Comments on: Mainstreaming of FriendFeed http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/14/mainstreaming-of-friendfeed/ Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul J. http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/14/mainstreaming-of-friendfeed/comment-page-1/#comment-241289 Paul J. Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:17:35 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/14/mainstreaming-of-friendfeed/#comment-241289 I totally concur with you on this one, specifically with your comment about standing in a room and getting shouted at from all sides. I am reaching my saturation point when it comes to social networks. Although I enjoy the interaction via Facebook, Twitter, etc. I am getting frustrated by the "emptiness" of it all. It's so much more fulfilling to simply go out and grab a beer with someone. That's social networking at its finest. Social networks are so far away from this and are becoming ever more like going to that bar alone without knowing anyone there. You can work hard at meeting people and deriving value, but it's just too much work. I totally concur with you on this one, specifically with your comment about standing in a room and getting shouted at from all sides. I am reaching my saturation point when it comes to social networks. Although I enjoy the interaction via Facebook, Twitter, etc. I am getting frustrated by the “emptiness” of it all. It’s so much more fulfilling to simply go out and grab a beer with someone. That’s social networking at its finest. Social networks are so far away from this and are becoming ever more like going to that bar alone without knowing anyone there. You can work hard at meeting people and deriving value, but it’s just too much work.

]]> By: Lou Paglia http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/14/mainstreaming-of-friendfeed/comment-page-1/#comment-241110 Lou Paglia Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:33:39 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/14/mainstreaming-of-friendfeed/#comment-241110 Jeff: Great post. I completely agree. I've often commented that I'm a bit social'd out with the emergence of all these new, shiny applications. I, too, think FriendFeed is pretty cool. And it is useful to aggregate all of the sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr etc in one place. However, I agree with your points, the people out there are the same people I'm following in their blogs via RSS in my reader or their twitter streams. And the real interesting thing is most of those people are top bloggers, host their own installs and have a very robust site that packages up all of their streams anyway in their sidebars. So in all this is just bundling it up nicely. There is a long way to go in extracting commercial value from the data. And quite honestly, anyone can be competitive there and do that just by pulling the RSS feeds in from various locations. Time will tell as always. In the meantime, I have yet another site to look into and see who is connecting with me and who I would like to connect with. And finally, why do I continue to want to call this new toy FeedFriend? Jeff: Great post. I completely agree. I’ve often commented that I’m a bit social’d out with the emergence of all these new, shiny applications. I, too, think FriendFeed is pretty cool. And it is useful to aggregate all of the sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr etc in one place.

However, I agree with your points, the people out there are the same people I’m following in their blogs via RSS in my reader or their twitter streams. And the real interesting thing is most of those people are top bloggers, host their own installs and have a very robust site that packages up all of their streams anyway in their sidebars.

So in all this is just bundling it up nicely. There is a long way to go in extracting commercial value from the data. And quite honestly, anyone can be competitive there and do that just by pulling the RSS feeds in from various locations.

Time will tell as always. In the meantime, I have yet another site to look into and see who is connecting with me and who I would like to connect with.

And finally, why do I continue to want to call this new toy FeedFriend?

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