Some Conversations have shifted to Friendfeed
Friendfeed aggregates your friends social activities
As if Twitter wasn’t enough, I’m seeing a surge of usage on Friendfeed, and it’s worth watching. Friendfeed is an aggregator of lifestreams.
Understanding Lifestreams
What’s a lifestream? It pulls all your friends social media activities (from twitter, flickr, blogs, facebook, and anything else with RSS) onto one page. In addition to the aggregation, there’s a robust commenting system where people are able to leave comments, post comments up to 2000 characters (see my test).
Twitter downtime spurring Friendfeed growth
Now many are starting to suggest this is a twitter-killer, but in reality it’s not, unless the downtime continues (Twitter was down 37 hours, Jan-April 08, the most of any social network). Twitter is one of the many tributaries that makes up one’s publishing stream, and Friendfeed simply aggregates them all.
Filtering tools
In the end, the noise on Friendfeed could be far greater than Twitter, in addition to tweets, you’ll be seeing other high frequency conversations occur and updates. Update: Louis Gray has a how-to guide on how to use the ‘hide’ feature to filter content. It looks like Friendfeed does elevate the most active discussions to the top of a page (I noticed this on my page) so it looks like it will do some filtering.
Future of Content: Amorphous and Ubiquitous
In the future, expect content to continue to separate from the website platforms they first originated on, content continues to become amorphous and read and written off domain.
Network with other Friendfeed users: leave handle in comments
If you want to Network with others, leave your Friendfeed handle below in the comments, mine is jowyang. I recommend you don’t add your name if you don’t want to network with many folks.
Update: Hmm, case in point: many are confused where to put their handle, as they’re seeing replicas of this same blog post over in Friendfeed. Some say I created a cascade!
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http://friendfeed.com/benhedrington
OK, I’m somewhat skeptical of being able to find real value in all that noise without being a full-time filterer, but let’s see….
http://friendfeed.com/devahaz
I’m still not 100 percent sold on FriendFeed but there are pieces that I definitely like. I’ll keep playing with it and slowly ingrain myself in the FF community.
http://friendfeed.com/mediaphyter
I find friendfeed to be great to aggregate all my stuff, I just can’t grasp why anyone would want to see it all! But here it is:
http://friendfeed.com/orangejack
I am tired of the Twitter issues, so like you I am looking to build a base in FriendFeed.
http://friendfeed.com/urothane
http://friendfeed.com/dhinchcliffe
Maybe FriendFeed would be a more stable platform for microblogger than Twitter
http://friendfeed.com/markdykeman
http://friendfeed.com/elroy
I hide all tweets.
I enjoy reading blog posts, disqus comments, and long walks on the beach….
http://friendfeed.com/zena
http://www.friendfeed.com/louisgray/
5 tips to reduce the noise:
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/05/friendfeed-friday-tips-1-five-ways-to.html
http://friendfeed.com/bhc3
Come on in, the FriendFeed water is warm.
It’s amazing, Twitter went down as soon as I posted this blog post.
FriendFeed (and Twitter) handle: Aureliusmaximus
Loving FriendFeed btw.
ha3rvey on twitter and friendfeed.
Man, I gotta start a blog soon.
http://friendfeed.com/michellebb
Here’s to stability!
http://friendfeed.com/adnan
http://friendfeed.com/bwana
Now…I was told there would be punch & pie?
I’m certainly not sold on FF, but I am using it. It’s not a twitter killer, or for the mainstream masses, but it serves the aggregation/lifestream need better than any other service at the moment.
Now I just need someone to develop a WP plug-in (or something similar) that adds FF comments to specific blog posts on my blog and vice versa. FF (and even Twitter) equate to fragmented conversations. You’re only getting part of the story from one source.
http://friendfeed.com/jbruin
http://friendfeed.com/afalk
http://friendfeed.com/ekijul
http://friendfeed.com/haruszpapa
Oh man, now I gotta figure out how to drink from the FriendFeed fire hose:
http://friendfeed.com/doughaslam
(Michael Dougherty, owner of “dough,” how much?
robdiana on friendfeed and twitter. This is a terrible time for twitter to have problems. FriendFeed has a lot of buzz right now, and provides almost all of the services that twitter does.
http://friendfeed.com/feste2
We would have been out of luck just a few months ago.
Thanks FriendFeed.
I find FriendFeed useful in a different way (aggregation) than Twitter (microblogging) and I’m not honestly sure how much of the “conversation” I see moving over there. However, I am there at:
http://friendfeed.com/danyork
http://friendfeed.com/mickeleh
Ok, so I signed up to friendfeed, then. Here’s my link / handle:
http://friendfeed.com/harald
http://friendfeed.com/kbondelli
Twitter down again, it’s driving me mad.
http://friendfeed.com/petrolmer
I trade under nullvariable
http://friendfeed.com/sonnygill
http://friendfeed.com/spiderwebwoman
http://friendfeed.shawnmor
Is there an easy way to import my twitter users over to ff? All i see is email import…
I like FF, but I wish there was a way to import my Twitter following/ers into FF without having to individually search for them. I know there is a program to do it on PC’s, but for a Mac person that doesn’t help.
http://friendfeed.com/melfi
With Twitter so unstable, FriendFeed is the place to be:
http://friendfeed.com/leeodden
I’m here, @lizwebpage on Twitter (dammmit all!) or http://friendfeed.com/lizwebpage on Friend Feed. Argh!
