DISQUS

capobecchino · 1 year ago

with our project, we thought about this problem and for this we don't share others streams for now.

our solution is a visual map (work in progress) and share it on blogs,sites,portals, with friends ... the map contains every meme shared on the network and a small widget to leave a reply directly.

stay tuned :o)

Zakk Forchilli · 1 year ago

It clearly just adds to the noise! I've been waiting for something that matters to say something like this.

Nils Geylen · 1 year ago

The main reason FriendFeed fragments the conversation is that you can't just import Twitter contacts and migrate. Now, FF is an empty wasteland that I have to populate manually. I don't have the time, so I stick to Twitter. Simple as that.

Noise, for that matter, is always bearable and it's up to us to define the extent of attention we want to assign to it.

GreasyGuide · 1 year ago

I like FriendFeed because it lets me easily monitor people that I really want to monitor. And what's even better is that I can get that in a daily e-mail and never have to login if I don't want to.

Ben Kessler · 1 year ago

I'm not one for shameless self-promotion usually but I actually covered this idea in my blog post here:

http://benkessler.com/2008/04/25/noise-pollutio...

Wolfman-K · 1 year ago

FriendFeed has two problems. First of all it doesn't automatically pick up all your friends on the site it's tracking, forcing you to attempt to find all those people on friend feed again....

Secondly it totally segments the conversation. I have to make a separate trip to friendfeed to check my comments there at least once a day.

SocialThing, a service I like a lot, solves both of these issues, however they are terribly slow at adding new services, so again you only get a small part of the whole social scene.

I see from previous threads that the answer seems to be adding more services to deal with these services inadequacies. I don't think that is the answer. The end user is already getting lost in the noise and complexity involved with the multiple social networks and the other networks that work with them. More services only makes that worse.

I'm not sure what the answer is myself, but somehow we need a consolidation of technology and services, but I don't see that happening.....

Shaun Judy · 1 year ago

I can see were he is coming from. I dislike FriendFeed as well. It adds so much to the noise.

Ben Parr · 1 year ago

My difficulty with FriendFeed is that it's more of a passive service rather than an active service. With Twitter, you are ALWAYS updating and NEED to keep updating to be part of the circle. With FriendFeed, you're more inclined to lay back and just watch information come to you. Sure, you can post items or comment, but it isn't even their main selling point.

I just think that FriendFeed will never go mainstream. The next great social network will probably have some of their features and turn FriendFeed obsolete.

Hutch Carpenter · 1 year ago

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Twitter is conversations centered around someone else, FriendFeed is conversations centered around content. I think the two services overlap a fair amount, but the differences in experience seem to based a lot on your personality type. More here: http://tinyurl.com/59rzyk

Aimen · 1 year ago

There is a new service call Pageonce that is still in private beta that does a good job of not only aggregating my social feeds but also lets me combine all my email accounts, my financial accounts, my cell account, other utilities, shopping and all my frequent flyer accounts into one account and one page. I have found it very handy. They are in private beta but you can join at the following link:
https://www.pageonce.com/enroll.htm

bryanflurry · 1 year ago

As you post a comment in friendfeed, check the box that says:
"Also send this comment as an @reply twitter"
so that it will also reflect in the twitter feed.