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OK, we have a Twitter fight! @codemonkeyism says friendfeed doesn't make any sense. So, come here and let's make sense of the nonsense:

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First thing to realize is this is a live chat. - Robert Scoble

And it's threaded. - Robert Scoble

And the entire chat has a permalink. It's http://ff.im/3EcXi - Robert Scoble

And in this chat you can click "like" to send it to all your friends, or just keep it for yourself for later. You can see all your likes by visiting your friendfeed home page and clicking on "likes." - Robert Scoble

Robert can get an e-mail every time I reply to one of his posts - Jesse Stay

Robert, i've tried so many times to give it a shot. I think friendfeed works best if you're Robert Scoble. otherwise, lots of other folks have followers who don't engage. all the above stuff is great if people engage. but my audience isn't ultra super cutting edge geeky. mostly business folks where Facebook and Twitter is their limit. So any suggestions on how to get folks who aren't "early adopter" minded to engage? - Christine Lu

Robert can reply to that e-mail and have it appear threaded under the post - Jesse Stay

The feed / chat feature is amazing. no need to # anything - Jeff

Jesse: shhh, we wouldn't want to see codemonkeyism get that there's some advanced features here that take some poking around to get. Wait until he sees the search engine here and how much more useful it is than Twitter's (and that's when Twitter's is working). - Robert Scoble

It works for little fish like me too - David Damore

My only beef with friend feed is I don't like the iphone client, other than that, its better. - Luke Kilpatrick

Robert, don't tell him about direct messaging either ;) - Jesse Stay

We can't let @codemonkeyism know that you can put your friends in lists, so you can manage your users much better. - Robert Scoble

The search is amazing. Looking for a date, time and place someone tweeted about... it is faster to look on F2 if their content is aggregated here. - David Damore

And there is also saved searches and groups - Brent - Loving Life

Luke: why do you need a client? The page works great on my iPhone and they have both a regular version and an iPhone version. But there are clients coming. - Robert Scoble

The one thing about this site: Hate the logo, absolutely hate it. Site's alright but it's all about being where the people you want to follow/know are at. - Chris

I think friendfeed is great for conversations while twitter is awesome for status updates. Both are awesome in their own right. - sushaantu

Brent: don't tell him about private groups. Wired online and Venture Beat do their editorial meetings in private groups here. - Robert Scoble

How long until this has 100 comments? Minutes? - David Damore

sushaantu: exactly. - Robert Scoble

I'm liking FF more and more. Ugly as it be. - Lindy Asimus

David: 150 seconds. ;-) - Robert Scoble

Scoble has made it a side quest to convert every twitter follower of his into a Friend Feed member XD - Reid

Christine: I thought the same, but it's like twitter, you have to have that "aha" moment where you realizie some of the capabilities of a service..I had that about 15 minutes ago, I'm sold - John Bergoon

I wasn't going to mention the Private groups, at least not yet. - Brent - Loving Life

Reid: and it's working with a lot of people, but there are still some who say it's nonsense and I make fun of them. - Robert Scoble

Reid, Scoble never makes anything a side-quest unless it makes sense. Have you considered he may have a reason? - Jesse Stay

@Scobleizer: Thanks for the update and high degree of accuracy. :D - David Damore

FF is what FF is - I love it. - Brent - Loving Life

I've been playing with FF a little but it hasn't clicked yet. - Jesse P. Luna

live updating is the bomb! - Truong Nguyen

Wait until he figures out that search here can be constrained to just specific lists of people you've picked. Wouldn't it be more useful to search for, say, "quilting" among just your quilting friends? - Robert Scoble

(Hey, it worked on me -_- In fact, I'm not entirely sure I had heard of it before Scoble) - Reid

how do private groups work? - dave_blogworld

dave: you can start a group and you can make it private. - Robert Scoble

I'm still waiting for it to click... despite having believed you that you love it since we were still back in closed-beta. For me, it's still a "oh, I'd better go check over on FF for that handful of people who love it so much" - Lucretia Pruitt

