Early on in this week’s Elite Tech News Podcast, Robert Scoble mentioned how he wants to be able to be able to easily share specific items to his rooms through filters.
As I said on the show, I think this is a huge oportunity for 3rd party developers to do something interesting with FriendFeed. As I have bemoaned far too often - the current breed of FriendFeed desktop clients (and especially the hybrid Twitter-FriendFeed ones) do a decent job at re-creating the FriendFeed experience, but are not doing anything transformative in the way the early Twitter clients turned “What are you doing?” into a global chat room.
3rd party developers could jump in here and allow filtered posting.
Also, as I was thinking about this - how come none of the third party developers have yet jumped in and developed more messaging oriented services on top of FriendFeed. The FriendFeed.com development team isn’t adopting the @xxx convention to ping a user themselves as far as I can tell, but a 3rd party tool could easily facilitate this.
If anything, developers could turn FriendFeed rooms into Twitter like chatrooms…
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