One successful newly launched start-up is FriendFeed, a site which aggregates your activity on several social networks. Sounds cool? Fairly, but it has all been done before.
Duncan Riley of TechCrunch shares my shock that they have raised $5,000,000 and Michael Arrington believes they are ‘going through a twitter moment’. The thing is, in the TechCrunch article they list a list of vague competitors when half a dozen near-identical sites have come before it.
Before FriendFeed, we had SuprGlu (or at least I did, fantastic site!), then Profilactic and then Ziki!
Why is such an unoriginal idea loved so much? Sure, it has a nice design (well a simple one anyway) but to be honest, I just don’t get it. Please explain!
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I thought pretty much the same thing today but worded it slightly differently: http://teabass.com/is-friendfeed-the-next-google/
Me too! I think friendfeed is overkill.
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Te be exact, Ziki was there even before profilactic. Like you i don’t get it about friendfeed. May be the fact that they announced funding…
Well, obviously I disagree with both you and the commenters! The thing is that FriendFeed is all about participation. It’s a great place to see what your friends are reading in their RSS reader, what they just dugg, bookmarked, or twittered, and more. But it’s not just “seeing” these things – you interact with them!
Like you can comment on any posted item and those comments can be turned into a tweet to that person too. You can “like” items and these comments and likes can all be integrated into your WP blog via the new FF/WP plugin. If you install Disqus commenting on your blog, you can have the service track those as well, along with a million other web 20 services.
But then again, if you’re not an active participant in these services, then you won’t know the true joy of FF. It’s fun, it’s addictive, it’s great. But it’s not for passive users.
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