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Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

fredwilson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:11:04 -0000

You got that right

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

engtech — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:45:03 -0000

Hi Fred,

I stuck a Twitter client into Friend Feed using a Firefox extension. This might be something you'd like. Cheers.

http://internetducttape.com...

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

fredwilson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:00:51 -0000

Yeah, I didn't love that either, but I've come to live with it

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

Robert Seidman — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:54:31 -0000

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!" :-)

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

Andy Gadiel — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:39:26 -0000

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.

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

jon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:37:42 -0000

actually this startup is listening to someone giving them current and future (great, free) publicity - not just an ordinary passionate user by any stretch

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:30:02 -0000

You are a hard man to please robert, but I've done it!

I can go to bed now

fred

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:03:02 -0000

Are you concerned?

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

jackson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:28:29 -0000

Just be sure to use your powers for good and not evil.

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loupaglia — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:46:05 -0000

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.

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

loupaglia — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:03:35 -0000

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?

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

Robert Seidman — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:07:56 -0000

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!

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:26:02 -0000

Agreed. Or at least a cool avatar like the one you hooked me up with

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

jeffisageek — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:27:05 -0000

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.

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

n8k99 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:37:07 -0000

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.

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:37:03 -0000

We'll see. But I think they'll ber friend to things like blogs, twitter, tumblr, flcikr, disqus, etc where content gets created

Fred

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

n8k99 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:34:40 -0000

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.

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

Daniel Spradau — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:23:57 -0000

Indeed. That is a reason why I fell in love with FriendFeed as well. They really listen.

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

loupaglia — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:12:24 -0000

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?

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Bwana — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:36:37 -0000

This is part of the reason why I'm hooked on FriendFeed as well. They're listening and doing.

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AlexHammer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:14 -0000

My Friendfeed time has come at the expense of Facebook. Anyone else finding the same thing?

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howardlindzon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:21:22 -0000

Bret taylor needs to log in and sign up at disqus so we can put a face to the name

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

Sam Davyson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:03:37 -0000

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...

Re: I Just Fell In Love With FriendFeed

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:43:42 -0000

i just added diqus to my friendfeed. let's see if this comment shows up