Comments on: Blame FriendFeed

By: It’s about Elgg today | Running in parallel

It’s about Elgg today | Running in parallel — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:17:40 +0000

[...] am finding the whole FriendFeed / Twitter slaying debate boring – who really cares. Twitter is growing in leaps and bounds and [...]

By: Robert Scoble and Scott Bourne have a quick discussion about Web 2.0! | Josh Chandler's Blog

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:59:09 +0000

[...] Bourne and Robert Scoble to reconcile their differences over recent comments made from Bourne about Scoble’s involvement with Friendfeed and whether he was getting paid for the continous mentions on [...]

By: WinExtra - WARNING! WARNING! Gillmor off his meds

WinExtra - WARNING! WARNING! Gillmor off his meds — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:01:33 +0000

[...] coming from out in left field but never have a I seen one so unexplainably whacked out as Steve Gillmor’s post over on TechCrunch where he appears to be blaming Twitter’s problems right at the feet of FriendFeed. I say [...]

By: Internet Marketing » Blog Archive » Talking Back to Your Customers — The Web 2.0 Way

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:49:28 +0000

[...] has been getting a ton of complaints lately that stemmed from them having downtime and not adequately reporting the issues or keeping [...]

By: The Click2Map™ Blog » Blog Archive » SMBs’ Confusion with Online Social Promotion Tools

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:48:55 +0000

[...] Scoble gaming the system by being omnipresent on Friendfeed? Is Friendfeed gaming the system by sucking up all of Twitter’s juice? Let’s not get too excited [...]

By: Weekend Reader - javascript, friendfeed, google, lifehacks, web2.0 « // Internet Duct Tape

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:33:36 +0000

[...] [FRIENDFEED] Blame FriendFeed, techcrunch.com [...]

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:41:10 +0000

I want some of that wacky tobaccy too, Steve.

By: KRZ9000

KRZ9000 — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:20:13 +0000

lol the author seems to have issues

By: seeb

seeb — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:08:45 +0000

lost me on most of that post. was all over the place

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Glory to our dead soliders

Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Glory to our dead soliders — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:05:33 +0000

[...] I don’t blame FriendFeed - I actually like it -though I don’t do it. I have real work to do - I don’t play around much. [...]

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:43:48 +0000

I’ll breathe when I’m dead

By: Ken Stewart

Ken Stewart — Tue, 27 May 2008 03:41:16 +0000

Breathe, man! You crack me up, but breathe!

By: Miles Long

Miles Long — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:18:14 +0000

Made no sense at all. Sloppy writing.

Not to digress but man does Seesmic ever suck!

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:28:49 +0000

I will admit, the only reason Steve’s posts make sense to me is because I listen to the Gillmor Gang.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:52:26 +0000

I’m not a fan of “that sucked” comments, they’re transparently self-aggrandizing (ooo, thousands of people will see I thought that sucked!). But really this post made no sense to me, I have to admit.

By: Dave Levine

Dave Levine — Mon, 26 May 2008 01:00:57 +0000

As a relative newcomer to this conversation, I must say that the passions are running a bit high for the stakes here in the comments…

I thought this was an interesting piece. It cuts to the heart of open-source project development: services build up in a co-dependent fashion, and if we are judging winners and losers in dollars and cents this has the potential to create tensions if not downright problems.

IMHO, FriendFeed is a step in the right direction but ultimately something more like Flock or Facebook w/twitter integration will dominate because they have more mainstream appeal.

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:27:25 +0000

OMG I was amazed to see which comment Gabe was referring to. Gabe - you are the winner of this year’s Idiot Wind Award. And what, pray tell, are you doing with your time?

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:39:34 +0000

rofl, I’m going to save Gabe’s bitchslap, for later use against trolls. There should be a Pulitzer for troll flaming.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:46:14 +0000

@34 Your own understanding of plain English is tenuous at best. Idiocy and ignorance are not the same thing.

Gillmor makes a valid (albeit trite) point, but he does so in a way that could only be entertaining to a small set of tech news uber-dorks to whom Twitter is tantamount to having a life. Very few people, even among the geeky, are interested in descending to this level of minutiae over what is essentially just a fad in the echo-chamber.

I’m glad your mastery of the subject matter can give your self-esteem a little temporary boost, but most people have better things to do with their lives. Your insecurity and vitriol are irritating and really rather sad. You are the one who should keep your mouth shut.

By: links for 2008-05-25 « 個人的な雑記

links for 2008-05-25 « 個人的な雑記 — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:34:22 +0000

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By: Nick Berg

Nick Berg — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:07:02 +0000

Why don’t all of you get “TWITTER” tattooed on your penis so that when you masturbate you’ll be jerking off to Twitter?

By: martin

martin — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:04:42 +0000

well, if Web 2.0 is a party (and TechCrunch seemed to prove this from the start) — this is one of the most enjoyable party conversations i’ve read. thank you, Steve, for starting this. so much intellectual fun. and basically you seem to be right too (although i don’t get the techie stuff).

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:03:18 +0000

This piece is anti-journalism. It is written in a way that if you understand the topic, it makes perfect sense and the cultural references are amusing. If you do not understand what Steve is talking about, you are lost.

I do not claim to be an expert, however I think the underlying problem is APIs that present themselves as push, but are implemented as pull. If you have a pull API and want it to look like push, you have to poll. If you want to be up to the minute you have to poll frequently which can kill the server you are polling.

This problem goes back to RSS, however RSS has a mechanism for saying how often you can poll and be polite.

By: kevin gao

kevin gao — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:42:23 +0000

i’m sorry - but this is not helping you guys move at all to the broad, non-techie audience that is so highly sought after. i appreciate your effort, steve, and with some research and rereading i’d understand most of it…but that’s not what i’m here to do. i’m here to learn technology + current events, and it’s hard to do both with what you’re writing

By: Marc Savoy

Marc Savoy — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:08:08 +0000

The comments to this post have run from one polar-opposite end of the
emotional, web-philosophy spectrum to the other and it seems that whatever
rectitude ‘Blame Friendfeed’ merits will remain a hotly-contested issue.

Nevertheless, kudos to you for having the testicular fortitude to take on the esteemed coterie of digital luminaries in the take-no-prisoners manner in
which you did.