I think they totally miss out on the 'online identity' opportunity. Why not provide custom templates for the profile page ? Together with their post option, Friendfeed could become a real blog replacement platform. The dream would be a Friendfeed (for the power of the social backend) + Storytlr (for the beauty of the profile page) combo !
paulgiacherio
· 8 months ago
I definitely think they're missing the customization boat. Themes and the ability to bounce to a URL and you'd basically create a hosted Sweetcron solution.
roger baut
· 8 months ago
Excellent article and impressive social media guide! Roger ☺
Guillaume
· 8 months ago
I completely agree on the design (completely awful) and the other things. The thing is that with time goes by the possibility for Friendfeed to become mainstream is narrowing. Do you think they could become a niche website??
Luís Felipe
· 8 months ago
Totally agree with your thoughts about friendfeed Anyway, friendfeed is the best way to aggregate all my web activity and share to any other site or service via RSS, not only to Facebook or Twitter.
nimbus77
· 8 months ago
I find it interesting that the live updating got so much attention. It is there in the old design just not turned on by default. It was a change of the default settings, not a new feature.
I agree that the more advanced parts of FF, like rooms (now called groups), should be easier to find. FF is great for creating quick discussions and should capitalize on that.
Jamie Stephens
· 8 months ago
All excellent points. I definitely think some small design changes could go a long way towards making the site more appealing to a broader audience. It looks very techie right now and that seems to be the primary audience coming in.
I think your point about search is apt. If FF could establish itself as a real-time search engine across multiple services, then I might be more inclined to use it. However, I would want it to search *all* content of these different services (Flickr, Twitter, etc.) and not just the feeds that had been added by FF users.
James Ostheimer
· 8 months ago
While I think most of your points are good, pointing to this tweefind thing again is ludicrous, it returned 0 results for most of my queries, and wasn't very good (for reasons I pointed out and have blogged about: http://re-searchr.blogspot.com/2009/04/tweefind...). What is it with tweefind, that you find so compelling? Sorry if this is off-topic, I am just interested in the twitter search field and can't figure out why all this coverage for tweefind...
ramiromarques
· 8 months ago
Great post. I like friendfeed a lot and have it in my blogs.
Nathan Snyder
· 3 months ago
I like FriendFeed, as another article pointed out, there is a filter to slow things down by who you're watching so that it doesn't update so fast. From myself, if it updates too fast, there is a pause button (top right) it also "queues" items which show up on mouseover at the top.
Nathan Snyder
· 3 months ago
I like FriendFeed, as another article pointed out, there is a filter to slow things down by who you're watching so that it doesn't update so fast. From myself, if it updates too fast, there is a pause button (top right) it also "queues" items which show up on mouseover at the top.
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Anyway, friendfeed is the best way to aggregate all my web activity and share to any other site or service via RSS, not only to Facebook or Twitter.
I agree that the more advanced parts of FF, like rooms (now called groups), should be easier to find. FF is great for creating quick discussions and should capitalize on that.
I think your point about search is apt. If FF could establish itself as a real-time search engine across multiple services, then I might be more inclined to use it. However, I would want it to search *all* content of these different services (Flickr, Twitter, etc.) and not just the feeds that had been added by FF users.