My handle is http://friendfeed.com/ontarioemperor
Incidentally, I will be participating in tomorrow’s Twit-Out and will try to use FriendFeed as a substitute for Twitter. I’ve already identified some deficiencies, especially regarding mobile access, but it should be a good experiment.
Using FF more and more…..
http://friendfeed.com/kcearns
Thank goodness, it’s the same username: http://www.friendfeed.com/maxgladwell
http://friendfeed.com/shawnmor
http://friendfeed.com/kyeung808
they call me kosmar on the intertube
http://friendfeed.com/jblock
http://friendfeed.com/atul
http://friendfeed.com/andyscherer
Forget Indiana Jones, it’s time for…
ronnieledesma
and the twitter that ate my update!
@ronnieledesma
http://friendfeed.com/davidpeacock
http://friendfeed.com/rmsylte
http://friendfeed.com/jimcahill
http://friendfeed.com/ronnieledesma
http://friendfeed.com/huntertech
http://friendfeed.com/lpt
http://friendfeed.com/aprille
http://friendfeed.com/kdpaine
http://friendfeed.com/vdegeorge
http://friendfeed.com/somenice
Salute!
http://friendfeed.com/jnathan
http://friendfeed.com/cryptovenom
Follow me and learn about PitchEngine - http://mediapitch.ning.com
http://friendfeed.com/tierney
This is a classic case of how 2.0 is adaptive, particularly when elasticity is so low due to low barriers to switching (http://tinyurl.com/4o3usv) This radical change in economic balances is part of the tsunamic effects that have disciplines like marketing on its head. There is no stability. Change is now continuous, accelerating, and changing amplitudes. Marketing has never included the deeper disciplines of classic economics (opposed to financial) or physics to this degree. This is truly disruptive.
FriendFeed: Rotkapchen
http://friendfeed.com/daiski
http://friendfeed.com/jonofsonoma
Over the past three weeks, I have moved from 90/10 twitter/ff to almost 10/90, I say I am impressed with the ease of participating in conversations with ff vs the disjointed nature of twitter, when it is up.
my Friendfeed handle
http://friendfeed.com/rjeffries
I find FF to be much more valuable than Twitter.
Not fully in “I heart” mode with FriendFeed - but, man, I’ve been getting that technical error page on Twitter way too much!
http://friendfeed.com/acriley
http://friendfeed.com/ayelet
http://friendfeed.com/warhawke
Twitter has been frustrating me to no end. You’d think with 5+ mil in funding they’d be able to hire the tech know-how to keep the site up at least. Do that before adding stuff to a broken site.
Anyway, here’s my FF handle http://friendfeed.com/paulshort
I don’t know that Friendfeed will take over from Twitter for me in terms of these conversations. Like others I need to learn to moderate the flow there. I’m reading Louis Gray’s post about that in another tab at the moment.
In the meantime, Twitter, as enamoured of it as we all are, is obviously suffering significant stability issues again given this week’s downtime.
http://friendfeed.com/trib
http://friendfeed.com/swerveball
not into FF yet…. convince me…
Sigh, just as I was getting addicted to twitter…
http://friendfeed.com/thumbble
http://friendfeed.com/perryhewitt
In the month that I’ve been using FriendFeed, there is some interesting stuff IF you’re willing to spend time with all of the clutter…
The Twitter outages remind me of the rapid rise and fall of the CB radio…people loved the immediacy of quasi-anonymous conversations. It was a victim of its own popularity - as more people joined in, the quality became terrible and people started using it less. The mighty CB radio gave way to…guess…the mobile phone.
Too bad history never repeats itself
http://friendfeed.com/connectme360
http://friendfeed.com/stephenandrewlynch
http://friendfeed.com/baratunde
http://friendfeed.com/kellieparker
I love my Twitter, I really do. But these outages are becoming unbearable. I’m patient enough for the fix, but in the meantime, I’m using FF more and more… Now if it only had a decent iPhone interface I’d use it constantly!
Here’s my FF handle;
http://friendfeed.com/limalicas
http://friendfeed.com/brianwatkins
Here’s my BFF
http://friendfeed.com/jgonnella
http://friendfeed.com/iknowseo
http://friendfeed.com/zsafwan
Tool recommended to import twitter contacts to friendfeed: http://internetducttape.com/2008/04/21/import-twitter-to-friendfeed/
Tried it - it works.
http://www.friendfeed.com/wiredprworks
@wiredprworks on twitter
ok let’s try FF.
http://friendfeed.com/thijs
http://friendfeed.com/amtendo
http://friendfeed.com/lizpw
walterpike on twitter and friendfeed
http://friendfeed.com/clintschaff
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http://friendfeed.com/divedi
You guys are crazy. Friendfeed is useless - you can only see posts from people you follow if they reply to your posts only. Useless.