Christine I see what you mean about having your followers on ff, but as a follower of Robert and other cool people I get to have a conversation with them here that I would not get to have otherwise - Jeff

Make sure not to tell them about audio and video in line. - Louis Gray

FriendFeed has become my real-time newspaper. I pick it up as I please, read what seems interesting, chat real-time about the news, and put it down as I please. - Jesse Stay

I could tell you Dave but then, well you know ... - Brent - Loving Life

dave: then only people who you invite in can see it. For instance, I have a private group at http://www.friendfeed.com/2010web can you see it? If you can, I invited you in. - Robert Scoble

I love FF but why don't they put the latest activity first and not at the end. As I'm typing I keep getting put beneath the fold... - Donny Mack

Robert: I just liked the way twitterfon works on the iphone, primary reason I use twitter more than friendfeed is it doesn't work as well on mobile. They make a client that can twitpic, linkshorten with bit.ly and I will most likely not use twitter anymore. - Luke Kilpatrick

Promise not to show them how you can do multiple photos in one post. - Louis Gray

Will @codemonkeyism actually read this thread? - Amit Nangare

Louis: ssssshhhhh, next thing you'll tell them you can do photos. Oh, drat you already did! - Robert Scoble

Amit: probably not. - Robert Scoble

Please promise not to show them how to hide noisy threads, people or sources. - Louis Gray

Whatever you do, don't tell them they can e-mail you at scobleizer@friendfeed.com - Jesse Stay

@Donny Mack Type faster ;) - David Damore

haha feed stops as all check http://www.friendfeed.com/2010web - John Bergoon

er, scobleizer@friendfeed.com - Jesse Stay

Jesse: even I didn't know THAT! - Robert Scoble

Or the way you can imbed videos. - Brent - Loving Life

At least it's here for good reference and the friendfeeders of the future =] - Reid

I love the functionality of FriendFeed, but I'll probably never really use it. I agree with Chris that it's about being where your friends are at. Twitter is sufficient for most of them, so that's where I'll be. - Jamie

interesting! the private group feature is really important for businesses - dave_blogworld

@Daavid Damore thanks :) - Donny Mack

And it works awesome with Chrome - Brent - Loving Life

Robert, it goes straight to your DM box. You can also post anything to share@friendfeed.com to go to your public stream. - Jesse Stay

(is on chrome) - Reid

Jamie: which is why I talk about friendfeed all the time. As soon as all my friends are here, my job will be done. So far I have 40,000 here. - Robert Scoble

Very pleased - Reid

Thanks Robert, I actually found out a lot more features due to this thread... go FF - Amit Nangare

haha, as did I - Reid

LOL. Slowly you will win us over. If so, then kudos. :) - Jamie

Wait until he figures out you can search just YouTube videos here (or just Tweets or Tweets AND YouTube videos). - Robert Scoble

Yes indeed go FF - Brent - Loving Life

Don't tell anybody about the search engine that actually can go back months and months and sort by likes or people, unlike the very broken Twitter search. - Louis Gray

I have no need for TwitPic with FriendFeed - Jesse Stay

Or for Ferrari or Porsche - Brent - Loving Life

Wait until he figures out that he can hide all Tweets except for those that have a comment or a like. That's how I hide his noise! - Robert Scoble

Luke, Robert. There's a developer with a mobile client in the works. Try it here: http://dev.ctor.org/f2p/ - Micah Wittman

Don't tell them that there is no fail whale. - Louis Gray

And you can still tie into Twitter if you must - Brent - Loving Life

Is this conversation threaded? If so, how can I tell which replies belong to which post? - Jim Lecter

Louis: I can actually find Chinese Earthquake Tweets here (you can't find them on Search.Twitter.com because that engine didn't index that long ago). - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer: Perhaps it is time for SOMEONE to watch your tutorial videos. - David Damore

If this were a conversation in Twitter, then I could link to an individual comment/status. Can you not do that in here? - Jamie

