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Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

bryanflurry — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:49:59 -0000

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.

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

Aimen — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:25:25 -0000

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/en...

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

Hutch Carpenter — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:29:11 -0000

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

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

Ben Parr — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:03:59 -0000

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.

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

Shaun Judy — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:54:07 -0000

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

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

Wolfman-K — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:16:34 -0000

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.....

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

Ben Kessler — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:41:09 -0000

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

http://benkessler.com/2008/...

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

GreasyGuide — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:29:19 -0000

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.

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

zakkforchilli — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:35:30 -0000

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

Re: FriendFeed – Does It Enrich The Conversation Or Add To The Noise?

capobecchino — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:58:44 -0000

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)