http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/04/09/friendfeed-is-about-intention/ Opinionated Web 2.0 News and Commentary Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:04:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/04/09/friendfeed-is-about-intention/comment-page-1/#comment-49384 Alexander van Elsas Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:28:34 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/04/09/friendfeed-is-about-intention/#comment-49384 Frederic, thanks for the well balanced article ;-) You are making a good point about the comments possibility of FF. That is an excellent feature, exactly because the people that use it have intent. It is, to me, the real strength of FF. It allows interaction, discussion. The "unintentional" is originating (in my view) more from the enormous possibilities to import feeds. Feeds are by nature a bit unintentional. They allow us to sit back, relax and share anything without actually putting any effort in the sharing. Which is fine for the one that shares, but sometimes leads to less valuable shared content for the receiver. As a result of the possibility to aggregate anything, FF will also have to implement filtering and spamming filters. And while I believe that you and others are becoming very conscious of what you are sharing (which is great for us ;-)), I doubt that when more people use it this will hold up. It's psychologically easier to share with the whole world (making the world anonymous), than with a specific person (you need intent there). Anyways, FF is a tool, a pretty good one. It won't be my favorite tool as you mght have guessed, but it serves a purpose, as do many tools. Frederic, thanks for the well balanced article You are making a good point about the comments possibility of FF. That is an excellent feature, exactly because the people that use it have intent. It is, to me, the real strength of FF. It allows interaction, discussion. The “unintentional” is originating (in my view) more from the enormous possibilities to import feeds. Feeds are by nature a bit unintentional. They allow us to sit back, relax and share anything without actually putting any effort in the sharing. Which is fine for the one that shares, but sometimes leads to less valuable shared content for the receiver. As a result of the possibility to aggregate anything, FF will also have to implement filtering and spamming filters. And while I believe that you and others are becoming very conscious of what you are sharing (which is great for us ), I doubt that when more people use it this will hold up. It’s psychologically easier to share with the whole world (making the world anonymous), than with a specific person (you need intent there). Anyways, FF is a tool, a pretty good one. It won’t be my favorite tool as you mght have guessed, but it serves a purpose, as do many tools.

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