FriendFeed - Top 10 Reasons to Stick With FriendFeed

Mommy, I Don’t Wanna Go Anywhere Else! See before and after shots of TOS The reward, the reward It’s the tightest community I’ve seen, just about It simply can never be unstuck.  Too sticky! I needed that blank space where my embed was. Random Facebook content in my FriendFeed embeds could be so entertaining, so serendipitous The R&D could still show up here, before it does anywhere FriendFeed is a friend indeed.  I have the need. Do I really need a reason?

The nicefishfilms interview with Scoble et al provided good insight into the scenario, the enthusiasm, the reasons why FF made such an impact. FaceBook’s app universe is so robust and deep and open to coders it’s going to be a very difficult one to match by anyone. FriendFeed wasn’t necessarily about that out of the gate–it apparently was moving in that direction, but there are only so many resources to make that happen alongside its brilliant piece of web poetry. And the upside with this acquisition is infinite. FriendFeed gets to contribute to that, bring blindingly fast innovation to that community. I’m faithful that we’ll see the benefits within the FriendFeed interface and embed system, that it won’t go away.

I mentioned to my wife–who’s on her way to DevLink– this morning how amazed I was that Mr. Buchheit was present (not to mention the other stellar folks), that I could get a glimpse into his thinking, what he sees as something that matters; that he was at least virtually there, this master, this key creative force in the maturing of this living, breathing internet.  It’s a privilege.  It’s going to keep going.  I know it.

In thinking about what’s incredible in this online paradigm, we are sharing our knowledge, and hopefully our friendship, and hopefully there’s good karma with it.  We syndicate ourselves, our thoughts.  We have control over where to share, how much to share–and it will continue to be refined.  I was more than stoked at how FriendFeed took this syndication to the next levels, beyond what any of us thought was possible.  These are tools to help us spread, it is hoped, good words, and exchange anywhere we wish to in this vast, amazing virtual world in which we work and play.  The great minds and creative forces that made FriendFeed such a fantastic tool will be present and continuing to create.  I’m staying tuned, that is for sure.

Thought I’d head into a little reading this morning, via my iGoogle setup. Fished around, read a great Frida Kahlo quote via a Motivational Quotes gadget (you’ll need to have iGoogle). Then headed to the Scobleizer feed. In the midst of his recommendation to “turn off the internet”, he linked to a site called twittervision. If there’s anyone whose links I check out, it’s Mr. Scoble.

You could call it a glorified chat room if you’d like, a pointless exercise in assembling feeds, or tweets if you will; but this is an amazing work of technology. A very quick page source view revealed a bunch of javascript links. I was thinking it might be flash (there’s a 3-d view that is Flash, but it appears that “Classic View” is a google maps call). Too funny to call this “classic”. I thought classic meant 25 years old. Tell me this is 25 years old! <lol>

Well, I’ve got to check out more tweets. Hey, it may be easy to impress me–this blows me away. MegaMashup. OK, real work to do now.