I’ve been pretty quiet here on this blog for the last few days, and will continue to be. why? I’m seeing a shift in discussion over to Friendfeed, and will be sharing links of things that I see are interesting, engaging in conversations, and will “like” (indicating I find someone else’s content is interesting). While I’ll still continue to use tools like Twitter and my blog, I’ve noticed an increase in activity.
Friendfeed contains many of the social behaviors all on one platform, aside from aggregating content (you can see all my tweets, flickr, digg, upcoming, blogs on one stream) you yourself can be a creator, critic, collector, joiner, or spectator. (learn more about these from this presentation)
Similiar to Facebook’s newsfeed, the tool prioritizes what’s interesting in your network of friends, which I call a Micromeme (based off my interview with the CEO). Also, if you’re curious how brands will use Friendfeed, I’ve already made a prediction on how they’ll use it for collecting content from disparate sources –esp during an announcement.
You can find me at Friendfeed at Jowyang.
Update: Louis Gray suggests that I show off my discussion page, where you can see how I’ve reacted to particular items, both mine and others.
I would like to see some mutuality in those whose comments are commented upon and those who offer their comments. It seems pretty unidirectional at this point instead of circular or reciprocal.
There are some exceptions but FF seems more hierarchical to me than Twitter with a few leaders and a lot of followers. I’d like to see some of the talkers also become listeners/readers/commenters as well. Maybe more of this is occurring than I see but so far, I see very little. It might be built into the structure of the program, I don’t know. This one-way conversation format makes it unappealing to me. I see more bloggers commenting upon comments than on FF.
It’s already a one-sided broadcasting medium, which means any brand looking to take advantage of such, will end up in the same place as all the bland marketing-copy fake blogs, that is to say, a spectacular failure.
Just need to dust off the early 1960s heyday advertising/demographics era, as chasing faddish geek toys will get you nowhere, don’t fall for that “influential” pick-up line, stick with and overall strategy, wade in only when the sun’s already out.