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Anybody else on FriendFeed? I've been using if for about 2 days and it seems pretty one of a kind (I would only compare it with Jaiku which also pulls in feeds, but definitely doesn't display the content in the right format, much like the difference between Twitter and Pownce).
I sure hope the 'inside' looks better than that landing page!
not too much. But it's simple, you don't need a crazy layout (it only slows down the page), just aggregate all of your information in one place.
The developers are ex-googlers so they're used to dead simple designs with a bare minimum of options (but it makes it fairly simple to figure everything out, and doesn't try to compete directly with anyother service).
Ah cool.
I've requested an invite. Will see how it goes
I've been using it and I think it's great. In the OpenSocial world this could be a great replacement for the facebook news feed. What exactly are the differences to Jaiku? I don't have a Jaiku account so if anyone has any invites left I'd be very grateful
FriendFeed is just an aggregator of various feeds, whereas Jaiku is both an aggregator and a twitter clone. However, FreindFeed has slightly more functionality in its format of the different content types.
I'm sending you an invite to FriendFeed and Jaiku. Good luck!
nvm. Guess you already have a FriendFeed account. I friended you.
thanks. I prefer the clean feel of friendfeed but I can see that jaiku has quite a bit more functionality. I wonder if the friendfeed guys knew about the Jaiku acquisition when they left Google. Their old employer now has a direct competitor with them.
Adding feeds is a lot easier in friendfeed but you can add more feeds in jaiku
Is this limited to only social networking streams? I've been looking for this functionality(and found it in Streamy), but if this can do the same thing - the news, it may be worth a look too.
Ultimately all this sites come down to grabbing the RSS feeds automatically of your friends, its just a little more work on some sites than others. You can make any RSS reader do the same thing although uglier, if you spend some time looking for the URLs.
This isn't really an RSS reader so much as a page for unifying all of YOUR feeds (although you can create pages for other people). Whereas most people use RSS readers for checking news on various sites, friendfeed is meant to monitor your friends' activity on the internet (on social networks or any site).
I wasn't arguing that it was an RSS reader itself, but more so that you could use any RSS reader to do the same thing if you took the feeds.
I was arguing that the functionality is easily duplicated by any existing RSS reader.
Its a Feature vs. Product thing.
A good summary of what I was getting at is found here:
http://startupism.com/2007/10/02/products-vs-features-or-why-digg-will-fail/
Ultimate the product that will win me over in this part of the Web 2.0 sphere is the product that will do all of these things and do them well:
Let you access your webmail(google, yahoo, etc.) + RSS Read(both news and friend streams from other sites) + have chat functionality(both IRC as well as MSN/Yahoo/AIM/ICQ)
I don't think I'm alone in this. If people could combined Google Reader + FriendFeed + Meebo + , that is all they would need to visit besides all their social networking sites(all niche social networking activities can have Facebook or OpenSocial apps, by this I mean things like flixster/netflix(for social purposes not receiving movies), last.fm, etc.).
One final note, Fav.or.it allows for comments on blogs from with it which combines a RSS reader with comments where you don't have to click to get there. This is functionality that most RSS reades will need to adopt to stay competitive in the marketplace.
Looks aren't important in the early days Rai.
eh??
You said landing page is not very good.
I like it.
Functional!
ah... Function doesn't have to be independent of form
friendfeed works really well within facebook. It could be the 'News Feed' of choice in the OpenSocial world. The imaginary friends feature is interesting because it means your friends don't necessarily have to join in order for you to track their activity on the web.
Plenty of room on the right hand side for ads as well
@Charlieperry
Does the imaginary friend create a folder where you can consolidate a bunch of feeds from different sites?
Basically if you know you have a friend called Bob and you know his flickr feed and blog feed you can set Bob up as a friend and get all his updates in one place. I'm not sure what happens when Bob actually joins friendfeed. You probably just delete your imaginary Bob.
So its like a folder for a person that isn't already using the service where you can place all the RSS feeds you know for that person, interesting.
I can move all of my 'social feeds' (ie flickr, friends blogs, friends delicious) out of Google Reader and into friendfeed. It's basically a social RSS reader.
But why move them out? Thats what I don't understand, aren't we striving for one site for our RSS reading, instead of many?
Good point. I have both on my iGoogle page. I imagine a friendfeed can get very crowded because you can link in twitter and last.fm and feeds which generally produce lots of updates. I don't put twitter in my Google Reader but I have it in my friendfeed.
So far I'm having a hard time seeing the reason to switch to this from my current bloglines/google reader setup. What's the killer app part of it? It could really use some highlighting of what makes it special.
It sort of replaces the facebook news feed for people who don't like using facebook
It's far greater than just a "facebook newsfeed replacement". What Twitter did for microblogging, this app has the potential to do for "news feeds".
well put adamant... to quote my own tweet: "...believes specialized solutions like friendfeed.com + flickr.com + del.icio.us will replace facebook and other dedicated social networks"
I kinda forgot I had signed up to friend feed till someone wanted to be my friend last night.
It concerns me to have all my stuff in one place. Doesn't anyone else think it's an issue?
