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Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, FriendFeed Talk, The Facebook Experience, Social Media, Social Media Club, Social Media Enthusiasts, Appetite, TheNextWeb Forum
So what are your thoughts on #Facebook's acquisition of #FriendFeed? Do you think it's a good thing, bad thing? What do you think Facebook will bring to FriendFeed, and vice versa? What changes do you see happening to FriendFeed? Will FF be integrated into FF?
Sean Oliver, Marvin, Jemm and 35 other people liked this
I hope it's a good thing, but I'm pretty sure it will turn out to be a bad, bad thing.
- Morgaine LeFaye
bad thing. I have a feeling FF will slowly disappear. Facebook will get marginally better.
- Dusty Edenfield
Bad.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
what I have to say? I just hope that nothing will change for the users and that FF continue to improve our experience
- Roberto
Ask me again in 6 months--if you still can.
- Steve Lowe
It will be a great thing. With more people the FriendFeed experience will explode
- Marcus
I share Roberto's opinion...
- Chiara
Facebook was looking to implement more of a public twitter-style thing, but a lot of users didn't like that it seemed to be making private conversations more public. If they could keep them separate in some ways, this could solve that. This could be the public facing side of Facebook. I think its a good thing.
- Ryan Massie
Not sure how my friends on Facebook will appreciate all the added stuff in my stream if they decide to integrate like that. I wouldn't mind as long as the core friendfeed functionality is there. Along with the search, filters and group features. We'll see, though
- Fox
FriendBook? Facefeed? What will this new marriage be called?
- Manu Ullas
Well, it can only help FB. I don't know what is going to happen to FF. Guess that is what is worrisome. I liked this place.
- Yolanda
It would be great if FB promote FF a lot as FF would get the millions and millions of users from FB. But surely FF will be integrated into FB at some point. I feel very sad atm. I hope I'm wrong.
- Kol Tregaskes
Not sure what comes out of it. Hopefully both services are kept separate as I use them for separate purposes.
- Oliver Bouchard
Yeah, I agree Oliver. I use them both for separate purposes too. Not sure all my friends on facebook would be interested on all my shared stuff on friendfeed.
- Dan Smith
Personally, I think it is the beginning of the end of FF from user perspective. From FF team perspective it is the end of the beginning.
- Dilip Dand
Bad, bad, bad news.
- Louise Bolotin
thumbs down .. I would have had it the other way around :)
- Peter Theill
The only good news is that we'll see the end of "Show X new posts" in facebook soon when they adopt friendfeeds real-time feed
- Oliver Bouchard
from IM
I agree with Oliver Bouchard. That's something that Facebook has been lacking for quite a while. And I hate having to reload the whole pig of a Facebook page.
- Manu Ullas
I'm happy for the FriendFeed team, it's great news for them but I can't help think that we can't have the two sites running side by side for too long.
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't like the news, I preferred the two being separate; as far as I was concerned they were 2 separate networks for different groups of people.
- Arthur Guy
congrats to the FF team. They made a great service!
- Peter Theill
I just hope we can export the data before the site closes... that's going to be the biggest sadness... so much content that would be really disheartening to lose if the site closed completely
- Nathan Chase
congrats to FriendFeed! facebook tried to mimic the service with real-time profile updates but the FF technology is apparently too good and UI too smooth that they had to buy it! I'd imagine facebook integrates the technology without using the Friendfeed name so as not to corrupt the native FF community with n00bs
- Andy Sternberg
@cavlec Friendfeed doesn't have privacy problems, because it doesn't have privacy. But it will be a challenge for fb/ff to merge their streams without making the ff stream too private and the fb stream too public.
- Oliver Bouchard
from IM
Oliver... FriendFed has privacy in some very important ways: (1) Private feeds (2) private rooms (3) most importantly... you don't have to cough up any personal information to have an account on FF.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm worried that FriendFeed will turn into a walled garden like Facebook. I'm also worried by Facebook's repeated attempts to take ownership of users' content. Plus they don't really have a reputation for responsiveness to user concerns.
- John (bird whisperer)
John I agree with you. The public outcry to the change in their ToS was what made them back off.
- Manu Ullas
Too early to have an opinion...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
logicalextremes: that's true. But friendfeed doesn't by far have as much private information as facebook.
- Oliver Bouchard
from IM
Not sure just yet, I think it will bring more users, but I love the tools that FF provides, not sure that FB will be able to integrate FF into FB interface and still provide access to all the great features that FF offers now?
- Brian
#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED
- sunipeyk
if FB bought FF is because they want to make money out of it. Therefore even if they keep it separate they will put ads on FF. But what I am most scared about is the proliferation of stupid applications and silly games with the only puprose of doing aggressive marketing.
- gibilix
I think it's a bad idea. Twitter is full of automatic spam and Facebook is full or redundant apps. We need an independent platform somewhere to hide from the clamor of social circuses
- Houseofmax
Not a good thing for FriendFeed.
- Bryan R. Adams
:(
- edythe
from iPhone
bir yastıkta kocasınlar
- Şafak Otur
As far as technology, I think they need it mainly for their Social-TV initiative to work, besides the obvious other services they offer. Most people are unaware that they have been continually upgrading their interactive/socialTV service over the last six months. They have already had two pay-per-view events which sold out at $66 a ticket. Facebook kept $22 and the balance went to...
