Comments on: Why have I been neglecting Friendfeed!?

By: User links about "hardaway" on iLinkShare

User links about "hardaway" on iLinkShare — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:48:30 +0000

[...] votesHardaway : Mourning : Brown :: Wade : O’Neal : Haslem>> saved by Zed68 30 days ago5 votesRobert Scoble: Why have I been neglecting Friendfeed!? (via Google…>> saved by fivefires 31 days ago2 votesBecause We Need it NOW>> saved by steven 32 days ago3 [...]

By: KyleLacy.com » Blog Archive » Why am I Neglecting FriendFeed? The Rebirth.

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:31:38 +0000

[...] I wrote about my neglect of FriendFeed. I had been having issues with using the platform and spending time on the site. When I first joined [...]

By: Beating those early adopter blues — Andy DeSoto

Beating those early adopter blues — Andy DeSoto — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:51:00 +0000

[...] high-profile FriendFeed users have swept through the blogosphere: social media blogger Kyle Lacy wrote a post in which he admitted, “I’ve [been] burned out on the overload of constant use for a [...]

By: FriendFeed: Hotter Than Ever Or Starting To Fade? (POLL) | Techno Portal

FriendFeed: Hotter Than Ever Or Starting To Fade? (POLL) | Techno Portal — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:16:08 +0000

[...] the king of early adopters himself, Robert Scoble, sharing a post in Google Reader entitled “Why Have I Been Neglecting FriendFeed?” by Kyle Lacy. In the post, Lacy cites information overload, burnout, and increased work [...]

By: Kevin Makice

Kevin Makice — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:51:49 +0000

Congrats on the mention in Read/Write/Web!

My running joke is that, whenever a system crashes unexpectedly, to threaten to move those functions to FriendFeed. That was the May-June frenzy from a number of active users of Twitter. I already had my account, but I just don’t have a call to use it. The great Duct Tape tool to import Twitter users only got me about 10% of the people I follow there, so network is a big obstacle to any switch.

More importantly, FriendFeed is an inherently different beast than Twitter. I like the ability (now mimicked by Facebook and Kwippy, another interesting tool) to carry on a conversation thread on a particular item. Too much conversation can drown a Twitter stream, so I was happy to see the heavy conversationalists head to FriendFeed for their back-and-forth. Twitter is mostly about simplicity and low barriers. It is much easier to talk someone into trying Twitter than FriendFeed, particularly those not used to blogging or a Facebook culture. FF is overwhelming, even with the filters.

I get my daily email and respond to friend requests, and that’s about all I do with FriendFeed.

By: Lorraine Ball

Lorraine Ball — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:05:05 +0000

I use the hide function to elminate some of the noise, and tend to go to individual pages of people I am following.

The challenge, many of the people I want to touch are not on Friend Feed, so I have to go back to Twitter, and other sites to connect with them.

By: Pazzer1

Pazzer1 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:44:36 +0000

Agree about the lack of true chronological view and have already posted the need to FFeed.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:06:05 +0000

I think the issue is noise. I am confident that more options will be deployed in the way of filtering (noiseriver is already working on this, and I am sure the FF guys are too.) – and flexible filtering will really make a difference. The key is to enable discovery while also managing a signal:noise:discovery ratio that feels right to you.

By: Nichole

Nichole — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:13:11 +0000

I just recently discovered FriendFeed. I think it’s pretty swank because it filters all my stuff into my Twitter: my blogs, YouTube, de.licio.us, vi.sualize.us and other such things. Pretty much the only thing I use it for though, and that in itself is pretty handy.