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Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

Vincent Nicolai — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:16:54 -0000

edit:
another thing is - propbably im totally into the stuff of p. cashmore and want so badly know what he's doing across dozens of websites.

no chance with facebook. because pete wouldn't never ever add me as his friend :(

hehe

cheers

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

Vincent Nicolai — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:11:10 -0000

The point is, as you mentioned, that e.g. you use friendfeed to get the latest updates and news and stuff like that. you get that stuff form people you probably haven't ever met before, right?

so, that's the point why facebook will never kill friendfeed. friendfeed is about the content - about building vertical networks, building you stream that matches your interest.

facebook is about getting updates of your friends, about their interests - but not necessarily stuff you are interested in.

therefore imo friendfeed is a vertical social network killer. vertical sn are about content of a certain topic - that's why people go there. frienfeed offers every kind of topic-related content and lets you build your own "social network" within frienfeed and share content with others that are as well into this topic.

Just my 2 cents ... :)

Best regards from germany and the friendfeed-clone (the german one): freundenews.de

y? because it's such a great business-model.

Cheers

Vince

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

Eric Rice — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:58:28 -0000

The best part of being an early adopter and Friendfeed user et al, is that we've got the micro-commenting practice. Now we can easily wander through the halls of Facebook's comments.

FF certainly helped developed our personal agility in using the mainstream social apps.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

StevenHodson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:01:23 -0000

You'll always know where I am coming from. People may not like my point of view but it will always be my honest thoughts.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

grudknows — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:49:49 -0000

I find friend feed a little clunky (I'm a speed scanner).

In terms of facebook the inbox is the most useful thing - mostly facebook just sucks data from other web services such as del.icio.us, stumbleupon, last.fm, etc making it look like I'm much more active that I am... and enables me to stay in touch with close friends scattered around the globe. In terms of the annoying apps, I'm the queen of application blocking!

I haven't really found an aggregator browse service that I'm really happy with yet - still searching (as my web memberships will attest)!

In terms of the author having a bias, we all have our biases an it was stated so you knew which point of view the author was coming from.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

Danny R — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:14:13 -0000

This post is awful.

It sucks to read an article whose author has a prejudice against the subject right off the bat.

It's like an Apple Fanboy writing about a new Microsoft Product.

Steven's mind is clouded.

Facebook playing catch up with the leaders?

Which social networking site came up with a platform first? I don't think it's MySpace or Google (Orkut).

By the way, commenting on something is not exactly a pioneering idea.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

Gemma — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:07:47 -0000

I've all but given up on Facebook. There are one or two interesting applications on there but the integration is suspect on many sadly.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

StevenHodson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:29:44 -0000

I never said if it was a good or bad thing I just said that in my opinion it was a *YAWN* feature.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

chris — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:13:50 -0000

Maybe I don't get it. What's the problem with spotting a successful tool and applying it in-house??? It would be ignorant of them not to, right?

hater

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

StevenHodson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:09:18 -0000

My apologies to the Mashable readers for an error on my part that highlighted an older feature addition instead of the new one. While that doesn't change my overall impression of this newest addition I thank the readers who pointed this out to me and for keeping me on my toes.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

BrianMojo — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:44:54 -0000

Yeah, I was going to say the same as the above commenters. It's a yawn feature now, yes, but it becomes much more interesting when you factor in the fact that the newsfeed is about to become much more dynamic with the profile overhaul.

Re: Facebook Playing Follow the Leader Again

StevenHodson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:38:52 -0000

noted and with my apologies but that also shows how much I use Facebook and the fact that the Mini-feed (which took me a while to find) doesn't support any of the services I use on a regular basis.

Again my apologies and I'll fix up the post shortly but the basic premise of the post that this is a *YAWN* feature still holds now that I've found the right thing.