Comments on: My Thoughts on the Current State of FriendFeed

By: Peter Moore

Peter Moore — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:08:58 +0000

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more posts like this? Plese tell me, thanks

By: Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:46:34 +0000

I used OrangePascal script with FriendFeed API to show lifestream on my website.

Socialthing is with AOL. Friendfeed is gone. I am looking for an alternative which can provide at least following services in lifestream.
1. Twitter
2. Picasa Web Album
3. last.fm

And JSON API so that i can have life stream on my own website. Any help is appreciated.

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:44:59 +0000

You're welcome Chris. I'd love to be on the podcast in the future.

By: IdoNotes

IdoNotes — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:45:09 +0000

Wow, we appreciate the kind words on the podcast. You are right. We actually had more discussion but in order to stay reasonably on time we cut it down to what you heard. I think the initial blast from hearing of the purchase put everyone on guard that has invested time in FriendFeed, yet now that the immediate dust has cleared there is no changes showing as planned.

I imagine we will slowly see some branding and then integration take place. As well as merging your login information over to pure Facebook.

Thanks for pointing people over, come and join us sometime on the show!!

By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:08:00 +0000

Thanks Anna. I'm crossing my fingers too. You never know.

By: Californian

Californian — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:16:30 +0000

I wish you could try Wave out, because it is really great. It would be nice to be able to invite others to the dev sandbox now so that we can talk to people we already know in order to give it a true test run (instead of just testing our extensions). September isn't too far away though!

By: banane

banane — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:48:34 +0000

Great level-headed analysis, Mark, and I completely agree. I'm kind of waiting to find another service, and do maintain a small hope that perhaps, perhaps, FF would stay as some kind of 'google labs' of feature. Just as I type this I find it unlikely, tho.

By: dcfemella

dcfemella — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:14:51 +0000

Mark, that was an amazing post!

By: traeblain

traeblain — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:12:52 +0000

Again, I'd have to disagree. Mimicry is the antithesis of innovation. The FF and FB likes and comments are essentially the exact same thing. Taking a current idea and present it or work it in a whole new way can be seen as innovative which is where Elvis's "innovations" more closely fell under. FB's likes and comments are direct copies, and a larger audience does not directly imply innovation (most often it simply means the credit for the idea gets skewed). Because FB had their eye on FF since 07 and status comments/likes have been integrated since then, it's not a hard assumption to make that these thing might not ever come about if FF hadn't done it first. (It is an assumption, but not a difficult assumption to make.)

If Twitter's newest feature was full media tweets or commented/threaded tweets, everyone would love the idea but there would be no argument over the fact that these features aren't innovations. Facebook doesn't get a pass on this because of it's size/reach, it got this size by it's original innovative ideas but has been very stagnate as of late. FriendFeed's maturation has always been through innovative thought, which includes applying old ideas in a whole new way.

By: John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:25:02 +0000

The post, entitled “Why do FriendFeed users feel jilted? Or, an examination of erotic impulses,” is up at http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-do... – it looks at the emotional reaction of many of us to the announcement, and wonders why we reacted in this way.