DISQUS

Phil Glockner · 1 year ago

You do realize that, by blogging about FriendFeed, you now have a step in to the "FriendFeed-erati" bed, right?

Anyway, welcome to friendfeed step 2: advanced filtering. Step one, of course, is judicious use of the hide feature, and all that entails.

Step three is advanced use of the 'everyone' tab.

Step four is rooms.

Step five is.. step five is... don't talk about fight club.

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

As Scoble noted, feel free to see the activity I do on FriendFeed and try to find where I'm pushing the heck out of it. Did I aggressively promote FriendFeed earlier this year? Absolutely. And it turned out that it was the right thing to do as it raised awareness and attracted influential people like Robert Scoble to the bandwagon. Now that it's reached critical mass, I feel like I've accomplished what I set out to do.

Check my blog for how I talk about FriendFeed now versus in March and April. Now, I post "how tos" and tips, thanks to my having a good install base of listeners who do ask for advice. What you don't see is my saying FriendFeed will kill anything.

ianbetteridge · 1 year ago

But Louis - what *was* it you were setting out to do?

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Easy answers:

1) Bring awareness of FriendFeed to those not familiar.
2) Highlight benefits of FriendFeed to those who didn't understand how it was differentiated.
3) Help convert those people who didn't either find it valuable, or had initially dismissed it.

Now, it's clear that a good number of well-read evangelists much bigger than me like the service and can promote it. I'm already known for finding it valuable and for being active there. As a result, the benefits I, or the service, can get for promoting it outright have lessened. It's part of what I wrote about in the 5 stages of being an early adopter. In stage 3, people know I use it, and it is part of the background, like FireFox or Mac OS X, etc.

Scobleizer · 1 year ago

I've "liked" 3,220+ things over on FriendFeed in past couple of months. Only a small percentage have anything to do with FriendFeed. Take a look: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/likes

ianbetteridge · 1 year ago

Yes, Robert, but a small percentage of 3,220 is still a large number :)

But seriously, it's not you on your own: it's the combined effect of all the social media early adoptors, who like to talk about social media in general and who talk a *lot* about the latest social media - at the moment, that's FriendFeed. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it means that it makes FriendFeed a little tedious if you're not as dedicated.

But it's fine: I get the edited highlights on your blog. Your blog is like an executive summary of what you're talking about on FriendFeed these days - and that works much better for me :)

Dave Gray · 1 year ago

In some ways I agree. Dropping twitter from the stream will cut down significantly on the noise and as you say make it more useful. Mainly because you are left with more in depth material, as opposed to the - "eating dinner" twitter posts. But I would disagree with the idea of getting rid of people that are making conversations. But then I guess that depends on your idea as to what you want those conversations to be. I personally have not thought that these conversations were dominated by people talking predominantly about FF or twitter.

xero · 1 year ago

You nailed it. Scoble in particular has calmed down about FriendFeed since, so we can cut him some slack. I just think the Twitter staff must love all of the conversations centered around "what will replace twitter." They're just getting started really and everyone is tired of them and looking for a replacement. FF is fantastic if you use it like FriendFeed and not Twitter. The only noise I had on FF was Twitter, everything else was something I was at least 90% interested in.

Chris Nixon · 1 year ago

The "FriendFeed is better than Twitter" non-debate did get pretty boring but the conversation moved on. At the point of WWDC as I remember. It would have been nice to have a word filter for FriendFeed, but I don't think I would use it at the moment. The conversation is nice and balanced.

Christopher Harley · 1 year ago

I agree to a point. But bless the hearts of all those Twitteratti who have filled out the ranks in FFs early stages. Without their constant attention FF would have laid there like a robust Plurk. I'm glad that I have the likes of Calacanis, Laporte, Scoble, Gray, Ruebel, and Winer to follow. When the noise gets to be too much and the echo too loud, I'll cut them back a bit.

Rahsheen · 1 year ago

This actually would have worked a while ago, but I haven't really seen much talk evangelizing FriendFeed lately. Not only has following people like Scoble, Gray and J. Phil up there helped me figure out how to better USE FriendFeed, but it has linked me to people who are much more diversified in the things they Like.

konigsberg · 1 year ago

Yeah. I keep toggling adding and removing Louis Gray. Besides being the front line about FriendFeed, they're the front-line aggregators of much technology news, much of which is repeated on FF.