Posted via web from scobleizer's posterous - Robert Scoble from Posterous

Nice post, btw. I think the only reason why I use FF now is when Twitter may be down (which, seems, doesn't happen very often...but appears to be down now for me). For now, I'll glance at FF but rarely use it as a primary way to track threads of conversation. - Chris Judson

I'm using Friendfeed more now than I ever have. I think in part because of the community problems at Flick due to the censorship. I've largely abandoned Flickr for community and we've (at least temporarily) moved a group of people over here to Friendfeed in DMU. Friendfeed has been censorship free and largely unmoderated in contrast to other communities on the web. Rather than tell you what you can and can't say and nuke customer accounts, they give you tools (like blocking) to better manage your experience without relying on a team of censors. I think it's going to be around for a long time as well. I don't see the site as storage intensive and especially as bandwidth and storage get cheaper and cheaper it's simply not very expensive (in the facebook world of money) to keep it running. It would be nice to see staff come out and say more things along those lines though. - Thomas Hawk

Robert: I confess, I too have found myself moving away from FF and spending more time on Twitter. I agree with some of your points but for not so geeky reasons. If you're building brand you want to be where the people are, well if you're doing anything really. In order to have success we have to be where everyone is, unless the place you are is so cool and has such a huge upside you have to be there. Being an early adopter has it's down side too and this is one of them, FF getting sold was a sad day for me personally, I just new it was going to whither away. I'm still here but not even close to the time I was spending before. - Owen Greaves

Friendfeed is a social aggregation service for me more than anything else. I use it solely for posting other message to Twitter. The problem is that while it is great for that, its main focus is being the client you use to interact with social media, not just a background wiring. Until they start progressing with things like search capabilities, I don't believe it will really turn into the 'client' you use to work with social media. - Tyler (Chacha)

I agree with Tyler. Friendfeed has some unbeatable (at the moment) social aggregation features. I also find some of the conversations tend to be more in depth and less fleeting than Twitter. However, there is a lot of competition out there that continues to drive innovation and Facebook will need to continue to invest in Friendfeed or it will lose its share of the social market. - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

I have no expectation that Facebook will make any further investment in FriendFeed. Bret and Paul should come clean about this. Not doing so is just being evil and a sign that they have sold out the FriendFeed community. They have probably drank too much of the Facebook Kool-Aid though to venture back from the dark side. - scott anderson

Excellent read, timely as that other commenter said, especially since my last 12 logins (~2 months) included something about its changing appearance to the users. A vision I wasn't sharing but is beginning to be understood well. A educational documentary on the situation would be perfectly suited as its themes and definitions are all in the 'net entity's peripheral processing and explaining it would mean assimilating even more data to assess the influence the itself generated piece of mindshare has at the same time this goes. Good job Robert. Liked Second Life a lot, but uninstalled it the second day. Everything is in timing and lows means highs, but as long as the foundation is present, then anyone can argue but the sole fact it's open source presents us on how we can't too much worry. I just want the servers to stay, at least, to resume, for the unknown reasons we stay, for the greater good. <0,. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Doh! 911 characters hehe, that 'comment', I suppose, would've not happened if FF wasn't. Not with FB, nor Twitter. Nothing presents us with this like this. That's all. Maybe a small-timer commercially, but for the current user it's not the point. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

happy - michael sean wright

friendfeed's embedable realtime feed rooms are amazing - they're so easy to drop into blog pages and add content to instantly via a bookmarklet. the friendfeed tech is just so powerful and simple that i'd hate to lose it, especially since i don't think anyone is near it in functionality. maybe facebook embedded content will get more powerful, but until then... i really hope it sticks around - Kevin

Kevin: FriendFeed isn't going anywhere. I don't know why people think I'm saying that the technology will disappear. I doubt it will for years and only after Facebook matches its feature set and provides an upgrade path. But what I am saying is we won't see many more features here. - Robert Scoble

Robert: FriendFeed has for all intensive reasons all but disappeared really, 30% drop in usage, virtually no communication from the new owner what they may or may not do with the technology, or when they will integrate the real-time / search I should say. - Owen Greaves

I started to comment and ended up writing a Blog post.. Friendfeed please don't go away http://new2me.posterous.com/friendf... (http://ff.im/a57K2) - Chris Myles

Robert, it's occurred to me on a number of occasions to put together a timeline showing when you were pushing Twitter at the expense of FriendFeed, and when you were pushing FriendFeed at the expense of Twitter, and how often it has flip-flopped completely. But it's not worth the effort to wade through 18 months of noise. You generate interesting conversations sometimes, but I've stopped listening to recommendations because the messages are too inconsistent and apply mainly to professional-2.0-ers, not users. In reality, we all know there are different tools for different purposes and each of us will use what's best for us, regardless of the hype. For the foreseeable future, many see FriendFeed as it exists today as a solid community way ahead of the pack in features. Twitter and Facebook are slow to innovate and have structural differences that will make it difficult to close the gap with FriendFeed. If the community dissipates or the tech is abandoned, there will be a huge hole, there is no obvious alternative place to do what we do here. - LogEx