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Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder...
Since the site's acquisition by Facebook this summer, I have not talked much about my thoughts on the future of FriendFeed, aside from the initial response saying it was not "dead". There hasn't been a major compelling event to do so, but it keeps co...
Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder...
Since the site's acquisition by Facebook this summer, I have not talked much about my thoughts on the future of FriendFeed, aside from the initial response saying it was not "dead". There hasn't been a major compelling event to do so, but it keeps co...
Cadmus Filters Real Time Streams to Reduce Clutter
The more people and blogs you follow on social networks and through RSS, the more likely it is that you are going to see duplicate data, be it via retweets, forwards, or through many of your friends sending the latest viral videos or images. A new pr...
Gary Burd Exits Facebook Two Months After FriendFeed Acquisition
Following the August acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook, the site's loyal users are still waiting for news about whether the social network and aggregator has a future, or barring that, when elements of the site will start populating Facebook. But...
Find Similar People and Interests With Simler\'s Microblogging Platform
One of the most challenging issues with today's social networks is rapidly finding people who share the same interests. As you migrate from network to network, you can find commonalities between platforms, but the most likely route taken to gain a ba...
FriendFeed's Not Dead. While Not Clear, Its Future Could Be Very Big.
Monday's news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed for an undisclosed sum took many people by surprise, not the least of whom were the site's most-active users, many of whom have made the social sharing and aggregation platform their central nervous...
Podcast: TheSocialGeeks: FaceFriend or FriendBook?
In the latest edition of The Social Geeks, Chris Miller, Wayne Sutton, Jeff(isageek), Sarah Perez, Corvida Raven and I talk about the big news from yesterday of Facebook acquiring FriendFeed, and what impact this could have the community and your da...
Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated.
Alright Facebook. I didn't want it to be like this, so let me tell you in a way that you'll understand. You know how you started out as a program for nerdy college boys to rate the best ladies, find which ones were available, and see if there was a w...
Steven Hodson and I Talk FacebookFeed: Our Initial Reactions
In my small little world, the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed has been the equivalent of a social news tsunami. No sooner did the news break then did I get a swarm of phone calls looking for my response - with people asking if their data w...
Lunch 2.0 Highlights Video: Mozilla, FriendFeed and Kosmix
Lunch 2.0 with Kosmix, Mozilla and FriendFeedAs mentioned yesterday, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel featuring representatives from three forward-looking Web companies looking to push change and compete with established market leaders. You ...
Lunch 2.0 Panel With Mozilla, FriendFeed, Kosmix on UStream Today
Around 12:30 p.m. this afternoon, I will be sitting down with Anand Rajaraman, Co-Founder of Kosmix, Bret Taylor, Co-Founder of Friendfeed and Chris Beard, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer to talk about how these three small companies are driving c...
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For The Month Of July 2009
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is the eleventh edition of the monthly FriendFeed to follow member list. Louis Gray has done a superb job covering for me for the past three months, and has kept the tradition alive. Th...
Join Mozilla, FriendFeed and Kosmix for Lunch 2.0 on August 6th
On Thursday, August 6th, from 12:00PM - 2:00PM, I have the opportunity to sit down with Anand Rajaraman, Co-Founder of Kosmix, Bret Taylor, Co-Founder of Friendfeed and Chris Beard, Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer, for a lunchtime panel on how the...
PubSubHubbub: Real-Time Feeds and Real-Time Feedback Too?
Getting data from one place to another can never be too fast. Just a year or two ago, the speed of RSS was considered excellent, but now, with latency of RSS feeds getting to destinations such as Google Reader or other networks ranging from minutes t...
We Have Invites! Five Stages of Beta and Battling to Get Access
When launching a new service, entrepreneurs have a myriad of things that make them nervous. Maybe the product won't be seen as having value. Maybe competitive offerings are good enough. Maybe there are bugs that nobody has discovered yet. And sometim...
What Is This Real-Time Thing, And Where Is It Going?
The final panel at Friday's CrunchUp focused on the phenomenon of real-time, featuring a high-profile panel complete with representatives from Google, Microsoft, TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Seesmic, FriendFeed, Stanford University and a pair of venture cap...
FriendFeed Plans Features to Stem Conversation Flare-Ups
After a testy exchange with Leo Laporte during a taping of the Gillmor Gang last month, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch saw a boom of negative reactions across the Web, from pointed YouTube mashups, comments on TechCrunch, and a flurry of conversations ...
Lazyfeed Poised to Debut Real-time Personalized Blog Search
The overwhelming majority of attention and innovation in the world of real-time search in the last year has been paid to microblogging, with Twitter and FriendFeed making most of the headlines. But a new tool, set to debut in the next two days, calle...
Gmail Should be the Hub of Your Company's Social Media Strategy
Back in March, I talked about how you can cleanly separate personal and work social media personalities, and suggested a list of tools that I use to make sure I don't blur the two. But as I talk with companies getting started in the big world of soci...
FriendFeed Debuts Real-Time Search Spanning 50+ Social Sites
More than a simple aggregation tool and social network, FriendFeed has grown to be one of the deepest social databases on the Web, taking in information from more than 50 different social sites, including blogs, status updates, photos, presentations ...
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For June 2009
Tenth Edition Of a Monthly Series (combined with Mike Fruchter's efforts)New registrants of any social network can no doubt find the quest to find interesting people and friends a challenge. That's why Twitter built a manually-selected Suggested User...
The Changing Subscriber Definition Points to Potential Over Actual
The dust has not yet fully settled on yesterday's news that RSS feed circulation numbers around the Web spiked, thanks to a new tie-up between FeedBurner and FriendFeed that essentially counted social networking subscriptions as equal to those who si...
FriendFeed Sneaks Into My RSS Stats And Hits The Big Red Button
It's tempting to go back the age-old line of there being lies, damn lies, and statistics. On the Web, where practically everything is measured and big numbers are almost always better, counting up one's followers, friends, subscribers or authority is...
FFundercats Podcast Episode 32: Things That Make You Go Bing
In April, we had the opportunity to first take part in the epic whirlwind of social media fun that is the FFundercats, FFundercats, a project undertaken by Josh Haley and Johnny Worthington, who have teamed up to create a fun weekly show centered aro...
Podcast: Incidental Interview on #BlameDrewsCancer, More
Sheryl Breuker, who we recently featured in the 10 FriendFeeders to follow for May post, spoke with me yesterday for her Incidental Interviews series, and unlike many other podcasts I've done, she started off not by talking about every service we use...
The Rumors Are True - I Bought Robert Scoble's BMW
What Was Once Scoble's... Is Now MineI don't consider myself a car person - and on both occasions where I have had to replace my car, it has been only after a mechanical problem's repair costs look to far outstrip the true value of the vehicle. That ...
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For May 2009
Ninth Edition Of a Monthly Series (combined with Mike Fruchter's efforts)FriendFeed would simply be a quiet network featuring a mess of links and no interaction if it were not for the "Friend" portion of the service's name. With hundreds of thousands...
Today's Real-Time Web Makes Blogging and RSS Seem "Too Slow"
Thursday evening, I had the opportunity to attend one of the semi-regular open houses held at FriendFeed headquarters in Mountain View. (See pictures from Brian Solis, who also attended) While on other occasions, I may have taken the chance to pick t...
