<rant> Allen Stern wrote a nice, concise rant about Friendfeed today, where he argues that FF still has to fix a lot of usability issues before it can ever go mainstream. I mostly agree with Allen, but I think that FF’s real issue goes far deeper than just usability.
Sadly, being a big fan of Friendfeed in [...]
Bret Taylor from FriendFeed announced a new FF feature tonight: personalized recommendations.
That’s why I’m happy to announce we just launched a feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through your entire feed. Underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage, you now have links to see the [...]
At the beginning of the year, it looked like Shared Items from Google Reader or other RSS readers were going to become a major force. Products like Linkriver, ReadBurner, RSSMeme and others were innovating quickly. So where are we now?
In his latest column, Steve Gillmor says the following:
Just as Google Reader reached a crescendo [...]
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 [...]
Now that I’m caught up on the events of the last week, it becomes pretty clear that FriendFeed is still the topic du jour. Today, TechCrunch announces (based on Compete data), that FriendFeed still has a lot of killing to do:
FriendFeed certainly has a lot of potential, but it still has a lot of killing [...]
I was just reading Alexander van Elsas’ piece on FriendFeed and intention. As usual Alexander does a great job digging deep into one issue. This time, it’s what he sees as a major flaw in FriendFeed – the lack of intention in sharing the items that appear in the FriendFeed stream.
Here is why he thinks [...]
FriendFeed just announced the launch of the FriendFeed API:
We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It’s designed to make it possible for anyone improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications. You can develop a FriendFeed interface for a mobile [...]
FriendFeed’s new ability to allow users to post comments on tweets back into Twitter sure took the blogosphere by storm.
Steven Hodson says that this, together with adding the ability to import Disqus comments, represents a major change in the conversation landscape. Mathew Ingram thinks it is an elegant solution to one of the more vexing [...]
Robert Scoble switched his homepage to Friendfeed. That’s a major endorsement for Friendfeed, and while I think his rethoric of Friendfeed as a Google Reader or Techmeme killer is a bit over the top, though his reasons for switching are very interesting:
On top of FriendFeed right now are people I don’t know. No A-listers. I’m [...]
When I talked to Bret Taylor from FriendFeed today, he mentioned that they were adding about a feature a week. What he didn’t mention was that Friendfeed was going to add a very good search function as soon as today. I guess this doesn’t come as a surprise, given that FriendFeed was founded by ex-Googlers.
Whereas [...]
Even though there was some controversy around Louis Gray’s post on A-listers joining FriendFeed, it seems that his post, together with the resulting coverage on Techmeme and Robert Scoble writing about it on his blog, brought FriendFeed to a tipping point in terms of getting more mainstream exposure.
Earlier this morning, Gabe Rivera twittered that
“It’s apparent [...]
It’s no secret that I have developed quite a liking for FriendFeed since Louis Gray pointed me towards it last December and now that the beta period is over and FriendFeed is open for everyone, I thought I would write a little companion piece to the “How I Use Twitter” post from a few weeks [...]
