I'm beginning to think that anyone who links a blog post on FF that speculates tablets could still be coming at an event that has been iPod-only for years deserves 20 lashings. On second offense, they're banned from FF for 48 hours. 3rd offense, 5 business days.
- David Chartier
“而 ff 不同, 它首先是一个聚合, 一个 lifestream” ------个人感觉,这就是这次ff改版存在风险的地方--ff似乎一下子失去了定位,它要变成什么?Twitter吗?No!ff是以一个lifestream平台出现的,信息是它的最重要的内容之一,而这些信息都是所加好友过滤给你的,是你选择的对你有价值的信息(没价值你大概也会退订或者hide)。现在FF似乎要变成Twitter了,或许它看出来manage the information of the world (这是google的目标)是个极其艰巨的任务,而把目标转向人似乎要容易些,其实这对于ff来说是个非常大的变化。
- K.D.
"Atebits software released Tweetie for Mac this week and Aulia Masna, executive editor of Macworld Indonesia, scored an interview with author Loren Brichter in between his sleeps. That is, if he slept at all. Given the popularity of Tweetie for the iPhone and the run up to the Mac version's release, it's a wonder the man gets any rest. In this interview, he shares some insight into how the app came to be and the thought process behind its (not so?) radical design."
- Edmund Tay
from Bookmarklet
David, for me it would mostly be about having things like the tabs, show best of in big iPhone style category links that are easier to tap. and then possibly mitigating the need to send pics via mail2ff, and just have it direct through the app and the iphone's camera roll
- Robert Seidman
oooh, just loaded twitterific up, nice eye candy.
- David Vasileff
I realize this is not nearly as exciting, but anyone know of a good FriendFeed application for BlackBerry?. . .
- DaveFriesen
as an aside, I can't help but wonder if the Facebook iPhone app will win back some of the digerati. Dave F, have you tried fftogo.com? it's not blackberry specific, but it is a mobile app.
- Robert Seidman
Robert, have tried fftogo. Nice, but spoiled by clean BB app's like Gmail, Viigo, etc.
- DaveFriesen
For FriendFeed iPhone app - how about some geo action (Brightkite)? Oh, and how about some grouping functionality (TweetDeck style)? Not too crazy, just some features that fit and exploit the iPhone's capabilities...
- Bryan Landers
Definitely agree with this, I am surprised there isn't one!!!
- Joe Dawson
I'd rather have a FriendFeed N95 app than an *P**ne thingy
- Ivan Pope
from twhirl
There's BuddyFeed but I don't like the interface and at times fails with a slow connection. Nambu has a nice interface and supports multiple social networks but its FF integration isn't complete.
- Rodfather
I don't love BuddyFeed, on the other hand, I seem to always be in it instead of on the ff.com/iphone, so that must mean something, too. Probably just convenient - it does boot up quick.
- felix
These are images from my friendfeed stats page that show that most of the people I'm following on friendfeed only interact with Tweets. Note how my usage is different. I like a lot more friendfeed items than a typical user. (My useage is the one that shows a bigger friendfeed slice).
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
I'm following 5,977 people and most of the heaviest participants on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
maybe because twitter is the most active service out there (i mean in terms of frequency of update)
- Ouriel Ohayon
how many of your users are in your rooms?
- Cem Dalgic
ouriel: oh, absolutely, but since I'm more active than most people and I'm clicking like on more things I find this difference interesting to study and understand.
- Robert Scoble
That is not surprising. Most of the friend feed users are coming from twitter.
- Naimul
cem: I'm not sure and I'm not sure you can look at that anyway. I'm following 206 rooms too, but the people I'm following I hand followed and not in rooms.
- Robert Scoble
Sharing at twitter means you're sharing with twitter + FF but sharing at FF will not give these much leverage for your message
- Sarath
Sharing Friendfeed means you're sharing with FF + Twitter. If you have it set up
- Tyler (Chacha)
I think the Tweet Icon is more appealing than the FF one
- Tyler (Chacha)
I think a lot of people still use friendfeed as source of content rather than a truly conversational medium like twitter. I know your experience is quite the opposite but I think there is a more pronounced or skewed "short tale" on friendfeed where fewer people are actually paying attention to the same degree as they are on twitter.
- Marcel LeBrun
I find myself using Twitter and FF for different purposes: Twitter for making connections and sharing links, FF for discussion.
- Walter Jessen
That is why FF needs to make it easy for me to import my twitter friends into one twitter list, then I can create groups from there. FF already has the framework to be the ultimate Twitter client (groups, discussions, etc), it would blow Tweetdeck out of the water and I could access it anywhere. I would use FF a lot more if it did this.
- Kelly Johns
Didn't we establish this a looooong time ago? This was a driving factor behind the twitter reply feature IIRC
- Bwana ☠
I also remember this being an argument for even joining friendfeed. "It's all tweets anyway"
- Bwana ☠
rather this reflects more the portion of use, not favourable inclination to it: tweets are cheep, it's harder to share content
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Glen: I'm not talking about you. Most people on friendfeed only engage with Tweets. The 6,000 people I'm following demonstrates that.
- Robert Scoble
Glen, that's not just one data point, it's the accumulation of 6,000 data points. I'll post mine as well to show how I may differ from Robert. Here's the data I have: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Louis Gray
That's interesting but I don't think it is a real reflection of activity ON FriendFeed, it's a reflection of what is IMPORTED into FriendFeed. Most people on FriendFeed have a Twitter account, so they're importing it... that doesn't mean that their tweets get conversation or participation in FriendFeed though, and may not really account for the majority of activity ON FriendFeed.
- Lindsay
I have my prefs set up to ignore tweets unless someone else has liked or commented on them, and as a consequence I'd guess about 10% of my feed view consists of tweets, if that much. And I know a lot of other people have it set up like I do.
- Lindsay
Many of us block tweets on FF (at least I do) -- so I think your stats may be an anomaly not the norm.
- Brian Sullivan
Lindsay: there's where you are wrong. This graph shows you what 6,000 of the most active participants on friendfeed are liking and commenting on (and compares it to my behavior of what I like and comment on). NOT what is imported into friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I believe you are incorrect. That graph shows what data they are bringing into FriendFeed. It says, "Top sites are calculated by looking at where your shared stuff has come from over the past 30 days" not what you have done with it.
- Louis Gray
I agree w/ Louis&Lindsay this graph only represents quantity of imported feeds, I myself hide all twitter input and only rarely check it when I click unhide. I never have bookmarked entries b/c through dual screens I just use the ff bookmarklet
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Louis: that is interesting. I thought it included usage too.
- Robert Scoble
Louis is right. Nevertheless, it seems that Twitter does produce a very good percentage of FFd input.
- Alexandros Georgiadis
I personally prefer FF. It is easier to import other content to FF and I just populate my Twitter stream with my ff posts
- Rob Cairns
I do the same thing as Rob, and occasionally add original content directly to my Twitter stream.
- Vinko
It would be interesting to see graphs that show what @Scobleizer thought these graphs showed.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Soooo if I want to subscribe do I go up and push them in the head ? :D What would be cool is if you could scan the symbol with a mobile phone and get the bloggers feed
- Mo Kargas
Every time I wear the hat I get a bar at the top that asks me if I want to wear it with Live Bookmarks, Google Reader or another outfit.
- Kevin Leroux
Looks like someone should've invested some time with Rosetta Stone.
- Akiva
any cool tech company addressing the language issue? seems like a huge opportunity to make this country and whats happening more accessible
- simonpure
xiha btw, is a very cool cross-alphabet, polyglot social network
- anna sauce