Blasphemy Louis! What you say is not possible? (really?) - Reid

Robert I thought you would be in line to get a Palm Pre tonight - Jeff

Jim: only a single thread. These all belong to the top level items. - Robert Scoble

Don't tell him the API is much more scalable than Twitter's - Jesse Stay

Good thing its not in real time - Brent - Loving Life

Jeff: unfortunately I'm in Virginia and need to get to the airport in an hour or so. - Robert Scoble

(is the search on here that sexy?) - Reid

Very sexy - Brent - Loving Life

Reid: yes, you want a demonstration of some of the power of friendfeed search? - Robert Scoble

What airport are you at @Scobleizer? - David Damore

I like sexy - Reid

John Bergoon, welcome aboard :) - Micah Wittman

A sexy demonstration? - Reid

Imust have 30 saved searches just waiting for me - Brent - Loving Life

David: I'll be at Dulles at 5:30 a.m. (it's 2:53 a.m. right now). - Robert Scoble

Robert: I look forward to your review - Jeff

IAD: Know it well - David Damore

Was in Silicon Valley East for a few years - David Damore

Here's a sexy demonstration. Only two items on friendfeed have had the words "sexy demonstration" used in them: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Damn Robert hell of a schedule - Brent - Loving Life

anyone mention inline Audio like Podcasts - Gary Gannon

Micah: Thanks, I'm sitting here thinking how I can start getting my friends to move over..there always giving me a hard time for jumping to the "next" thing :) - John Bergoon

Very sexy indeed XD - Reid

Gary thats a secret - Brent - Loving Life

damn :-) - Gary Gannon

http://friendfeed.com/search... now you'll only see items that say "sexy demonstration" that were started by me. - Robert Scoble

Now we can't just have any body coming over her to FF they have to pass a test first - Brent - Loving Life

@Sanat - Trending topics are personalized to you rather than the whole world - try best of the day http://friendfeed.com/summary... - Atul Arora

Its a very complicated test - Brent - Loving Life

If you only use twitter maybe FF does not have a lot of value, but if you blog, use 12sec, youtube, vimeo, basically anything social media it is awesome to have all your stuff in 1 place. - Jeff

And it is late at night in most places - David Damore

I like Friendfeed because I can take one thread of conversation and share it with another group of friends to start another conversation. http://ff.im/3EdWm - John Serra

It involves adding the values of one plus one - Brent - Loving Life

Well over 100 comments already - David Damore

John Serra: True that's a huge feature - John Bergoon

Sanat: friendfeed can display stuff like trending topics. We call it "best of day" here. But even better, you can build your own customized trending topics. I can do trending topics by lists of people (by displaying only things that have gotten lots of likes). Plus our trends HAVE NO SPAM. Twitter's search engine is full of spam. - Robert Scoble

XD in what? 10 minutes? (Very pro randomness going on here at FF) - Reid

John Bergoon, let them know that everybody jumps, and that you just don't like looking in the rear view mirror :) - Micah Wittman

Try that with Twitter (100 Comments) - Brent - Loving Life

Sanat - you can also try ffholic.com but that is not run by FriendFeed folks but by a third party and it gives trending topics across friendfeed and lots of other interesting stats. - Atul Arora

F2 is also good if friends post cool content on those other sites... you visit one place to see all their content aggregated to one place - David Damore

And you can Block fools out of your life here as well - Brent - Loving Life

Which is something else we shouldn't tell that guy. Here we have decentralized moderation. For instance, if a spammer shows up here I can delete the comment. Then I can report him as a spammer. Then I can block him which removes him EVERYWHERE (on Twitter blocking doesn't remove that person from search). - Robert Scoble

Ah yes, the all powerful BLOCK function - David Damore

And I can't tell you about the other goodies that FF has to offer - Brent - Loving Life

I think it was Leo Laporte's definition of Twitter as the online Dial Tone. IMO FriendFeed is far from that, it's broadband conversation set with rich content, way more powerful. - Majento