I’m thinking of setting up a petition for Yahoo to buy Twitter and run it at a loss in return for the traffic. Would you guys / gals sign up?
http://friendfeed.com/lwaldal/
http://twitter.com/lwaldal/
i can get my non-geeky friends to use twitter but i can’t get them to use friendfeed because friendfeed’s design is too ugly and even harder to figure out than twitter.
socialthing has a much nicer user interface and design than friendfeed but not as much functionality as friendfeed and socialthing is still in private beta. i want friendfeed’s functionality with socialthing’s design and twitter’s simplicity so i can get my geeky and non-geeky friends in the same place.
anything for you Jeremiah. btw, have you met my 2nd cousin, Becky Teitelbaum? she’s at Forester and says she will try twitter b/c of you.
http://friendfeed.com/dwitzel
I find more value in Twitter, but here goes any way:
http://friendfeed.com/johnsheridan
Twitter is like the chatter you hear at a cocktail party while on the way to the bar, FriendFeed is stopping by to participate in the conversation. (previously commented the same in one of the many daily Twitter-FriendFeed debates)
http://friendfeed.com/jcunwired
http://friendfeed.com/gartenberg
Not sure about the Friendfeed, though it integrates with Twhirl just fine. Does anyone notice that the original Friendfeed post pops up when a new comment is added and not the new comment?
I think that Twitter is a more manageable many-many-few system and that Friendfeed will result in an avalanche of information that will be hard to parse and pinpoint the relevant stuff. Frankly, I don’t follow that many people on Twitter as it is.
And yet, http://friendfeed.com/mvermut
http://friendfeed.com/drthomasho
http://www.friendfeed.com/ppatel
http://www.friendfeed.com/geekmommy
That said, I’ll be sticking with Twitter too. Two reasons:
1) Direct Messages
2) Grey text - can’t read FF for long without my eyes hurting. They said they will find a solution to that eventually, but for now? No dice.
Timing is everything.
http://friendfeed.com/russellreno
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100 comments, you are the Friendfeed centurions, my early adopter community.
http://www.friendfeed.com/kevinfrey
Darn! I missed the cut.
http://friendfeed.com/giggey
I’m in. Call me a “not quite so early” adopter.
http://friendfeed.com/kylemarshall
Signed up to Friendfeed as a result of reading this post. I guess I’ll see how it goes ….. http://friendfeed.com/martinjy
you are like the social media herder.. thanks for connecting..
http://friendfeed.com/dirkmshaw
So far, FriendFeed looks pretty decent. I had never heard of it until you mentioned this site. Twitter just isn’t that reliable lately.
http://friendfeed.com/outlanderusa
Dirk
Is that better, or worse than a nerf herder?
http://friendfeed.com/jalam
@Rhonda’s comment strikes me as another reason why it’s more than OK for numerous websites to run similar stories over time. Happy to see FriendFeed here Jeremiah!
http://friendfeed.com/charlieanzman
Going to toggle Twitter on/off for a few days see if the signal to noise ratio improves..
http://friendfeed.com/pixel
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@Barbara
twitter-to-friendfeed has been dying for me after about 50 friends. I suppose I should try it again.
http://friendfeed.com/tylerhannan
http://friendfeed.com/4fthawaiian
Great idea!
Cheers to Jeremiah
http://friendfeed.com/rayval
I use FF and twitter. I have most of my friends on twitter, and therefore I use that most of the time. www.twitter.com/elsbar.
twitter.com/rahsheen
friendfeed.com/rahsheen
microrahsheen or striderz elsewhere
http://friendfeed.com/yogar
http://friendfeed.com/wabisabime
And it’s still Tues on the West Coast
Well im starting to loose trust and hope in the service from twitter. Im not finding friend feed to be as succint as twitter.
Lately Friendfeed has amended something in its layout or content and it no longer feels as addled as it was whenＩfirst dropped into it.
http://www.friendfeed.com/loudmouthman
Thanks.
Lets give this a shot
http://friendfeed.com/dhettema
I am andymurd all over the internet and twitter. My FF is:
http://friendfeed.com/andymurd
I haven’t been using Friendfeed much — worried about hearing too much noise! — but perhaps it’s time I give it another look.
Here’s my page: http://friendfeed.com/bryanperson
On FriendFeed as creepysleepy http://friendfeed.com/creepysleepy
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Twitter is down an awful lot these days…!
http://friendfeed.com/marioolckers
Amen on the noise — gimme those filters! http://friendfeed.com/annierodkins
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http://www.friendfeed.com/samuel
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Didn’t realize how much I liked Twitter until it went down yesterday.
http://www.friendfeed.com/jgraziani
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http://www.friendfeed.com/dougdockery
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http://www.friendfeed.com/chrisrossini
I’m still wondering why more and more people can’t get enough @danieljohnsonjr, but here goes:
http://friendfeed.com/danieljohnsonjr
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