tool a try. No guarantees (see @ to Christopher) but even if it craps out it's probablly still faster than crossreferencing by hand. - Paul Short
@Duncan That's a good point. Are you thinking they can base a new service off the existing FF architecture? That would speed up development instead of having to re-invent the wheel - Shey
I've been saying this all week.. may need to re-up my thoughts and keep poking away - Julian Baldwin
Christ, that titles a bit drastic. I'll remember to laugh when FriendFeed gets as many users as Twitter and starts crashing all the time. - Jake Fudge via twhirl
Arrington once said "Demo needs to die," now we have "It's Time for FriendFeed to Kill Twitter." We can't just have "I prefer Brand X" anymore. "It's time for Peter Pan peanut butter to reach inside the ribcage of Jif, eviscerate its still-beating heart and raise it in triumphant exultation before sinking its fangs into the hot, bloody carcass to the stunned amazement and terror of all other brands of peanut butter." Allllllrighty then. - Karim
But what kind of linkbait would "I prefer Brand X" be? :P - Shey
@Jake I Tweeted a FriendFeed hork earlier this evening. ;) - Cyndy
@Shey Well I assume you're addressing me. And yes, I stand by my point for very good reasons. I'm not flaming for flaming sake here, nor am I some Twitter fanboy. I just think it's ridiculous that for a service which no-one pays for and is obviously very important to most internet user's lives, the online community respect is for it to die. Nice. If this is the reaction to a startup going through hard times due to it's own success, the Web2.0 bubble will burst sooner than expected. - Jake Fudge
The "you dont pay so you shouldn't complain" argument doesn't really fly with me anymore. I'm investing my time, my most important resource, in your service so you can build a business model around me in due time. I agree we owe them some patience. But don't they have to be held to an account also? Tell about another significant startup service that has this kind of downtime that's gonna pop this "web 2.0 bubble".... - Shey
Free is not an immune-from-criticism pass. Also, the "startup" excuse is getting old too. Twitter was established July, 2006, they're coming up on 2 years old. If you can't take criticism *when your system sucks*, then you shouldn't be in business. Period. If users didn't care about Twitter, they wouldn't complain. - Bwana McCall
I agree. Two years is long enough to scale the service... Twitter may have missed its window of opportunity. - Bill Sodeman
Twitter been around since 2006? Boy, don't I feel all late and junk... - Outsanity
Got to agree with Shey, Twitter wants to be a utility provider but they can't even get that right, and in terms of payment it's their decision to offer it for free + without advertising. Twitter has only one purpose: provide a microblogging service, and it can't successfully do that. - Duncan Riley
This may be a little harsh, but think of it this way: if Twitter was a dog we would have put it down by now. - Duncan Riley
FF just isn't sticky to me. It's an adjunct to Twitter, seen 1-2 times a day, whereas I have Twitter on all day, dipping in frequently. Has anybody read this http://twurl.nl/aykym3 or this http://tinyurl.com/6j6bex Both address directly what is going on with Twitter, and how they'll handle it. No need to jump ship and bomb it while you leave! - Paul Smith
With IM turned off Twitter is noticeably quiet tonight, but is there also strike going on? - Larry Kless
maybe a 302 temp redirect to friendfeed, people need to communicate what do u know - Dobromir Hadzhiev via twhirl
Now if someone hacked the Something is Wrong page to redirect to FF, that would be something - Kevin Bondelli
That page should just re-direct users to FriendFeed automatically....save me a click! - Susan Beebe
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some kind of homeostatic equilibrium. if they're down, they make gazillions and buy new servers. then they're up and continue to grow until the new downtime... - Benedikt Koehler
Why didn't FriendFeed do this first? FriendFeed w/adsense...only Friendfeed doesn't make any money on it. - Robert Seidman
@Robert: Focus. Same reason Google Reader hasn't made a ReadBurner. They could, but imagine how it would look as they have global data. My understanding is... we don't always know what it is we want. And if they delivered a true "Popular Shared Links Tracker"... it'd be pretty dull. - Louis Gray
Right on time...this is exactly what I was looking for. - Threepwood
Was this not done by FriendFeed? This is a total trademark violation. If I were working at FriendFeed I'd be hiring lawyers right now. Also, it's very lame how it doesn't link back to our accounts on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
Robert - and to answer your question - FF didn't do this first because they're trying to solve a bigger problem: exposing each user to stuff that's _relevant to them_. Without some serious magic behind the scenes, so-called "popular link dumps" are a step back. - Aviv
Aviv (and Louis, too) I hear you re: focus, but I think you underestimate the value of "meme-ing" things by "most shared, liked, commented, etc" -- not to mention Scoble would love that! If you only want your target market to be people who want to figure out what's relevant to them -- OK, but I think there's a huge market of people who want to know "what did the aggregate think is important". - Robert Seidman
FriendFeed will crush this by doing it better. - Mo J
FriendFeed needs to add negrates as a feature. - Prokofy Neva
can someone mention i broke the news on TechCrunch France :) ? - ouriel
And now also available via twitter , simply follow @friendfeedlinks - Stijn Wijndaele
Way too much duplication with Readburner & RSSMeme for me. - Kevin D. White
Nice, but I think I would find it more useful if it de-duped only the links shared by my friends on FriendFeed. - Michael Hocter
This is so true, I find that I am checking friendfeed before google reader now. - Adam Posey
I stopped subscribing in gReader to folks who are in FriendFeed, but that hasn't made a huge impact on my reading yet. It will be interesting to see how it affects stats...since it appears that FeedBurner reports FriendFeed as a bot, so only counts if the item is loaded in browser, not as a subscription, right? - Judi Sohn
Do you use the imaginary feature to pull feed into FF that aren't already there? Also, I just discovered the power behind the "Like" link. It's like staring or sharing something in Google Reader! Sweet! - Ward Seward
FriendFeed has become primary to me but I still read plenty of feeds as well. Can't imagine putting tech blogs or whatever in my FF stream. - Akiva Moskovitz
I still use google reader as I find it looks a lot better when reading at work - Ryan via Alert Thingy
I'm still reading GR, too, but skim it ever most quickly. - Mike Reynolds
