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Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

cacarr — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:34:07 -0000

Really, what ARE you talking about? I'm a bit surprised to learn that Cliqset has been around this long, because it's just like FriendFeed, except with a crappier interface, buggy as hell, and really slow.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Jason Williams — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:42:56 -0000

After all this back and forth I hope there isn't backlash towards Cliqset. They need every chance to make it without an uninformed blogger ruining things for them.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

mechanesthesia — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:58:36 -0000

NO MORE, PLEASE NO MORE!
I have FriendFeed, TweetBackup, Twistory.
I'm tired of these things.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Robyn — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:56:06 -0000

Gabriel
I can help you get the blog removed.It's actually very easy to do.
I'm on cliqset http://cliqset.com/user/roc...
Thanks

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

gabriel1970 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:33:26 -0000

I signed up after seeing this article but I accidentally added two blogspot blogs to my "services" section, one of which is not my own. I could not find out how to remove it. So I poked around, and I also couldn't find a way to delete the Cliqset account.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

disqus_0utYhk6UlF — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:58:34 -0000

The Air app for it doesn't work for me. It seems broken

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

MILE — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:03:44 -0000

"Oh, and if Christina doesn't get FriendFeed I can't wait to see her review of Google Wave. "
--> http://easiertounderstandth...

;)))

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Lochnload — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:08:19 -0000

you got to love this - @ Scobleizer
"I asked Robert how much time he actually spends on those services. He monitors them all day, he said, hitting refresh over and over on both (he doesn’t use desktop clients to manage the services, and he says he doesn’t like real-time streaming feature on Friendfeed)."
source -http://bit.ly/mylB

Now he says against Cliqset is no good because "FriendFeed is real time" -Scobleizer

Now i'm really confused lol.

Scobleizer - which side of the argument will get you more pub today ?

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

MILE — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:01:01 -0000

I pretty much agree with Christina on her criticism of friendfeed -- it is clunky, bloated, the UI sucks and I personally find it hardly usable…! I know that many people (besides Mr. Scoble) on the net think it's the best service ever, but I still think it will always stay a niche product…

I'd really like to see something that aggregates all the many social services we're all using nowadays -- in a usable and pleasant way…! Not sure if Cliqset is it, but it can't be a worse user experience than friendfeed…

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Jason H — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:49:18 -0000

No real-time? They have real-time activities and commenting. No search though.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Lochnload — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:50:16 -0000

Ok. Shows over. Nothing to see here. Move along... There will be something else to comment on in 5, 4, 3 , 2 ....

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Guest — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:21:56 -0000

Does this site pull in your friends activity from other social networks? That was the thing I never got about FriendFeed, it aggregated MY activity and then others could subscribe to it? meaning I'd have yet another site to have to build up a "friend-base" in order for it to be of any use. If this pulled in all my networks Facebook newsfeed activity, Twitter stream, last.fm likes, google reader shared items it would seem like a brilliant idea. With the ability to comment and like, RT and share all within this one interface rather than visiting individual sites or have individual apps running that would make these services all the more worthwhile. Similiar to FriendBinder (but the interface is so blah) or the Unbound column of Threadsy. If this functionality already lies in this or friendfeed, some please correct me and let me cause i'd love to check it out.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

adamhirsch — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:16:03 -0000

Well, we can all agree on one thing. FriendFeed has the more passionate community...

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

tad — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:12:56 -0000

I think the problem here is if the inaccuracies are corrected the entire tone of the article will have to be changed, and the very premise of the headline will be even more ridiculous. "Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right" because I said so.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Louis Gray — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:04:13 -0000

Understand the goal. Many people are trying to fill a perceived gap with a similar product. The major issue is that the author's comments regarding FriendFeed were frankly incorrect and should be edited. Her follow-on tone that she didn't use the service much indicated she didn't have enough data at her disposal to make a thorough comparison. If things are wrong, they should be made right with an update.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

tad — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:59:34 -0000

There's still the fact that a lot of the "shortcomings" of FriendFeed pointed out in this article are simply not true. I'd like to see those addressed as well.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

umar — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:58:28 -0000

Friendfeed has made easy to talk to each other

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Lochnload — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:55:51 -0000

I fear for the word 'friends'.

Social media has reduced its meaning to 50,000 people I don’t know and have never met.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Scobleizer — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:52:39 -0000

Cool, but now you need to address the inaccuracy of Christina's Tweet. She said people called her dumb. She said there's a "FriendFeed mafia." I learned about this article on Twitter, I don't use FriendFeed that much anymore. But that's beside the point. I can't find anyone calling Christina "dumb." I certainly didn't. I said this was bad journalism. That does NOT mean that Christina is dumb. I feel she owes the community an apology for attacking them without realizing her journalism was substandard and her comments that made it clear she hasn't used FriendFeed very much (her FriendFeed stats prove that too) make it worse.

Plus, you've marked Cliqset as a "clone" of FriendFeed forever. That's not fair to them, either.

Aggregators are aplenty anyway. SocialThing. Jaiku. Etc Etc.

I wish this industry would do something really unique.

Oh, and if Christina doesn't get FriendFeed I can't wait to see her review of Google Wave. Oh, sorry, that was a cheap shot. It's Tuesday. Shoot me.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

digideth — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:47:29 -0000

I am sorry but I agree with Christina.

If the common person (she is far from common btw) can't figure it our EASILY its the developers PROBLEM not the users.

Bad user interface design

So far i have been with both services since the begining and I am happier using Cliqset.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Adam Ostrow — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:46:44 -0000

Robert, as the editor of this article, in retrospect I think the headline may not have been the best choice. The story is certainnly more a review of Cliqset, not a feature-by-feature comparison with FriendFeed.

What we were trying to get at is it seems like there is an opportunity to fill the void FF has left (see: http://www.centernetworks.c..., though mind you, that opportunity might not be that big as aggregation has not proved hugely popular, and we should have been more clear about why we're making the comparison.

"Done Right" in the way I was thinking about it means a product that may have more appeal to a wider audience, as simplicity has certainly won out most of the time in recent history. But indeed, if we're to make such a statement we need to a better job explaining why it's better than what we're comparing it to.

Lesson learned.

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Goatse — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:46:24 -0000

Pretty impressive but I don't see it taking off. The name is horrible and I hate the design.
also my 2nd photo didnt upload and neither times did it post to my twitter or facebook.
looks like its buggy. nice idea though.

I expect next week we'll see a post "Cliqset done right"

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

marfi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:44:46 -0000

The best part about this article are actually the comments, as I like to say - truth is born via discussion and birth to a very grotesque truth has just been given, and the truth is, that a lot of smart people lost their time, reading a lousy report about a new service, which might not be lousy, but being lousy described, will eventually be given such a name :)

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

Ata İsmet Özçelik — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:30:37 -0000

Totally agree to Robert here. I think people always assume that to praise one web site one must criticise a popular and relatively similar web site, which is wrong in my case..

Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right

WinFe — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:29:51 -0000

I have accounts in both, I think, for now, FriendFeed has people and CliqSet is building its base. CliqSet help-response is superior.