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New FriendFeed Leaves Beta

arnoldzafra — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:51:36 +0000

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. continued…

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How Do You Like the New Friendfeed?

arnoldzafra — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:47:42 +0000

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. continued…

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FriendFeed Goes International, Partially

arnoldzafra — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:16:57 +0000

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. continued…

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FriendFeed Gets Noisier with IM Notification Features

arnoldzafra — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:01:47 +0000

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. continued…

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FriendFeed Makes Friends with Twitter

arnoldzafra — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:09:13 +0000

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? continued…

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FriendFeed Gives Us Another Reason to Procastinate More – Live Feed

arnoldzafra — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:30:11 +0000

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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FriendFeed Rolls Out New Interface, Reduces Feed Noise As Well

arnoldzafra — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:49:39 +0000

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. continued…

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FriendFeed Preps a New Design

arnoldzafra — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:29:49 +0000

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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The True Test for FriendFeed: Facebook Comments

nickoneill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:01:59 +0000

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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RotorBlog Podcast #3: FriendFeed apps and Filtrbox – Media Monitoring Service

marisdagis — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:49:08 +0000

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Covering hottest FriendFeed tools like FriendFeed SPY, FF to Go and many more. You can check for full list of apps here.

Check out also United Cats, Digg Recommendation Engine, FanRanker, QuotesDaddy, ThirtySpace and Filtrbox – media monitoring service for savvy professionals

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FriendFeed Starts Sucking Up the Conversation

nickoneill — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:18:01 +0000

If you avoided the grid for the weekend you probably missed out on a conversation going on yesterday about the default users recommended when you start FriendFeed. Then today a new conversation began about how FriendFeed is sucking away the conversation from blogs. Allen Stern suggests that commenting traffic to a blog can generate upwards of $100,000.

Losing out on these comments is a big deal. It has gone so far as reducing some bloggers (like Jeremiah Owyang) overall output. While I agree that some of my comments are going to FriendFeed, most of the comments on FriendFeed are not from people that were already commenting on my blog. As long as the users on FriendFeed have to visit my blog, there’s no substantial problem.

There appears to be a larger problem at hand though: thought leaders are reaching their conversational threshold. I for instance have a number of conversations taking place on Plurk and FriendFeed. Add in Twitter and recently launched Identi.ca and you are facing a serious issue. We now need to choose where to have the conversation and with conversations happening all over the place it is simply no longer sustainable to talk everywhere.

FriendFeed clearly acts as a solution to the noise though and my guess is that we will begin to see much more activity taking place on the site. I for one have now begun to actively participate in the FriendFeed conversation. While the conversation may be shifting it is still hard to monitor all of it though. I am now using Ping.fm to post to all the sites I’m active on. This still doesn’t solve the problem of reading comments to my posts though.

FriendFeed actively imports comments from Twitter but they have yet to do the same for other sites. Once I can manage all the conversation in one place, my conversational overload will finally be solved. For now it looks like I’m just going to have to be part of the conversation in one more place. Have you noticed the conversation shift to FriendFeed? Are you having conversational overload?

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FriendFeed Launches for iPhone, Bloggers Rejoice

nickoneill — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:24:46 +0000

Last night FriendFeed announced a new version of their site that is optimized for the iPhone. Immediately there were postings around the web about the update rejoicing that finally the site is easily accessible by all those iPhone addicts. The FriendFeed buzz has been increasing over the past few weeks and based on the Alexa traffic data, it appears that the buzz is paying off for the company.

I’ve become more active on the site but I’ve also noticed that it is practically impossible to follow everything that is going on. There is simply too much noise. Facebook has been working to resolved this problem by generating an automated filter. FriendFeed also has a filter which displays the most popular items over a given period of time but it appears to be based on the volume of comments posted on a given item.

I’m sure this new version will be extremely popular. After sitting next to Robert Scoble on a train back from New York City and seeing him obsessing over FriendFeed on iPhone, I know at least one person who will be satisfied with this new feature. Are you using FriendFeed regularly? Have you had a chance to check out the new iPhone version of the site?

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Gridgit is a Social Portal for Your Online Profile

arnoldzafra — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:58:33 +0000

I was keen on making the title of this as something like, “Gridjit Marries your Twitter and Friendfeed” but decided not to push it since Gridjit is planning to include more social networks later on. And besides its tagline is “social portal for your web universe”. So, that pretty sums up what Gridjit does and aims to do. continued…

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FriendFeed Adds Filtering

nickoneill — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:03:02 +0000

Last night FriendFeed announced that there are now filtering features that help users find the best posts from within your feed. Just yesterday I wrote about how social media needs filter and this is clearly a step in that direction. Facebook is currently the only other site that I know of that offers extensive filtering features. Just as with Facebook though there is very little user control for what is filtered and what isn’t.

Instead, the new filtering feature simply pulls up the feed items that received the most comments in the past day, week and month from people that you are connected to. The one problem I noticed is that popular stories that are popular today also fall into the most popular stories of the week and month. Rather than making a higher cutoff for popular stories, FriendFeed simply adds more stories for you to look through.

While I think this is a step in the right direction, social media filtering still has a long way to go before we can effectively cut through all the noise. It is clear that social relevance will be one of the most important things but aside from that, it’s anybody’s guess as to what will make filtering more effective. Message overload may just be a part of life in this digital age.

Do you know of any other effective social media filtering tools?

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Disqus "Out Opened" My Comments!

nickoneill — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:00:45 +0000

I have previously been critical of Disqus, the blog commenting platform. My main criticism of the platform is the inability to store comment data on my own servers granting Disqus complete ownership of my site’s comment data. Yesterday I watched an interview between Robert Scoble and the Disqus CEO in which he stated that they have plans to make changes which give the ownership back to the blog owners.

Over the past few days I have been spending more time experimenting with FriendFeed given Twitter’s downtime. The service has been growing on me and one thing that I’ve noticed is that when people post a comment on my blog it doesn’t show up in FriendFeed but when they post a comment on Disqus it does because Disqus is a supported service on the site. While I won’t spend time discussing why I now use FriendFeed in this post, the one thing I will say is that I enjoy conversing with this small hyper-connected group of individuals who I barely know aside from the comments we share on a daily basis.

Not having peoples’ comments show up in FriendFeed means a lost opportunity for promotion of my site. As such I am slowly being forced into integrating Disqus into my blog. While I haven’t made the change yet, I’m extremely likely to make the shift when the new version of the platform is released. While FriendFeed is one of the few sites that provide support for Disqus postings, my guess is that this trend will continue and we could soon see integration on sites like Facebook which also provide newsfeed functionality.

While Disqus is still an extremely early-stage service, it appears that they are gaining substantial traction and slowly one blog after the other that I use is integrating it into their site. I’m being a resistor to change because I think it will help improve the service for the time being. Additionally, the first version of a product tends to have a number of flaws (take the iPhone for example).

The most interesting thing about Disqus is that the benefits could soon outweigh the cons and the company will have succeeded in “out opening” my blog comments. It’s similar to the battle taking place between OpenSocial and Facebook but on a much smaller scale. Disqus is growing one blog at a time rather than one social network at a time. I can envision similar functionality from utilities on Facebook and other social networks including image uploading and wall postings.

The second that those features are opened on social networks is the exact moment that FriendFeed will have “out opened” social networks but that conversation should be saved for another time. For now, I have come to realize that the Disqus will soon succeed at forcing me on to their platform.Ã‚ I have no other option.

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