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Will FriendFeed Be Able To Reach The Mainstream Internet User?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... to move to grow out of its core userbase of early adopters. For those of you who haven't tried FriendFeed, think of it as a new-style forum based on a person's activity across the Web. If you've followed my coverage of FriendFeed on CenterNetworks, you know that I think it's a "conversation stealer". This means that FriendFeed takes away most of the conversation that could have taken place on the content source. For purposes of this discussion, let's leave that issue on the side. Louis Gray has a lengthy discussion about what he believes FriendFeed needs to do to, "grow and ...
FriendFeed Isn’t Dying, Although It’s a Nice Line
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Louis Gray writes about issues with FriendFeed not taking in a big way, which Stowe Boyd calls in a post describing it as why FriendFeed is dying.
It isn’t, but it’s a nice line.
Let’s start with one premise: that FriendFeed’s traffic is tanking. It’s not. Using Compete (as Stowe has) to get a full traffic measurement is like asking a person in a Palo Alto street whether they like toast, then using that data to say that people in China or Russia don’t like toast. As I’ve said time and time again: ...
Facebook Prepares To Launch FriendFeed “Like” Feature
All Facebook —
Last week we published a video that Facebook had posted describing how to publish feed stories with Facebook Connect. Today one of our readers, Amin Issa, posted an interesting observation from the video: the addition of the word “Like” which was hyperlinked. This is appears to be a duplicate of FriendFeed’s popular “like” feature.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to see the feature in action but my guess is that this was the site’s beta version. It’s interesting to see Facebook duplicating some of the features provided by FriendFeed as they strive to continue working toward becoming ...
Does a Service Need a Business Model to Have You as a Customer?
louisgray.com —
Yesterday, following on to our discussion from earlier in the month on what further efforts FriendFeed could make to attract and keep new users, a commenter wrote: "I'm a little nervous about investing a lot of time and effort in, or become reliant on, a product that has no business model - whether it's FriendFeed or Twitter. Sure it has plenty of VC money, but who knows when they'll pull the plug." Given the uncertainty we've all seen in the greater business market, and with Silicon Valley in particular, there is no ...
Facebook Cannot Steal FriendFeed's Soul
ReadWriteWeb —
Recently, Facebook added a new feature to its News Feeds: a "like" button. Now, rather than leaving a throw-away or otherwise unnecessary comment on a friend's status update, you can show your appreciation by just clicking "like" instead. Sound familiar? If not, then it's clear you haven't tried FriendFeed FriendFeed, the social web aggregation service popular among early adopters.
As avid users of FriendFeed will tell you, Facebook's implementation of FriendFeed's features are nothing but a pale imitation of the real thing. Still, there's a growing concern among the service's fans about its sustainability. Although FriendFeed's founders ...
FriendFeed Reloads With Real-Time At Its Core
louisgray.com —
FriendFeed's rise through 2008 was one of the bigger successes in the Silicon Valley startup space in what was a difficult year for practically every one else not named Twitter or Facebook (and both those companies had their challenges). But even while a growing number of enthusiastic users flocked to the site, it too had growing pains. Many people, including me, cited the interface as too complicated for average users, and remain concerned about how it can cement itself a central role in the extremely competitive social networking and information discovery sphere. Today, the site relaunched with a goal of simplifying the aggregation ...
