Friendfeed - next generation or a blast from the past?

Wednesday, March 19. 2008

Friendfeed - next generation or a blast from the past?

Fred Wilson notes, re Friendfeed and the new new forum:

But it means I have to log into FriendFeed every day now and check out what people are saying and weigh in. Which I've been doing in the past couple weeks. And that increases the chances that I'll comment on someone else's posts at FriendFeed.

So now, in addition to this blog, my tumblog, and twitter, I have to pay attention to whats' going on in FriendFeed. So it's gone from being an aggregator of attention to a demander of attention. Good for them. That's the way to play the game on the web.

But I would like to see them get those comments portable in some way. Or I'd like to see someone aggregate those comments.

I love the last line's implications - I need another aggregator to aggregate the stuff this aggregator is aggregating so I don't have to visit yet another website

Fred also quotes Umair Haque:

Umair, who is so right so often, said:

The real point is: Friendfeed is a next-gen, open version of Facebook's social feed.

Sorry guys, I'm being a bit slow here - which bit of the "yet-another-proprietary-service-that-I-have-to-have-an-identity-and-a-social-graph-in" is the next-gen, open version here?

Or is it that it pumps out stuff in that hate-object of the Web 2.0 faithful, email?

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The Broadstuff Friendfee...I mean Goggle+ Review
Had a look at Google+ reviews briefly, reminds me of Friendfeed but as it would be done by guys whose previous successes were Buzz and Wave. Anyway a lot of the A listers seem to be spouting the same shill saying much the same as they did about Friendfeed

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it's step in the next direction because it recognizes that i don't want to use one monolithic service for everything social.

i can use flickr for photos, tumblr for short form blogging, typepad for long form blogging, twitter for microblogging, youtube for videoblogging, etc

that in and of itself is a step forward.

fred

#1 fred wilson (Homepage) on 2008-03-20 06:31 (Reply)

But Fred, all those other services have been around quite awhile.

And whats the effective difference between this one aggregating all that stuff and wanting Yet Another Social Network set up within its walls to use it, and A Previous Monolith That Cannot Be Mentioned?

The question that really needs answering is "where are you going to comment". If its not in FriendFeed, then its a pass though as I use it - aggregate and pump to email.

And if it is in Friendfeed then all these other systems - Blogs, Twitter etc - dry up.

But the problem Friendfeed then has is it then kills itself, because those are its sources.

#2 alan p on 2008-03-20 08:25 (Reply)

check out my post today

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/ten-things-id-l.html

feature request #6 might be a solution

fred

#3 fred wilson (Homepage) on 2008-03-22 02:15 (Reply)

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