Posts Tagged ‘FriendFeed’

So finally, the new Friendfeed interface has been rolled out to the Friendfeed site. This means that starting today, prepare yourself to be “mesmerized” by the new FriendFeed home page design which has been in beta mode for the past couple of weeks. Read more

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Aside from Twitter and Facebook, the next big thing in the social networking/web 2.0/social media world is Friendfeed. There was even a time when Friendfeed and Twitter have been pitted against each other. But for quite some time now, Friendfeed has been pretty silent while Twitter continues its rampage. Until now. It looks like Friendfeed is ready to battle again with a new interface currently in beta. And guess what, the new Friendfeed interface is more like Twitter now. Read more

You’d know when an online service is doing great and is bound for famedom when it becomes multi-lingual. Such as is the case of FriendFeed which just announced that everybody’s beginning to be the top choice lifestreaming service is now available in five more other languages. Aside from the default English, you can now set your FriendFeed account into German, French, Spanish, Japanese and simplified Chinese. Read more

If the real-time update features which was recently rolled out by FriendFeed was not enough to give you updated of your FriendFeed updates, then you might actually like FriendFeed newest feature on making its presence felt to members – FriendFeed IM Notifications. This new feature enables you to receive notification when someone posts a comment on your FriendFeed updates or when new posts are posted on your FriendFeed updates. Read more

This new feature that was just rolled out by FriendFeed may delight either Twitter and FriendFeed users or annoy them instead. FriendFeed has enabled a new function that will let you to automatically posts all your FriendFeed updates in their entirety to your Twitter timeline. How cool or uncool can that be? Read more

Here are some more reason to slack on our day job, procastinate and enjoy what our Friendfeed friend’s are doing in real time. Friendfeed has just rolled out a new feature which gives us real-time view of our Friendfeed friends’ updates. Utilizing a technique that it calls “long polling” which practically eliminates to send a request for Friendfeed to update.

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We’ve given you a preview of the new FriendFeed interface design which was being tested by FriendFeed during our previous post. Lucky for FriendFeed their new interface design was well received by users and did not receive any objections or whatsoever. Not unlike the recently implemented Facebook interface design. And so, with not too much hype and buzz, FriendFeed has shifted to its new look. Read more

Finally, FriendFeed is getting a much needed redesign. It’s ages since FriendFeed has been launched and we’re glad it has been making waves and is now becoming everybody’s favorite lifestreaming/aggregator service. And with its new design, we expect more users to come into the FriendFeed fold. And it might also serve as a warning to the Big “T”.

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Last month Facebook released the first version of mini-feed comments. I claimed that it was another step for Facebook toward FriendFeed functionality. Apparently not enough people were commenting though because Facebook has since made a slight change as MG Siegler pointed out yesterday. Rather than displaying a plus sign which potentially didn’t signify “comments” for some users, so Facebook has decided to go ahead and spell it out.

Ultimately this is an extremely small change but if Facebook users aren’t commenting on mini-feed stories, perhaps the concept of FriendFeed is just a bunch of Silicon Valley hype. Personally, I think it’s a little hype combined with great functionality. I think what Facebook is instead missing is comments from their main feed. Most users don’t spend a lot of time navigating their friends mini-feeds (as far as I know).

Conversely when a user first logs into Facebook the first thing they see is newsfeed items. Rather than going to a user’s profile and posting on their wall about a news story, it would be easier simply to comment directly from within a news item. Even with good design, it may be that users simply don’t want to comment on each others’ news stories. If that’s the case, FriendFeed is officially a bunch of hype and will remain limited to an extremely small group of users.

I don’t think that’s the case though. Do you think FriendFeed is more hype then actually being useful? Are you a regular FriendFeed user? Do you comment on peoples’ mini-feeds in Facebook?

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