Category Archives: Friendfeed
The lock-in of Facebook takes away our freedom
Facebook is quickly becoming the biggest platform in the world. I have a serious problem with that. I don’t mind Facebook becoming a successful and profitable platform. I do mind that their current scale lets them dictate what the web … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, freedom, Friendfeed, Google, walled garden
Tagged Facebook, freedom, Friendfeed, Google, social networks, walled garden
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Calling BS on the Real-Time Web
The tech world is full of the real-time web. Google seems to have missed it, Twitter is on top of it but sucks at indexing it, Friendfeed is the aggregation king, and Facebook might get there by copying Twitter and … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter
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Social Media is bound by our human limitations
The definition of Social Media according to Wikipedia is: Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, social media, social networks, web 2.0
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, social media, social networks, web 2.0
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The real value of Twitter’s ‘Suggested users feature
Jason Calacanis has a long post up about the value of a Twitter suggested user. He explains that being a suggested user on Twitter is more valuable than buying a superbowl ad: Everyone loves a timely or fascinating question and, … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement, Friendfeed, Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble, Twitter
Tagged advertisement, Friendfeed, Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble, Twitter
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Status update: the future of the web is here!
/rant on I read a number of posts in the last week that seem unrelated but ended up making me think about this social media circus we are in. Unless you are deaf, blind, and have been sitting on a … Continue reading
Why the real-time web isn’t important
I have been thinking a bit about this notion of a real-time web. Having access to real-time information, as soon as it is published, seems to be a possible Achilles heel for Google according to some (here and here). People … Continue reading
Posted in Friendfeed, Google, Jonathan Harris, real-time web, Twitter
Tagged Friendfeed, Google, Jonathan Harris, real-time web, Twitter, user value
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Privacy is not dead, it is distributed unevenly
A famous oneliner from the CEO of Sun, Scott McNealy, in 2001 was “Privacy is dead, get over it”. It sounds true. This generation is growing up with Google, social networking, and having all relevant data on the web. We … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, privacy, Robert Scoble, web 2.0
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, privacy, Robert Scoble, web 2.0
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On competition, web 2.0 sarcasm and watching television on Friendfeed
A few things that caught my attention this morning. First, an excellent review by Walter Mossberg on the new Google phone called G1. He describes many of its new features, strengths and weaknesses. My take on it? Competition is a … Continue reading
Posted in Android Mobile OS, business model, Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, Mobile Internet, web 2.0
Tagged Android, Facebook, Friendfeed, Google G1, privacy
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The idiocy of Social Media conversations
I read a post by Robert Scoble just now that made me laugh out loud. He observes that the discussions over at Friendfeed regarding the financial crisis lack depth and knowledge. In the past 18 hours I’ve read literally thousands … Continue reading
Posted in Friendfeed, Robert Scoble, social media
Tagged Friendfeed, Robert Scoble, Social Media conversations, Steven Hodson
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Friendfeed may be the early adopter RSS king, but Twitter is king of 140 characters
Already in 2006 Time Magazine voted the most important person on the planet to be YOU. They were dead wrong of course. In that year it wasn’t YOU that was important, it was THEM. Them meaning all of your friends … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement trap, free business model, Friendfeed, noise, RSS, Twitter
Tagged advertisement trap, data collection, filtering, free business model, Friendfeed, noise, RSS, Twitter
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How User Interfaces can make or break a new service
Small Update: Just saw that Joshua Porter wrote a nice post in which he states that design (not just UI) is becoming increasingly important. Ties in nicely with this post 😉 One of the most difficult things to get right … Continue reading
Posted in Beta releases, Flock, Friendfeed, iPhone, Minggl, Twitter, UI Design, User Interface as a success factor, web 2.0, Wixi
Tagged Beta releases, Flock, Friendfeed, iPhone, Minggl, Twitter, UI as a success factor, user interface design, web 2.0, Wixi
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What do Skype, eBay, the iPhone, Robert Scoble, Friendfeed and noise have in common?
Rolf Skyberg of eBay has an interesting post up called “Skype: proof that Voice is not the killer app”. Rolf is an excellent pattern hound and he has come with another interesting pattern after he looked at Skype. Skype was … Continue reading
Posted in eBay, Friendfeed, noise, Robert Scoble, Rolf Skyberg, Skype
Tagged eBay, Friendfeed, iPhone, noise, Robert Scoble, Rolf Skyberg, Skype
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We don’t need more information or aggregation, we need inspiration
Being able to pass relevant information from one person to another has always been part of the evolution of mankind. When there was no technology we used storytelling. People would listen to the oldest, wisest, craziest people in their community … Continue reading
Posted in Friendfeed, information overload, inspiration, search, social networks, Twitter, web 2.0
Tagged content aggregation, Friendfeed, information, inspiration, search, social networks, storytellers, Twitter, web 2.0
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Friendfeed stats show its just Twitter with bookmarks
Yesterday I looked at the latest Friendfeed stats using the nice Friendfeedstats tool build by Benjamin Golub. I looked up which feeds are aggregated most in Friendfeed in the last 30 days. In 30 days approximately 1.3 Mln items were … Continue reading
Posted in content aggregation, Friendfeed, statistics, TechMeme, Twitter
Tagged content aggregation, Friendfeed, statistics, TechMeme, Twitter
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Friendfeed competes with TechMeme as a tech news aggregator
Friendfeed is on TechMeme again. This time we hear from Hugh Hutch Carpenter that some early adopters are moving towards Friendfeed now. According to Hugh Hutch people are moving away from the social services they have been using towards Friendfeed. … Continue reading
Posted in Freemium, Friendfeed, TechMeme, Technology
Tagged early adopters, Freemium, Friendfeed, tech aggregation
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5 reasons why Facebook sucks
So Facebook allows its users to import content into their newsfeeds now? Competing with aggregators like Friendfeed? Big deal. The service is already loaded with features that provide no value, so adding a new one isn’t going to make it … Continue reading
Statistics on Friendfeed usage provide interesting insights
A small update: I just saw a post of Justin Smith (Inside Facebook) interviewing Bret Taylor (co-founder of Friendfeed) about the difference between the Facebook and Friendfeed newsfeed. I don’t usually add links afterwards, but this one fits really well. … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, social interaction, Uncategorized
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, newsfeed, social interaction, statistics
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Why I don’t like Friendfeed as much as I wanted, it lacks intention
Webware writes about Friendfeed this morning. A quote from the article that drew my attention: The vision FriendFeed is currently a “social-network aggregator.” It picks up the stuff you do online and tells your friends about it, saving them the … Continue reading
Friendfeed a destination site, that is soooo web 2.0!
Michael Arrington writes this morning about the fast growing aggregator service called Friendfeed. After launch, just one month ago the ex-Google founders already see a steady climb of users. Most likely because a number of power users like Robert Scoble … Continue reading
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Can we have more comment fragmentation please!
Comment fragmentation is a hot topic in the blogosphere right now. There are tons of discussions on it. If you search on the topic you can see that every blogger has an opinion on it. There are tons of blog … Continue reading →