Lists is a major step forward from what people are saying. But until Twitter offers me some way to particpate in conversations, rather than shouting randomly at people, it makes a poor replacement for FriendFeed.
Similarly Facebook allows me to interact with friends and family. I can't use it the way I use FriendFeed because then I would swamp these people with stuff they have no interest in.
To me these services aren't even competing, never mind mutually exclusive.
manielse
· 2 months ago
Lists are a step forward but still done wrong slightly wrong IMO. I'm glad that I can follow someone's list such as Scoble but if I follow someone that he does and a few more lists, it's just more duplicate noise. Now, if Twitter made public Lists around topics (*hint* *hint* as it could also solve some hashtag issues @ev) then you really add a powerful vehicle that Twitter lacks (but FF has with Groups). Put it's flow UI structure is still flawed when it comes to a cohesive conversation between more than two people.
Agreed on the FB comment as well. I purposely only post most of my link shares and such to a Box on my Wall as the more personal and private group there would kill me for spamming their wall with technical news. For some reason they don't mind Farmville noise but don't want quality technical stuff (go figure).
manielse
· 2 months ago
I don't think its wrong for him to do the interview. Robert clearly cares about the community and he has the pull to make the interview happen and I for one deeply appreciate that. Doing the interview can in some ways be viewed as his transformation away from the "dead" service while allowing Paul a vehicle to explain to us what the future really looks like for FriendFeed. Like many acquisitions, the community is confused and not fully committed to the idea of a Facebook ported assimilation.
However, my personal view is clear. I will continue to use Friendfeed until either a better service comes along or they shut it down. Right now, I don't see Facebook being that future service as I use that very differently. That being said, the Friendfeed team is full of smart talented people who may have a way to making the two worlds not feel like they are culturally colliding but rather allows the consumer to have multiple persona's (and I don't mean two accounts) that can somehow live in harmony with one another.
Scobleizer
· 2 months ago
The real reason I'm trying to interview Paul is now he is a key engineer on the Facebook team. That means he has deep insights into where Facebook and FriendFeed are going.
Scobleizer
· 2 months ago
Thanks for the post. More than that I need to be places where geeks congregate but there's a necessary other condition for the kind of thing I do: those places MUST be growing in size. Because FriendFeed probably won't see new features the geeks are leaving here and will in droves as Twitter rolls out a ton of new features over next eight weeks. Facebook and Twitter made a search deal today with Bing. Google will soon follow. That will bring even more attention to Twitter and Facebook and less attention to FriendFeed.
brlewis
· 2 months ago
In that case it makes sense for you to do the interview. You'll get growth information straight from the source, and know where to go from there. I bet he won't speculate about future growth, not even near-term, since that's not his style.
P.S. Don't thank me too much for this post. I'm already planning abuse for next week. :-)
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Similarly Facebook allows me to interact with friends and family. I can't use it the way I use FriendFeed because then I would swamp these people with stuff they have no interest in.
To me these services aren't even competing, never mind mutually exclusive.
Agreed on the FB comment as well. I purposely only post most of my link shares and such to a Box on my Wall as the more personal and private group there would kill me for spamming their wall with technical news. For some reason they don't mind Farmville noise but don't want quality technical stuff (go figure).
However, my personal view is clear. I will continue to use Friendfeed until either a better service comes along or they shut it down. Right now, I don't see Facebook being that future service as I use that very differently. That being said, the Friendfeed team is full of smart talented people who may have a way to making the two worlds not feel like they are culturally colliding but rather allows the consumer to have multiple persona's (and I don't mean two accounts) that can somehow live in harmony with one another.
P.S. Don't thank me too much for this post. I'm already planning abuse for next week. :-)