After trying to recreate the Friendfeed experience in other social networks, I've realized it's going to be very hard to do. Facebook is slow and clogs up with notifications. It's designed for a slower pace. Google Plus doesn't scale out to multiple interests of a similar group. Again, notifications are an issue there. Twitter is fast but public.
Iván Abrego,
Stephen Mack,
That one guy. Bren.,
Steven Perez,
Mike Nencetti,
sofarsoShawn,
Kristin of Two Everything,
John (bird whisperer),
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Zu from AOD,
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DvD,
akifbey,
Jenny H.,
CW,
Big Joe Silenced,
Laura (Goldie),
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Spidra Webster,
Technodad,
OCoG of FF, Jimminy,
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Ahmet Yükseltürk,
Corinne L,
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WoH: Professor MOTHRA,
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Groups, My Discussions, hides, Best of, quick interface that rolls. Come on, who is doing this now?
- Eric @ CS Techcast
FriendFeed is all about the people
- Iain Baker
^^ YES
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
[disclaimer: I work for FB] I've found that Facebook can be tweaked to produce a similar experience. (turn off most notifications first). Groups work well. "My Discussions" can be replaced by the remaining notifications -- that's usually the first thing I look at when I log onto Facebook. (New activity on posts that you comment on will show as a notification). We'll launch posts search soon (already announced) so you'll be able to find "posts I commented on".
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, the biggest issue for me, wasn't anything to do with notifications. But the lack of real-time bubble-prioritization. I was even having to refresh the page to get updates to comments even though I know you guys have real-time commenting now. It just was super slow.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
Tudor, Facebook is a fine product and I'd like to tune it further.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I like FF ability to cross-post to multiple groups. I never felt comfortable with FB's group system, it seemed so separate.
- Heather
Cross-posting is one of the very cool features of friendfeed. And being able to DM multiple people. One thing it doesn't have is @mentioning people in comments, though. That's kind of a cool Facebook feature.
- Laura Norvig
Woah, pepyatka does have great similarities indeed! We should make a chart based on a poll for kicks see how people see a need to keep coming back here. I adore the way search works. Again, it's the people that makes it exceptionally and exponentially more valuable. Such a tight system wouldn't work without the willingness of the participants to pursue, like I often do albeit my longtime habit of not directly posting on the service, older posts and entries I may have missed based on specific parameters (like today where I went for what got over 50 likes for 2 years worth of posts and that I missed, interacted with by FOAFs).
- Zu from AOD