Comments on: FriendFeed- The Hidden Conversation

By: Training An Older Dog

Training An Older Dog — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:36:07 +0000

One thing I love about gReader is I am notified of new content and comments. I feel like if I step away from FF (or Twitter for that matter) I miss a lot. gReader lets me catch up.

By: Training An Older Dog

Training An Older Dog — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:36:07 +0000

One thing I love about gReader is I am notified of new content and comments. I feel like if I step away from FF (or Twitter for that matter) I miss a lot. gReader lets me catch up.

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By: Connie Crosby

Connie Crosby — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:27:55 +0000

I started a discussion with colleagues in FriendFeed to help me understand. My fave space there is the rooms, where we can have a conversation without having to follow each other as on Twitter. They pointed out other features not readily apparent to me, such as the ability to hide types of posts of others, and the “best of day/week/month” in the top right corner. All helpful.

I love twitter, but it is real-time (synchronous) discussion. FriendFeed is asynchronous (allows you to post in the same conversation at different times, as with a forum) so this helps manage your time better, you don’t have to always have it “on”.

I’m still learning my way around, but interested in what distinguished FriendFeed from the others.

Cheers,
Connie

By: Roger Kondrat

Roger Kondrat — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:54:09 +0000

Hi Chris

I wrote a related article but I focused more on where FF was going. Perhaps it adds value to your discussion.

http://tinyurl.com/5l6c2s

By: chrisbrogan

chrisbrogan — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:52:19 +0000

And of course, you can see below these comments that FriendFeed folks are talking about it too, right?

By: Ken Stewart

Ken Stewart — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:15:05 +0000

FriendFeed is great for me to create 1 stream for everything I do, as that “everything” grows. However, I am presently in a mode of expunging some of my less than necessary feeds. For instance, I had really enjoyed Plurk, but have found that to be just another conversation to “keep up with” so the fun aspect went out the door.

My next goal is fine-tuning and exploring FriendFeed to more quickly get to the “gems” would be nice.

Additionally, I am beginning to wonder about tracking views on my profile and what people are interested in within my stream. This would be wonderful feedback as to where content may or may not be seeing some pick-up…

If anyone has any tips in that area, I would most certainly welcome them…

By: Gary S. Walter

Gary S. Walter — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:00:50 +0000

Great idea @thaumata – I think doing what you’re doing, with the addition of your Twitter stream and maybe the feed from your primary blog might be a nice touch too.

There are plenty of tools (greasemonkey scripts and FF addons) out there that others can use to limit your stream (see http://internetductape.com).

By: thaumata

thaumata — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:25:08 +0000

I’m new to friendfeed, and although my initial reaction was, “this is useful and cool,” it was only an hour or so before I realized I was probably flooding people with content. I post often, on many sites, and the fact is that some people just don’t care what I did on my family vacation.

In the end, I created a Tumblr account and only that goes through FF. Instead of feeding every little stream in there automatically, I curate it by hand, bringing people the best I have to offer, with links to find more if they are so inclined.

I kind of wish everyone would do this. I understand that you really do find a gem in the mess sometimes, but mostly I think we’d all do better to work to reduce the feedback-echo that currently exists on the web.