FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week

#1

Post by lurkage » Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 12:49 PM UTC

FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week
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Re: FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week

#2

Post by axod » Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 4:58 PM UTC

Aren't these things just moving back towards web-chat? Quite funny really.

Re: FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week

#3

Post by mwerty » Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:06 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #2

Aren't these things just moving back towards web-chat? Quite funny really.

It's not anonymous this time.

Re: FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week

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Post by axod » Mon, Oct 20, 2008, 3:02 AM UTC

mwerty wrote: post #3

axod wrote: post #2

Aren't these things just moving back towards web-chat? Quite funny really.

It's not anonymous this time.

Um it wasn't last time either...

Re: FriendFeed to add Realtime APIs next week

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Post by mwerty » Mon, Oct 20, 2008, 7:39 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #4

mwerty wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not anonymous this time.

Um it wasn't last time either...

As I remember, webchat was (is?) anonymous by default.

Friendfeed is not anonymous by default. My point was that subtle changes in context seem to matter a lot - eg. tumblr vs blogspot. I use tumblr and still cannot tell you what it does that blogspot does not - blogspot just feels heavy.

So, even though friendfeed circles back to webchat, it might encourage entirely different kinds of things since people know each other by default and even know a bit of the social graph now.