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Re: Do you use FriendFeed?

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Post by jacobbijani »

adrianwaj wrote: post #21
ComputerGuru wrote: post #18

I can't help but think of Twitter every time someone mentions FriendFeed. I know I'm going to get a lot of flack for saying this, but FriendFeed now is exactly how Twitter was at the time of the SxSW rage. Everyone who wasn't using it "didn't know what they were missing" and it was going to be "the greatest thing since sliced email" and whatnot... Flash forward just several months, and the fad is over. These things c…

FriendFeed has surpassed Twitter in that I can change my status in GTalk or place a message in the FriendFeed and it is like writing a tweet. How much innovation has Twitter done? FF can absorb that functionality so easily...

You totally missed the point. The functionality it can absorb is useless, it doesn't matter who absorbs it.

Re: Do you use FriendFeed?

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Post by bbgm »

jacobbijani wrote: post #5
jgrahamc wrote: post #3

No

I find it pretty humorous when Scoble gets a hard on every time he's able to bring up FriendFeed. Plus, the site is REALLY ugly. Like, really, really, really ugly.

To each his own I suppose. The reason I was drawn to friendfeed was it's look n feel. Can't think of too many that I like more. Probably why none of the desktop or other versions have had any appeal

Re: Do you use FriendFeed?

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Post by bbgm »

morbidkk wrote: post #9

its nice webapp where you get to know what serious people are reading or sharing. Like digg but far wider in scope. Comment troll is noise there Most of the times I stumble on good site/article and really really nice pictures from flickr and yes its unlike twitter. Twitter is like IM and you are allowed to communicate through status message. Its hip but how useful?

We have a room there for life scientists that's ended up being one of the best sources of info out there. None of us have ever found any use for Digg (and to a lesser extent Reddit). The best part, people really not into Twitter, etc have joined up. It's like a hybrid between a newsgroup and IRC but with a slicker, easier interface.

And yes, Twitter is a totally different beast and that's a good thing

Re: Do you use FriendFeed?

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Post by adrianwaj »

jacobbijani wrote: post #31
adrianwaj wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FriendFeed has surpassed Twitter in that I can change my status in GTalk or place a message in the FriendFeed and it is like writing a tweet. How much innovation has Twitter done? FF can absorb that functionality so easily...

You totally missed the point. The functionality it can absorb is useless, it doesn't matter who absorbs it.

There is obviously demand to write 'tweets' and always will be. So long as FriendFeeder and similar sites can role that functionality into it, then Twitter doesn't have much of a competitive advantage, that's all I am saying. That's my point.

Twitter has a developer community writing to its API, but those innovations come from outsiders.

Re: Do you use FriendFeed?

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Post by Neoryder »

jacobbijani wrote: post #30
narendra wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can clean up ff to make your eyes not want to explode with userstyles http://friendfeed.com/e/db892745-dd31-45fa-a197-83146025f8c3...

I really shouldn't have to. That doesn't look like it would do much anyway. The site has no structure, the logo is stupid, and the default user icons are ugly. More importantly though, I'm not into the functionality it offers.

I think this is an important point. We tend to view useless things(at least to ourselves) as ugly.

Re: Do you use FriendFeed?

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Post by jacobbijani »

Neoryder wrote: post #36
jacobbijani wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really shouldn't have to. That doesn't look like it would do much anyway. The site has no structure, the logo is stupid, and the default user icons are ugly. More importantly though, I'm not into the functionality it offers.

I think this is an important point. We tend to view useless things(at least to ourselves) as ugly.

Not necessarily, I think Twitter looks great ;)
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