So, Is FriendFeed The Next Big Thing?
There’s a blogger fight going on this weekend, with a little lifestreaming application by the name of FriendFeed at its centre. FriendFeed lets you see your and your friends’ activity across various web services in a simple feed, and it also adds the ability to comment and tag any individual item. For some reason, several prominent bloggers decided that FriendFeed is the next Twitter; while I agree that connecting and organizing all of your web activity in one place might be the next big thing, I don’t see FriendFeed being exceptionally good at it.
You can see the latest batch of (some unnecessarily harsh) blogger comments in the discussion over at Techmeme.
I’ve tried out FriendFeed briefly before, and let’s just say I wasn’t overwhelmed with what it can do (you can see my feed here.) Similar services abound: see Profilactic (my coverage here, my profile here), SocialThing, or Correlate.us as examples.
All of these services do more or less the same thing. Louis Gray seems to think that the big difference between FriendFeed and everything else is the fact that you can comment on items or “love” them, but I don’t see what, exactly, are the benefits of these options. I can barely find time to comment on blog posts; why the hell would I comment on bits and pieces of my (or someone else’s) online activity? The fact that the option is there doesn’t exactly hurt, but at best I consider it a very minor advantage.
To be honest, I’m a little bit biased about the entire concept of lifestreaming. I have on my hard drive the outline of a project that would - in my opinion - do much more with this idea, but I haven’t had the time or the manpower to start it. In brief, I think that all the apps I’ve mentioned above, as well as others like them, don’t really help you organize your online life well enough; they’re just spewing it all out in a long, hard-to-follow string of events which are only interesting as a “what’s this guy up to right now” kind of thing, but quite pointless in the long run. Thus, no, I don’t think that FriendFeed is in any way revolutionary: it’s a nice application and it’s popular because it’s a little bit better than most of its competition, but I don’t see any disruptive capacity in it just yet.
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March 15th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
it is more like “lifestreaming” integrations being the next big thing, i seriously doubt you can pin just one option as the poster child as with microblogging = twitter.
I agree on the “it could be better” thing.
right now i have my sight on socialthing.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:38 am
You’re right we’re doing that kind of lifestream aggregation since nearly 2 years from now @ ziki.com.
Did you tried it ? It’s now much more than that
April 19th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Yeah, I agree the long stream makes it difficult to follow things. I discovered Spokeo a while ago, but I’m not too happy with it either: particularly the way it handled my Gmail contacts. (It imported my entire address book, which included everyone I’ve ever exchanged emails with that Gmail’s cookies pulled into my contacts, including a ton of random people I don’t even remember what I emailed for or know who they are.) I’m pretty displeased with the interface as well. Either way, be your own judge…and get on that idea of yours, it’s not doing any of us any good just sitting on your hard drive.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 11:41 pm
FriendFeed has some great social aspects. The comments and rating system is superb and really helps everyone that you subscribe to connect with one another. Another great feature is the recommendations of ‘friends of friends’. I think this is a fantastic way to get others out there and help build upon your social network in FriendFeed and the other services. To me, this is important because most services are letting you build upon your network, but only within that network. FriendFeed allows for portability and networking outside of itself. I’m absolutely in love with this connection and it’s the only service (thus far) that I’ve seen accomplish this and do it well.
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