In 20 minutes or so everyone in here will be gone and if you missed the interaction, then adding another comment doesn't seem to have much value because who is going to see it (unless you come back in and look at this thread). Whereas with Twitter, commenting later is ok, is just as visible, and is still relevant. Am I off base? - Jamie

Twitter is a CB Radio. FriendFeed is color television with satellite. - Louis Gray

Problem is you need another account. Too many plugs in the socket. Facebook and twitter cover 99 of ave non geek people - The Dude Abides

And we don't have groups of real people meeting each other either - Brent - Loving Life

Jamie: if you commented on this thread it will be at the top of "My discussions" if you come back later. - Robert Scoble

Thats right Loius - Brent - Loving Life

Sanat Gersappa, I've found the sharing/re-sharing of the main group I'm subscribed to gives me the pulse of what's going sufficiently. In twitter-style trending topics serve a purpose, but they aren't tuned to my interest, whereas on FF they effectively are. - Micah Wittman

and this thread will be around like forever almost - Brent - Loving Life

Louis I was thinking more of FriendFeed is a cell phone, and twitter is a land line - John Bergoon

If this were actually a fight, Twitter would have had no friends to pick him back up after the beating... - Reid

Shh, you can click on the time stamp here and it'll open up a separate window of just this thread. Click THAT time stamp again and it'll open up a smaller window which is perfect to participate in these real time sessions. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Interesting, thanks. - Jamie

You can also store links for reading on FF just like a bookmarking service. - Amit Nangare

Robert how many student from the leadership class are now on friendfeed? - Jeff

And no one here is interested in Photography or cooking - Brent - Loving Life

Robert: wow...timestamp click.....Epic win - John Bergoon

Brent: it will be around forever. Oh, shhhh, another thing, friendfeed trends higher in Google due to all the additional metadata that we're putting in each item here. Oh, and the founders were superstars at Google, so they know a thing or two about search. - Robert Scoble

i was tabbing around like crazy - John Bergoon

Jeff: I don't know. I hope a few, especially after they saw the demonstration Thursday. - Robert Scoble

it's crazzy - kang

And there is some what amazing customer service as well - Brent - Loving Life

What do you have to do to get conversations to "cascade" out to other parts of FF? On Twitter there is the retweet. How does that work here? - Jesse P. Luna

OMG I didn't know that one.. Thanks Robert for the second click on the timestamp.. - John Serra

What is the "time stamp"? - David Damore

But that also is a secret - Brent - Loving Life

This is starting to sound like, dare I say it, a "platform" Soon there will be Lynda titles about FriendFeed tutorials - Stephen Pickering

Thanks Robert, this has been educational and quite entertaining =] ( @Sanat: same here ) - Bed time, night all =] - Reid

You do a like its like a retweet - Brent - Loving Life

Heheh http://twitter.com/codemon... isn't getting a clue. Please Tweet that he's being a jerk by not coming over here and sticking up for Twitter. - Robert Scoble

But it very complicated process to like some thing - Brent - Loving Life

I think FF users are getting caught up craving comments like followers on twitter...its like a game and if they dont get comments they get discouraged...the issue is probably that your thread doesnt engage very well...I learned that this week when I posted this http://friendfeed.com/garygan... - Gary Gannon

like is easier than twitter and useful - kang

David: underneath the headline that started this thread is a date stamp. - Robert Scoble

Book: Friendfeed For Dummies [Fall 2009] ;) - David Damore

How do you report Spammers here? - Stephen Pickering

David: right now it says "18 minutes ago" (click on it and you'll see a new window pop up in your browser). - Robert Scoble

I've tried FF, really I've tried, but I keep giving up and sticking with Twitter. I'll let this thread give me guidance for one more try. - Don McAllister

But once you have your name you can't chnage it much - Brent - Loving Life

hey @codekomkeyism it makes a lot of sense! What do you say! - Ahmet Alp Balkan

David: Right now it's not very obvious that its a link - Amit Nangare

@Scobleizer: Ahhhhhhhh Thank you - David Damore

Report friendfeed spam: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Robert Scoble

and gee no damn 140 character limit on your posts, you can actually say some thing if you want - Brent - Loving Life

may be we should ask FF developers to skin it as a link - Amit Nangare

Don, all other things aside, just look how smoothly it works. On twitter I always wait for pages to load, for tweets to load - Stephen Pickering

