FriendFeed, the popular social network feed aggregator, has released a new version of its site that has been optimized for the iPhone. While FriendFeed has always featured a relatively spartan design, the standard version sports small fonts that make text difficult to read on the iPhone’s screen. The new version has increased the font size, and has further tweaked link placement and picture sizes to make the site more accessible to mobile users.
The site also includes a new “Post photos from your phone” link that will let users submit photos to FriendFeed straight from their iPhone. Each user is assigned a unique email address (something like jason+nota483realone@mail2ff.com). To submit a picture, users simply send photos chosen from the iPhone’s integrated photo viewer to the assigned address. The feature works well, but you’ll need to manually enter the obfuscated email address - there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to save it to your address book.
You can read more details at the the official announcement here.
We’re working on an easier way to get the remote-key-encoded email address into your iPhone contacts and should have something better out within a couple days. We’re glad you like it!
The Twitter-killer is making all the right moves
I was already starting one of these…
http://ff.dustindiaz.com
It’s good for read-only now (good for the bus ride)… but I imagine the FriendFeed team themselves will do a better job of coalescing the results since they have direct access to their own database… the API doesn’t give you an easy way to do this.
I find FriendFeed still a bit overwhelming and prefer the simplicity of twitter… I might get used to it though.
Why does Facebook allow these guys to suck up their data?
Now all we need is something for the blackberry.
I think most Twitters users are not ready for friendfeed.
The beautiy of twitter when it is functioning that is, is that it is clean fast and simple and doesnt steal your time. Friendfeed demands too much attention from me. I havnt got that sort of time to give. I dont want conversations that dowzens of replies come in all the time .
I agree with Peter and Shane. Twitter doesn’t require as much attention as Friendfeed, find it much more friendly to use.
I agree with Shane and Chris. I want minimal, mobile friendly, simple… I want Twitter to *work*. It IS cool that FF is iPhone friendly now, but I use it differently than Twitter and I’m ready for Twitter to step up.
@kevin fox
You’ve probably already figure this out, but by sending an email to the user from their obfuscated address they can easily add it to their contacts.
Agree!
First, there was TechCrunch. Then, there was FaceCrunch. And finally, there is FriendCrunch. All hail.
Now all FriendFeed has to do is convince all of the Twitter users that FriendFeed is better and they’ll be on their way to taking over the world (but that won’t happen so I won’t worry about it). FriendFeed is an aggregation service and that is all that it does well, nothing else.
Wow.., atlast now we can have our favorite feeds on our favorite phone Apple iPhone
MojiPage (http://mojipage.com) was the first to launch a FriendFeed mobile widget, but many have found that the dedicated mobile site http://fftogo.com created by Benjamin Golub works suits them better. This has been the top 5 requested features in FF for a long time, and it’s good to finally see it implemented.
Incidentally, for the Twitter XMPP addicts, MojiPage has created a XMPP/Jabber/GTalk bot that streams your FriendFeed to your IM, and allows you to post to FriendFeed as well. http://mojipage.com/pages/bot/