…saving the planet. Count that among the many talents attributed to friendfeed these days, besides the tag of “today’s twitter”. Anyways, thought this would be a good follow-up post to my original 5 reasons to be on friendfeed post. Looks like there’s a fair amount of interest in this space over the past few weeks as is obvious in the tech blogosphere.
As I cited 5 reasons to be on friendfeed, I pointed out the fact that it lacks just one killer feature which is 2-way communication between friendfeed and the services it pulls in.
One of the things that would need to be done is 2-way updates. Right now, when you update a communication thread it only resides within the post, but what’d be useful is if I comment on a blog post or a tweet (in FriendFeed), if the update gets translated to the original site as well. Feasible?
Guess what? There has been some improvement in this space as friendfeed now allows at least one of the many services it supports (twitter) to talk back to the native service from friendfeed itself. So, when you comment on a twitter import on friendfeed, you’ll now be given the option to both (a) comment on friendfeed about the tweet, and (b) tweet back from friendfeed to the person you’re responding to. Sweet!
Trends in FriendFeed
* Comments on FriendFeed
Speaking of commenting on friendfeed, I’ve noticed an interesting development over the past week – the # of comments one sees on friend feed is more than the comments one is likely to see at the site from where these items are being imported. So, rather than leave a comment on the original site like twitter or your blog, you find tons of comments being left on friendfeed like this one here
Why? IMO, Friendfeed has somehow mastered “the art of simple” (a la Twitter) and makes commenting on items and “liking” specific items super-easy like online conversation for Dummies!
* Different rivers, two oceans
Interestingly, my usage of Facebook is also reducing because, I’ve now liberated the feed from inside of a single service (even though I was feeding it most of the services I feed FriendFeed). So, what this now enables me to do is share this friendfeed with my family back home or with friends who don’t have a Facebook account. Also, given my enhanced usage levels, I’m more comfortable twittering and sharing videos and music much more regularly on friendfeed than on other services.
There may be a stream of different content sources (like twitter, iLike, etc…) but I feed them into two sites currently – Facebook & Friendfeed. So, I continue doing what I do on those various sources and I find them reflected on the feeds of both these services. This is definitely the start of a much more engaging conversation with our many “friends” in life, no matter where they reside.
Stay tuned for more thoughts on the future of the feed. I just read a great piece in the Economist. In the meanwhile, if you’d like to stay tuned to my lifestream, please follow me at FriendFeed. And, if you’ve an account, add me as a friend.
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