Ah, thanks - Stephen Pickering

LIve updating is pretty slick! - Don McAllister

You dare not bother FF developers, lest they respond to your needs and help you out - Brent - Loving Life

Don , you think so- - Brent - Loving Life

And don't tell anyone that some power users enjoy some customizations provided by a passionate ff user script community http://img.skitch.com/2009060... - Micah Wittman

Brent: ssshhhh, that's another secret. Friendfeed's founders actually participate here and answer questions. Twitter's founders? Yeah, right. - Robert Scoble

sorry Robert - Brent - Loving Life

seems like they are running out of steam - Brent - Loving Life

That was fun - Brent - Loving Life

Brent: Twitter? No way. Here in Virginia I've heard about Twitter on all the mainstream media I've turned on. - Robert Scoble

I meant on this stream - Brent - Loving Life

good to hear that Wired and Venturebeat are using the private room function - another small addition to the credibility of FriendFeed... - Jeroen De Miranda

Ok, this has been very helpful in learning some of the values of Friendfeed. Definitely has some things Twitter doesn't. But I think the main thing I have learned is that I don't have time for FriendFeed. :) I can keep up with friends much quicker on Twitter - not as rich of information, but that doesn't matter because on Twitter they are (ideally) being more selective in what they post (since they're not posting every 30 seconds like in here). Friendfeed is awesome, but just too much (for me). Just my thoughts. - Jamie

Can you imagine the power of this thing if 200 million people were on it! - Stephen Pickering

Brent: yeah, after 190 comments it's hard to say anything else. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Still think you need a manual to figure FriendFeed out. I'm not slamming the service. I get that it has a lot to offer ...if you're an early adopting Scoble loving geek (which I tend to be). So again, friendfeed is great for folks who want to talk to Robert Scoble. That's not a sustainable business model unless someone can tell me how it's going to be adopted by non-early adopters the way Twitter has. Some of us use tech as a tool to talk about other things that aren't tech related. Like me. China. Business. Social media being adopted by non-tech sectors. et al. - Christine Lu

Did we just set a new record or sumpin? - Brent - Loving Life

and I have been back here maybe a month and your point is? - Brent - Loving Life

Christine: we had the exact same conversations about Twitter two years ago. Remember, Twitter is two years older than friendfeed is. I got to 40,000 followers here MUCH faster than I did on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Christine, plus, its DEFINITELY not more confusing than Facebook - Stephen Pickering

I have over 200 Followers in less than a month - Brent - Loving Life

Brent: not even close. Here are all the threads with more than 1,000 comments: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Face book - :P - Brent - Loving Life

Oh thats right, but I was going to keep that a secret - Brent - Loving Life

Christine: Stephen is right. The argument that Twitter is getting adoption because it's simple is bullshit. Twitter only has 30 million people. Facebook, which is far more complex than either friendfeed or Twitter, has 225 million on it. - Robert Scoble

Christine, finding posts on China that have at least 1 Like: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Micah Wittman

Christine Lu There are plenty of conversations that Robert Scoble does not even hear about.. Not even in English... - John Serra

Christine: I see what your saying, Social media in general is a young thing. Its gonna take a while for any of it to really catch on mainstream. I know alot of people who still think that twitter is lame...facebook is what 4 years old now and it's just starting to got really mainstream...but it's going to end up like myspace I think - John Bergoon

Yeah there is such a learning curve at FF - NOT - Brent - Loving Life

John: that's absolutely true. There's more than a hundred thousand people on friendfeed that don't speak English. - Robert Scoble

Christine, or on China with a conversation (2 or more comments): http://friendfeed.com/search... - Micah Wittman

It's like advertising, Olgivy had a famous saying, the first time you see an add you say, "What is this crap!!?" The ninth time you see the add your writing out a check for the product - Stephen Pickering

