Comments on: The Void Left by FriendFeed

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:54:41 +0000

Gracias hermanito. De hecho tenía un mes sin escribir, por razones obvias, pero ya regreso y con más ganas. Qué bueno tenerte como lector. Abrazos!

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:53:12 +0000

Thanks for your kind words, Paul. We’ll see what happens with FriendFeed in the coming days and months.

By: Luiti

Luiti — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:23:32 +0000

Que bueno que escribiste! tenías tiempo que no lo hacías. Felicidades. Según entendí en el post, han salido a la luz un sin fin de herramientas pero a pesar de gustarte en un principio algunas de ellas, con el tiempo te das cuenta que te quedas con la inicial. A mí me pasa lo mismo con muchas herramientas que salen para cosas mas vanales como microblogging e instant messaging. Siempre me regreso a lo clásico.

Un abrazo! Espero leer mas de ti!
Tu hermanito menor!

By: Paul McCord

Paul McCord — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:15:44 +0000

I have to agree with you. Friendfeed’s immediate response time has not been matched by anyone. Google Buzz is still lacking and may get better with time. Right now it seems that more people are on Facebook and Twitter than anyplace else. I hope the Friendfeed people can get Facebook to work like Friendfeed since most people I know are there already. It is getting closer but not there yet.

Anyway, thanks for the post. It was very well written and exactly how I feel about the situation.

By: Jorge Escobar

Jorge Escobar — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:37:27 +0000

That is the beautiful thing about FriendFeed. You just need to put time into the system (definitely more than an hour per day), get to know the community and you have a blast. With the other tools (including Buzz) no matter what you do, you’re still a nobody and your posts just go down the drain.

By: DGentry

DGentry — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:10:55 +0000

“…golden time of FriendFeed, when you posted anything, and you immediately got feedback, amazing comments and different points of view.”

For me, that never happened. I have been on friendfeed for two years. During its “golden time” I was using the site for about an hour a day, in the evenings Pacific time. Friendfeed had what was essentially a step function: if you participated _a_ _lot_, you would get interaction in droves. If you “only” participated for an hour a day, you were talking to a wall. I don’t mean just on my own threads: I’d comment on threads of other regulars, and be ignored as my name wasn’t recognized. In most activities an hour a day is a high level of commitment, but friendfeed demanded more.

Friendfeed’s algorithm is biased differently than Buzz, but it is biased. It favors activity, rewarding those who spend more time on the service to an extent that I found disproportionate.

I still spend some time on friendfeed, but I’m using Buzz more and more.