"No, but acting as though they are makes for a more dramatic (and higher scoring) blog post :) FriendFeed is about simple sharing and discussions. bbgm gives a great example in another comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... During the live show that lead up to this blog post, there was a very active realtime discussion on FriendFeed about the show (and MA's Twitter/FriendFeed claim): http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi...... Regardless of what people think of FriendFeed and these spontaneous, lightweight conversations, it's pretty clearly different from Twitter." - Paul Buchheit

FF is becoming like a bunch of disjointed chat rooms on steroids if more debates like today's about beta.ff continue. - William Mougayar

Not really I think. People will adapt and use it in their own way. I found out FF is kind of advanced IM conference when you focus on and join 1 single conversation. - Ninh Nguyen

Looks to me like a mash of nntp newsgroups, gmail conversations, IM and Twitter. I'm not sure yet whether I should just add it to my arsenal of tools or use it to replace some, hopefully making it easier to discuss and debate. It seems that there is a new tool for connecting people coming out faster than users' ability to master them. Eventually we'll end up with one app that does it all (just a wild conjecture), and I had more to say but I've just run into the post limit of 512 chars :-) - Rob Simpson

You can use it to pretty much replace Basecamp and much of our email - and it takes those up a notch on effectiveness because of real-time nature. Disrupting enough? That's just getting us started. - Nick in Manila

@Nick, true true. Just discussing that this morning in the studio. Isn't FF the start of OpenMail? - zeroinfluencer