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- Michael Fidler
I'm not very happy about it, but as long as Facebook leave it alone I'll be fine. Where else do we go?
- Simon Tracey
Eh things like this mostly bad.
- MR A
Wish I knew what they were up to. What I wouldn't do to be a fly on the wall in that room!
- Toyota of Bellevue
Don't really know what to think. I use FF and FB for completely different things, so I don't want FF to go away. On the other hand, if FF disappears I'll have a bit more free time until I discover the next cool site.
- Elizabeth
Elizabeth, well said! That's how I feel too.
- Michael Fidler
RIP FriendFeed! http://bit.ly/fhOux
- Ali
Hello, I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC. Which one crashed?
Tehane Wurdeman, Robert Freeze, τorƍue and 47 other people liked this
Twice in one week? This time, I can't blame PhotoShop.
- Louis Gray
from email
I have both too, but I must say that the Mac is much more reliable for me.
- Vadim Lavrusik
bad ram?
- Paul Stamatiou
Paul, not sure yet. I would say this _never_ happens, but it happened on Saturday too.
- Louis Gray
just move over already louis - fyi - matthew is a pc
- Allen Stern
Obviously I blame this. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jim Turner
Prett much any time any of my macs have KP'd it's been either hardware connected to it or hardware internally not sitting or connecting right
- Robert DeBord
from iPhone
But at least it's not going to get a bootkit, http://bit.ly/OgUIH, thanks to EFI.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Both of those things are laptops and both are PCs. The large heatsink/heat generator on the right that is running OS X and is called a MacBook by the company that designed it (they didn't build it) and sold it is the one that crashed.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Kernel panics are usually hardware related. 90% of the time I've found its something plugged into it.
- Adam Turetzky
If you have an Old Macbook that is bound to happen at least 4-8 times.
- Matt Ruiz
+1 Adam (for kernel panics mostly being hardware related)
- Paul Stamatiou
Well, if it were due to an "attached" product, I have the headphones, power, and a USB cable that is connected to nothing. The last time, I likely had power and maybe a USB cable to iPhone. So no big gotchas. :)
- Louis Gray
When kernel panics start on the Mac, I learned to suspect bad hardware. RAM, hard disk, etc.
- Hiro Asari
No recent memory changes? Probably wouldn't hurt to check that the memory is seated properly regardless.
- Robert DeBord
from iPhone
No memory changes. No physical changes to the Mac since it was crushed and then reconfigged by Apple a year-plus ago. But I can check.
- Louis Gray
+100 Alex. I never tire of hearing you say that. :-)
- Ordinarybug Heather
If I didn't want Alex to mock me, I wouldn't have posted this.
- Louis Gray
Usually either bad ram or a loose connection on the motherboard. Keep track of not only what software you were using on the computer, but also whether it was on your lap, desktop, etc. Sometimes you can induce it by flexing the frame, but don't try that too aggressively.
- Kevin Fox
I would say "no extra charge" for the one that's crashing, but...
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
It's odd for ANY machine nowadays to crash out of the blue with nothing connected to it unless there's a hardware problem with the machine itself. That's worrisome indeed. Does OS X have error codes/performance reports like Windows does? On Vista, for example, you can use the Reliability and Performance Monitor to track down the source of system hiccups ...
- LANjackal
It's obvious what happened here - you let your pc get too close and spread some of its nasty pc germs to your Mac.
- Phil Maxwell
I had SynServ run a muck on me this past week chewing up 90% CPU and almost all ram making the mac un usable... Dunno the cause. Just deletered the lib/dir and let it recreate itself. Not too long ago u had to replace the hdd an not the SuperDrive is on the fritz. So yes, I'd say it indeed does happen.
- JR
from iPhone
I had this happen when I jammed my headphone plug into the express card slot. Oops. Must have shorted something out.
- Rick Cogley
Are you sure you weren't licking the other end of the USB cable that was attached to "nothing"?
- George S.
Both crashed. They aren't Linux boxes. (Okay.. gotta go now ;-)))
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The PC's screen is actually a trojan that looks normal, but covers up a BSOD :-)
- Rick Cogley
Alex Scoble made my day.
- niccolò vecchia
As Alex so eloquently pointed out, cheap commodity hardware is just cheap commodity hardware. OS X is nice compared to Windows IMO. Linux is awesome, and I love to compile my own goodies (then I know it's done right) But they all will crash. I'm off to install windows and gentoo on my mac. And OS X on my toshiba :) Now which one will crash?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Mac vs PC vs Linux http://www.youtube.com/watch... Mac vs. PC http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
only hardware failures i've had since 1992 have been cooling fans (3) and hard drives (5). haven't had an OS crash since 1999 (sheer luck). i must be doing something right, like rolling my own machines and knowing a bit about what i'm doing. keeping dust and heat build-up down also helps.
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
Not mine. I have Linux.
- Steven Perez
mac is awesome
- Logan Lindquist
time capsule!
- Mehmet Ergene
not surpised... even though i have never used a mac... i have always found vista to be reliable and stable!
- Bryce Campbell
+1
- LANjackal
I'd return it and get a $5-700 Acer ..... You can can even use it when it's hot outside ...
- Charlie Anzman
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