And no one helps one another here at all - Brent - Loving Life

Robert -- didn't say people were on Twitter b/c it was simple. heck, most China business and non-tech folks in my areas are still not on Twitter. LOL. Just sayin' Friendfeed isn't for everyone yet. Otherwise i wouldn't feel like i'm talking to myself when i post something on my FF account. LOL. - Christine Lu

Well, They both make sense to me. Here's why! Twitter is nice if you want to tell your followers or friends what's on your mind, while FriendFeed is nice for conversations and there is no word limit. While FriendFeed is more for RSS (at times.) - Patrick from twhirl

Brent: yeah, really, that reminds me of one of my favorite groups here, where people are teaching themselves to do saved searches (aka filters): http://friendfeed.com/ffss - Robert Scoble

Well there is a limit on the length of a post , but then, oh my god, you start anther comment - Brent - Loving Life

Christine: I hope friendfeed isn't for everyone. If it were we'd see lame people, assholes, spammers, and other unfriendly types here. It's fine with me if those types stay on Twitter. Twitter isn't going away. Twitter isn't killing Facebook. Friendfeed won't kill Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Christine, when I first joined Twitter I felt like I was talking to myself. During one iteration I actually used it as a a to do list of sorts. Just SMS things into it that I needed to do@ - Stephen Pickering

Thanks for the session, folks. Very informative. - Jamie

Stephen: some day I'm going to try to make a list of all the people who told me that Twitter was the lamest thing they ever saw (in the early days that happened multiple times a day). - Robert Scoble

There is a large percentage of FF topics that start at twitter - Brent - Loving Life

Christine, "Social Media" in non-tech places (classroom, business, organization): http://friendfeed.com/search... - Micah Wittman

stephen: I did the same thing haha twitter = to do list...Twitter as well as FF, I believe, is really only as good as the people you follow and follow you...is that correct? - John Bergoon

I still talk to myself on Twitter. I guess i'll start on FF and give it another try. It's like LinkedIn for me. I keep going back and trying it and losing interest within a day. I'm going to Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai on geeks on a plane and asking folks in each city if they use FriendFeed. :D Wonder what the answer will be. hmm... - Christine Lu

And you notice if you make a mistake posting your stuck, you can't edit at all or delete a post - Brent - Loving Life

Christine, it all depends on who is in your circle - Brent - Loving Life

Brent: that's a good point. On friendfeed you can edit your tweets, even, to make them more accurate (or, even, to take advantage of the fact that you have more than 140 characters here). - Robert Scoble

I've used FF like 5 times now, twice to join in on epic threads like this one, and the other times clicking around trying to figure out what to do. This thread is helping on the "what" part, just got to invest the time to figure the "how". - Jesse P. Luna

Robert, that's so true. I was only there in the early days because I was listening to Leo's show and your blog, but I remember not thinking much of it for that first year - Stephen Pickering

@Brent, I think you can if you use the website there is a edit button after you post. - Patrick from twhirl

Oh, and I love how when Tweets come in here that @scobleizer turns into a link and how when I use a URL shortener the original URL gets displayed here and if it points to a video or photo that is part of the Tweet too. - Robert Scoble

Robert: but the Power Twitter greasemonkey script does all that :P - John Bergoon

Brent, there are limits to comment length, etc, but they are probably higher than you think (than most people realize): Kol did some great geeky research here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

BTW Christine, folks may not respond to you on Twitter every single time but we listen. Felt as if I was in Hawaii all week. :) - Jesse P. Luna

Cool, Micah - Brent - Loving Life

Epic thread Robert, gotta run. - Jesse P. Luna

Well, this was fun, but gotta run too. Thanks Jesse! - Robert Scoble

Jesse Luna, stick with it, the richness in conversation and resources is big. - Micah Wittman

yeah I'm out it's 330 here...thanks Robert.. - John Bergoon

Good night folks.... or should i say Good morning.... :) - Amit Nangare

For Greasemonkey (Firefox) / Greasekit (Safari) inclined, and for the ff scripts (of mine) I alluded to: http://userscripts.org/users... - hope it helps someone :) - Micah Wittman

