I have tried, pretty successfully to avoid all the Web 2.0 social networking lovefest. Twitter, Facebook, blah, blah, blah. But...FriendFeed is going.to.suck.me.in. And it will actually make some of those other service (especially Twitter) much more useful to me.
Damn you, Fred Wilson!
P.S. in honor of you converting me, to pay homage I signed up for Disqus but found its process to add a picture so freaking bad and cumbersome that I gave up and am sticking with the generic unverified commenting!
loupaglia
· 1 year ago
Robert: What did you find hard about the image upload? Either my tolerance for bad usability has gone up or I found it easy to do. Upload, center the portion of the image you want in the square, done?
Robert Seidman
· 1 year ago
do you see how Fred's only got one corner of his actual avatar instead of shrinking down the whole thing. When I tried to find one quarter of my head that I loved, I couldn't. Not that I love the whole package either mind you, but what I expected to be able to do was basically easily be able to get my WHOLE face in the picture. I couldn't. So I resized. And I still couldn't. So I resized again, and I still couldn't. Then I said..."ahhhhhh screw this!" :-)
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I didn't love that either, but I've come to live with it
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
You are a hard man to please robert, but I've done it!
I can go to bed now
fred
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
Bret taylor needs to log in and sign up at disqus so we can put a face to the name
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Agreed. Or at least a cool avatar like the one you hooked me up with
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
i just added diqus to my friendfeed. let's see if this comment shows up
Sam Davyson
· 1 year ago
FriendFeed is brilliant. Although highly self referential at this point in time... I also worry that as more people spend more time on FriendFeed as oppose to the "feeder" sites that FriendFeed aggregates then FriendFeed will have less and less content...
AlexHammer
· 1 year ago
My Friendfeed time has come at the expense of Facebook. Anyone else finding the same thing?
n8k99
· 1 year ago
facebook is a nice little repository to let things end up, and allows other people to follow along, however most of my digital life is outside the walls of their platform. friendfeed may get more of my feed (google) reader time.
Bwana
· 1 year ago
This is part of the reason why I'm hooked on FriendFeed as well. They're listening and doing.
loupaglia
· 1 year ago
absolutely, I commented somewhere last night how impressive the turnaround was on this piece of functionality. it will be interested to see if FriendFeed ultimately is Twitter friend or Twitter foe. Just like with Facebook, where you do draw line of being a facilitator of integrating best-of-breed offerings into an aggregated solution and deciding to offering your own best-of-breed service?
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
We'll see. But I think they'll ber friend to things like blogs, twitter, tumblr, flcikr, disqus, etc where content gets created
Fred
loupaglia
· 1 year ago
Agree, that is where it will start. But there is that fine line between aggregation and ownership, and more importantly, where is the stronger monetization vehicles. Typically it has been with the one that has control or dominates their space (i.e. Google in search). I certainly agree early on that FriendFeed needs to be the Switzerland of social aggregation. Time will tell as to whether they need to expand to "own" and not just aggregate a certain category.
I fully realize the response to this comment will be "is not aggregating social and commentary flow its own category to own?" Perhaps.
Daniel Spradau
· 1 year ago
Indeed. That is a reason why I fell in love with FriendFeed as well. They really listen.
n8k99
· 1 year ago
i really have fallen for friendfeed in the last 24 hours, it seems so obvious now that they have the @reply enabled- here's hoping that the rest of your suggestions make it into the codebase.
jeffisageek
· 1 year ago
like the rest I too have found myself using friendfeed more and more...its hard not to when they are adding new features and seem to be listening to the users.
jackson
· 1 year ago
Just be sure to use your powers for good and not evil.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Are you concerned?
jon
· 1 year ago
actually this startup is listening to someone giving them current and future (great, free) publicity - not just an ordinary passionate user by any stretch
Andy Gadiel
· 1 year ago
I sent FriendFeed an email last night and they replied within an hour, at about 12:30am.
This is the kind of stuff that makes startups successful. A passion for their product and the motivation to stay on top of the inbound correspondences at any hour of the day. Sure as time goes by the founders will settle into a work routine and possibly life 'normal hours', but the initial incentive to get the product vision pushed ahead at all costs "while the world sleeps" is what really fuels innovation in small companies.
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
You got that right
engtech
· 1 year ago
Hi Fred,
I stuck a Twitter client into Friend Feed using a Firefox extension. This might be something you'd like. Cheers.
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Damn you, Fred Wilson!
P.S. in honor of you converting me, to pay homage I signed up for Disqus but found its process to add a picture so freaking bad and cumbersome that I gave up and am sticking with the generic unverified commenting!
I can go to bed now
fred
Fred
I fully realize the response to this comment will be "is not aggregating social and commentary flow its own category to own?" Perhaps.
This is the kind of stuff that makes startups successful. A passion for their product and the motivation to stay on top of the inbound correspondences at any hour of the day. Sure as time goes by the founders will settle into a work routine and possibly life 'normal hours', but the initial incentive to get the product vision pushed ahead at all costs "while the world sleeps" is what really fuels innovation in small companies.
I stuck a Twitter client into Friend Feed using a Firefox extension. This might be something you'd like. Cheers.
http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/27/greasemo...