{"id":2493,"date":"2008-05-20T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T19:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/some-conversations-have-shifted-to-friendfeed\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T03:04:09","slug":"some-conversations-have-shifted-to-friendfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/some-conversations-have-shifted-to-friendfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Conversations have shifted to Friendfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friendfeed aggregates your friends social activities<\/strong>
\nAs if Twitter wasn’t enough, I’m seeing a surge of usage on Friendfeed<\/a>, and it’s worth watching. Friendfeed is an aggregator of lifestreams. <\/p>\n

Understanding Lifestreams<\/strong>
\nWhat’s a lifestream? It pulls all your friends social media activities (from twitter, flickr, blogs, facebook, and anything else with RSS) onto one page. In addition to the aggregation, there’s a robust commenting system where people are able to leave comments, post comments up to 2000 characters (see my test<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Twitter downtime spurring Friendfeed growth<\/strong>
\nNow many are starting to suggest this is a twitter-killer, but in reality it’s not, unless the downtime continues (Twitter was down 37 hours, Jan-April 08, the most of any social network<\/a>). Twitter is one of the many tributaries that makes up one’s publishing stream, and Friendfeed simply aggregates them all. <\/p>\n

Filtering tools<\/strong>
\nIn the end, the noise on Friendfeed could be far greater than Twitter, in addition to tweets, you’ll be seeing other high frequency conversations occur and updates. Update: Louis Gray has a how-to guide on how to use the ‘hide’ feature to filter content<\/a>. It looks like Friendfeed does elevate the most active discussions to the top of a page (I noticed this on my page) so it looks like it will do some filtering.<\/p>\n

Future of Content: Amorphous and Ubiquitous<\/strong>
\nIn the future, expect content to continue to separate from the website platforms they first originated on, content continues to become amorphous and read and written off domain.
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\nNetwork with other Friendfeed users: leave handle in comments<\/strong>
\nIf you want to Network with others, leave your Friendfeed handle below in the comments, mine is jowyang<\/a>. I recommend you don’t add your name if you don’t want to network with many folks.<\/p>\n

Update: Hmm, case in point: many are confused where to put their handle, as they’re seeing replicas of this same blog post over in Friendfeed<\/a>. Some say I created a cascade<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friendfeed aggregates your friends social activities As if Twitter wasn’t enough, I’m seeing a surge of usage on Friendfeed, and it’s worth watching. Friendfeed is an aggregator of lifestreams. Understanding Lifestreams What’s a lifestream? It pulls all your friends social media activities (from twitter, flickr, … Continue readingSome Conversations have shifted to Friendfeed<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}