Micah: just installed your botom comment link button and already had your hover reveal installed....small interweb :) thanks - John Bergoon

Ah, always something new to discover. It makes the ff community a great place. Glad you like them, John. Thanks for letting me know =) - Micah Wittman

There is one major reason not to be on FF. It's an addictive time-waster. On the other hand, as an addictive time-waster it has more value than playing scrabble or poker on Facebook or reading a stream of mindless status messages on Twitter. - howard shippin

I have 16,000 followers on Twitter, yet find more valuable information and better conversations on FriendFeed, where far fewer people subscribe to my feed. I use FriendFeed far more than Twitter too. I LOVE FriendFeed - I LIKE Twitter. - Jim Connolly

Jim, you can RT twitter, but you can't Like twitter (on twitter) ;) - Micah Wittman

Micah: :) That was funny!! - Jim Connolly

The funniest stuff is just the speaking the truth. In a funny way =) - Micah Wittman

I love Robert (in an appreciative way). He has two sizable conversations going on at the same time! Amazing - Michael Fidler

The only way I could make sense of FF was when I found imaginary friends. By creating new feeds from RSS or other sources it makes FF much more powerful. Can't link to facebook friends though....I think it's a privacy thing correct? - Carey Lumeng

This thread is exactly why I don't like Friend Feed. I barely have time to keep up with Twitter -- I like the brevity Twitter enforces. Every time I come to Friend Feed I think of the old days of usenet and how much time it demanded if you wanted to keep up to date. - Pete Smith

For instance, I absolutely *did not* take the time to read this whole thread. - Pete Smith

Niether did I. But Freindfeed makes alotta sense....... - Roberto Bonini

I also don't really think FriendFeed makes sense haha - Hen Asraf

I would love it if Twitter users would at least sign up on FriendFeed and load their Twitter and Delicious accounts. They don't even have to use FF after that, but at least they've claimed their handles and it saves me from creating a bunch of FF imaginary friends. - Joel Zehring

@Joel I second that ... Having my twitter feed trickle into FF through an RSS and a few imaginary friends really sucks ... - Tom Horn

Do we really want Oprah in here though? - JonInteractive

no! LOL - Susan Beebe

Pete: you just found another advantage: friendfeed filters out lazy people who don't want to learn something new. That alone explains why the community here is so interesting. - Robert Scoble

aren't most people lazy though? which really means most people probably shouldn't be on friendfeed. which also implies arguing over its merits is a bit of a waste of time - if you like it, use it and enjoy, but why bother trying to "convert" everyone? - Jeremy Toeman

Biggest problem with friendfeed is that on the signup page there are no videos, no how-to's, nothing. At least not that I could find. - Greg DeVore

I just followed 258 comments. On Twitter that would be impossible. - Sgt Ret

The implication that if a person choses not to read 258 comments on the merits of FriendFeed it means they are lazy is ridiculous. Life is finite. Information is infinite. We all constantly have to select what we feel will enrich our lives, given the short time we're alive. - Pete Smith

Boy! This conversation sure has grown overnight! Like Sgt Ret said, this would be impossible to follow on Twitter. - Ange Recchia/angesbiz

Instead of wondering if friendfeed makes any sense, I'm wondering if friendfeed makes any noise. Plays any sounds, that is. - Chuck Baggett

This discussion has 264 comments, and 'auto-promote' itself. This is simply impossible to follow in Twitter. FriendFeed does make sense! Even if it's different from Twitter. - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I've had FF for about a year or more,haven't used it as much until recently,when I found I was getting followers, it is gre8 for aggregating all of your social networks together & sharing them on twitter in one stop/step.I don't get the commentary as much as I do on twitter,but it's still a gr8 resource,feel free to follow me &share comments,etc ☺(see bio to learn more abt me) - Patty from twhirl

Chuck: audio files such as podcasts are supported with embedded friendfeed player =) - Mike Chelen