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Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

macewan — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:37:05 -0000

Techcrunch has an interesting article on FriendFeeds affect on Twitter.

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

ChaChaFance — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:46:36 -0000

*Ditto* =)

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

John McCrea — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:09:16 -0000

Adam,

Nice piece. Good analysis. I really think the Aggregator space is heating up. Why? As the Social Web opens up and many thousands of sites become socially-enabled, Aggregators, like Plaxo Pulse, FriendFeed, and Facebook will serve a vital function of social discovery and the convenience of a single, simple interface for staying on top of what your friends and family are creating and sharing online.

John McCrea
vp of marketing, plaxo

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

Jesse — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:32:36 -0000

So long friendfeed! Peace out!

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

Adam Ostrow — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:10:06 -0000

good point ... facebook's filtering options are an advantage, as is the fact you also get all the other facebook updates (when your friends add photos, friends, post items, etc0 that friendfeed doesn't have

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

Hashim Warren — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:06:55 -0000

What makes Facebook's implementation more powerful than Friendfeed's is the newsfeed algo' that will only show your friends select stories from your feed.

You can add all the events in your feed that you want and Facebook will make sure to show the right amount to the right people so no one is overwhelmed.

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

LeonWestbrook — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:35:56 -0000

Awesome. I prefer to use facebook.

Almost no one i know uses Friendfeed.

Re: Facebook Tries to Take the FriendFeed Concept Mainstream

Benedikt — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:25:09 -0000

But you still cannot comment on them directly in Facebook or like them. And that's where the magic of Friend<del>book</del>Feed starts. It's all about conversation.