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Monday Night Thoughts (a mostly FriendFeed edition)

Just a few thoughts on Monday night after taking a long weekend off:

1. I got an email telling me that Robert Scoble had become my friend on FriendFeed. At first I was honored, but then I realized that Scoble had subscribed to pretty much everybody on FF. To me, that is not an efficient way of using FF at all. To me, FriendFeed works best when you subscribe to your actual friends and stick to that circle. It quickly becomes unwieldy and useless if you subscribe to everybody on it.
2. Congrats to the guys at FF for opening up after a very successful and productive beta and raising $5 million in Series A funding. I’m not exaggerating when I say that FriendFeed is so far the best new web service I have found this year.
3. One thing I really like about FF: no statistics, rankings, leaderboards etc. It makes for a far more relaxed environment.
4. The GoogleTalk chatback widget seems cool, so I put it on the site to test for now. I’m afraid that if it gets popular, I will have to kill it, though – after all, as much as I love my readers, how much time can I really devote to chatting with everybody?
5. Adobe’s AIR is now out of beta as well. I have used it mostly because of Snitter and I’m surprised how well it has worked. I’m developing a real liking for web-enabled desktop apps and some of the best I have seen so far are written with AIR.
6. I went to tour the Boeing Everett factory near Seattle, WA on Saturday. If you see five 747 standing in a row behind each other and they seem small, that really tells you something about the size of the Boeing operation. Definitely the most impressive factory tour I have ever been on. Also got to gaze on the first ever 787.
7. It’s nice to see more and more people ‘getting’ Twitter. If only I could convince my own family…
8. I didn’t watch the Oscars. Instead, I played Wii tennis on my newly acquired Wii. Apparently I didn’t miss much because that’s what they did on the Oscars as well.

I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

Tina Russell

I have to agree with you whole heartily regarding your point about Scoble and FriendFeed but that seems to be his way doesn’t it. He did the same with Twitter and Facebook.

Like you I got he same notification email that he had subscribe to me and my first thought was cool but hen reality reared its ugly head and I figured I was probably just one of a few hundred (or thousand) people that got the same notification.

As much as I like FriendFeed I worry now that the gates are open ther is going to be this mad rush of subscribing frenzy with no regard to who you are really subscribing to. I think I’ll be much more careful now about who I subscribe back to – after all one can only deal with some much noise I think.

Same here Steven – I decided to keep my list of friends to those people I actually really communicate with regularly in real life or on the net. Otherwise, it is just way to hard to keep up with the constant stream of new material coming in.

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